Yeah. Under a second to the launcher, and (just timed it) 6 seconds to load and run my existing world.
Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej’s Guides.
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Yeah. Under a second to the launcher, and (just timed it) 6 seconds to load and run my existing world.
I haven’t measured it, but I can tell I’m noticably slower on standard editors than Vim.
When I had to match against misspells I found Levenshtein distance to be most useful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance?wprov=sfla1
Really? Mine launches in a few seconds. Maybe I haven’t explored enough. 😁
I started using one of the userspace oom killers a while ago and have been much happier. Instead of the system becoming unresponsive, suddenly Slack just dies. It’s great.
I played quite a bit of solo mineclone2/voxelibre. Really good stuff with a surprisingly short wishlist on my part.
It’s silly, but one of my favorite things is that it fires up the launcher in under a second. Reminds me of when software wasn’t bloated halfway to hell. 😁
Was that sadometer correctly calibrated to NIST specifications?
On the last system I put together I used xfs because I was thinking ext4 development was waning. TBH I can’t really tell the difference in my regular usage.
Word on the street is that xfs sometimes corrupts files, but I’m not sure if that’s true anymore.
Maybe on the next system I’ll be back to ext4.
“Every dependency is an asset. Every dependency is a liability.”
Related: Internet Archive hosts zillions of abandoned games. Publishers are currently trying to sue it out of existence. They accept donations.
I always left it open-ended and that seemed to work. Part of the interview was seeing what they’d come up with. I’m pretty sure people always brought things they’d already written.
It never happened–since they knew in advance, they had time to whip up something cool if there wasn’t anything else. It didn’t have to be massive. I just wanted to see some clean non-trivial code and a clear understanding of how it worked. Fizzbuzz wouldn’t have impressed. :)
One of my classmates years ago loved bash. They wrote a filesystem for their OS class in Bash. It was a really, really impressive and bad idea.
But how do you handle candidates who say something like “look, there’s heaps of code that I’m proud of and would love to walk you through, but it’s all work I’ve done for past companies and don’t have access (or the legal right) to show you?”
It never once happened. They always knew in advance, so they could code something up if they felt like it.
I asked candidates to bring me some code they were proud of and teach me how it worked. Weeded out people really quickly and brought quality candidates to the top. On two separate occasions we hired devs with zero experience in the language or framework and they rocked it. Trythat with your coding interview, eh? 🙂
The double-edged sword of isolation.
On the one hand, poor communication between apps and waste of storage.
On the other, relative safety from malicious applications, or from otherwise-safe applications built on top of a thousand libraries none of which have been audited by the dev.
I don’t know how it’s going to go down, but I suspect something will come along to address these issues and snatch the market away from Flatpak.
Hadn’t tried it before, but went through the tutorial. Seems like a good editor; only modal editors for me, you know? :) I’ll probably stick with Vim for now, but it seems like something to watch.
No, they’re inside my home directory, alas.
This is the fun way. I have a ton of configuration files in git and I symlink to them from various places with an install script. And zshrc has enough brains to determine the OS it’s running under and the hostname. Between those two, I can have it do all the Right Things no matter what system it’s on. So far, it deploys to my personal Mac, my work Mac, my personal Linux box, my SDF account, and my Android phone with tmux.
Basically I clone the repo into .local/share/beejsys
and then run the install script and everything just works. And I don’t typically have to rerun the install script after a pull.
I don’t know the details behind it, but it sure takes its sweet time figuring it out. I’ve let it sit 20 minutes before giving up.