Brian @brianchau@qoto.org
C++/Python/Go dev, who mainly deals with counting bits and bytes, and making apps go vroom vroom.
@peterdrake That's amazing 😂
I still think about my classmate in my computer architecture class who forgot what TLB meant on an exam, so he told us afterward that he just wrote down "tomato, lettuce, bacon."
I wonder how he's doing.
In WSL2/Linux, here's how I would find a string of text in a file, and then open the file to look for the string.
The "-n" flag shows me the line number.
The nano flag "-c" is to show line numbers, and the "-ET4" part is to make pressing the tab button into 4 white spaces.
🏳️🌈🖖🏽
I don’t understand why people think Mastodon is difficult. It seems pretty straightforward, and the separate servers are no biggie. I’m enjoying this fresh start here, like moving to a new apartment!
To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.
(Please boost for reach)
@brianchau Definitely the Rust Book (https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/) and Rustlings (https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings). The borrow checker has gotten a lot easier to work with over the years, due to lots of great work by various people. The hardest part for most people, I think, is wrapping their heads around lifetimes/ownership, usually a completely new concept of memory management to most people.
Do you have any tips on how to best learn the language? I've used C++/Python/Go in my job, but I'm the only one I know who consistently uses the latter two at work, and I definitely don't know anyone who uses Rust 😅
This one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?
Check them out!
Facebook replacement: Friendica
Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
YouTube replacement: PeerTube
Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
Reddit replacement: Lemmy
Podcasting replacement: Castopod
GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm
I'm not sure how to do an #introduction, but I mainly do data processing from hardware, and general software automation for my coworkers.
I'm in a very tech-heavy workplace, but everyone focuses on their own specialty -- my specialty just happens to be getting other people's stuff done with as few steps as possible! (:
C++/Python/Go dev, who mainly deals with counting bits and bytes, and making apps go vroom vroom.
