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Why your voice sounds like Astarion's... 🤔

Hilariously enough this just solved several non-programming problems I have.

great video, but i dont fully understand how this can replace inheritance i am used to java, and il give an example of a data model in java - this is what minecraft does with entities they have a base entity class which is extended by non-living entites (such as dropped items) and also extended by a livingentity class which is extended by all of the types of living entities now i understand how these sort of types can be created, just using enums for all of the entity types - but i dont understand how you can replace the functionality within inheritance of being able to pass around an object as it's parent class and as its own class for example, there is a getEntities method on a world which can return all entities within the world in a collection and they are all given as type "Entity" - this allows you to get every entity and do something with them as if they were all just a normal entity class entity, but if you need the additional functionality of working with its actual type for its methods, you can check if it is of a specific type and if so cast it to that type (so you can go both backwards and forwards in inheritance between types). there will also be methods which could only return a LivingEntity, but because of inheritance they can still be casted to a normal entity or just use the normal entity methods directly i guess that you could have an entity implementation/struct with an enum for its type - but how do you manage the intermediary type (livingentity) and what if you only want to be able to pass around a specific type of entity, like if a function is specific to only returning or taking in a LivingEntityPlayer, i dont see how this is possible if everything is just an entity with composition and you cant backtrack to the original entity from its state values how would you achieve something similar without an OOP inheritance pattern? sorry if i overlooked something clear

I love Elliot

hii, i had tried nixos in the past. but the mirrors used for downloading packages were too slow since they might not be configured for my region. i know how to update my mirrors on arch. i couldn't figure out how to do it on nixos. I'd love some direction regarding this!

15:06 I think another common coping device must be cannabis. I use cannabis several times a day every single day, partly to help me fit in and be content about masking. It also helps me desensitize which can be a life saver when I am overwhelmed. Anyone else a daily cannabis user?

im trying this starting next weekend. I'm currently using vyvanse( 30mg per morning) and excited to see how it will affect the naps. will report back :).

The way you work, the reasons, the systems. I would think to myself, yup, that’s what I’d do (with different programming language). Them I see this, including “detail oriented thinking” (a.k.a. Bottom up), and all the work to understand my own mind up to recent and ongoing work with neuropsychologist and answered “but I need to understand (details…)”, quizzical looks by people around me for reading academic papers on neurodivergence related topics. I actually automate to the maximum because I have around the worst possible executive function and working memory that I’ve learned a few months ago, in my fourties. I constantly write things in Markdown, scripts to do things for me. (Like I see you’re doing). TDD and package publishing of modules written in isolation helps me sleep at night, config management for servers to do service self healing, and the ambition to do front end, backend, and sysadmin. Definitely ADHD (also learned later in life). Autism is a recent hypothesis. Thanks for this!

I wan an Arch fanboy and thought it was the best distro. I was always able to fix everything until recently. Certain sounds in games started stuttering, and Cyberpunk was glitching really bad when I would turn the camera. I tried everything to fix it and it annoyed me a lot so I installed NixOS on another drive and spent the last two days getting all of my old configs working. Felt like learning Linux all over again and it was painful and great at the same time. Now I'm a NixOS fanboy hah.

Hi, could you explain the Next: plugin/widget in your obsidian screenshot at 6:35? New to obsidian and trying to figure out a workflow similar to that

If you use GitHub just never forget it's owned by Microsoft and be ready to pull your project at any moment because they WILL do something to completely fuck it up like they do everything else. Mirror your uploads elsewhere and do not fucking trust them.

LMFAO!! Why are laptops so bad in comparison to the average desktop computer? The answer is simple - LOOK IN THE MIRROR - and the person in the mirror looking at you is the one that's always complaining that their 30oz. laptop is too heavy to carry and at 2ml. is way too thick.

Me living within the Arctic circle w narcolepsy 👁️👄👁️

I probably should eventually upgrade my desktop from 2015 hardware, but I instead bought a used ThinkPad P52 (2019) for a fraction of its MSRP and am very happy with its computing, especially running Linux. It’s cooling is impressive for a laptop and I used a dock. Still use the desktop for some games, though.

But where are the inking features

Made the decision to switch to linux when I was just 10, I got a special interest in operating systems so I started distrohopping all the way back then. Now I'm actually much more proficient with Linux than I am with Windows or MacOS. So, if 10 year old me can learn it, you can too.

It’s crazy how the arm cpus have refined the power usage and heat from mobile processors

I wish big chunky laptops were still the norm instead of everything turning into an ipad with a keyboard.

opinions on tiddlywiki?

You called it "oo-bun-two" instead of "oo-boon-two" how am I supposed to trust u?? 😭

Nice video! Lots of truths, but I did miss the mention of Framework😊

NiTe NiTe NiTe - Im in heaven.

Good luck against the Management Industrial Complex lads. Forza!

what do you think of using rust and WASM with HTMX versus using something like leptos? I'm interested in 3d web development with bevy in the browser and I'm having a difficult choosing where I should dedicate my time for the long haul.

been using it for the past 2 years every day.

BIG BRAIN

Needing a stand up to say your blocked is a sign that your developers are immature or lazy. Once you become blocked you should be immediately raising that awareness to your team leader or team via your chosen comms mechanism. This should be drummed into new hires. Too many times I have seen being blocked used as a down tools until the next standup.

PEBCAC is the biggest problem. Problem Exists Between Computer And Chair.

Laughs in 12700k

1:48 And this is where I stopped taking you seriously. So... you're claiming the M series chips aren't as good as Apple says because you tested out a prototype version of linux that isn't even close to being able to actually take advantage of the M series chips? Wow. This has the same energy as Apple fanboys going "Android is laggy junk!" and only having used cheap $50 android phones running Androdi 4.0 from Walmart or Aliexpress.

Ableton was probably the only reason i am still stuck on windows. Let me give bitwig a try

LinuxChad, is that you?

While im proud that i already figured all of this out on my own, i *really* wish someone had just told me of these things decades ago. It would have saved so much time

10:55 *"Remember kids, the difference between science, and screwing around, is writing it down!"* *God*, mythbusters was the best thing ever. I cannot thank Adam and the team enough for getting me into the right mindset from an early age

As much as i love your presentation style videos like these, the linux PC video, and the sleep schedule video are the reason i keep coming back. Programming is cool and but i am not familiar with that, even if i try to watch those videos too

Oh, I'm so glad I found this video! Obviously there are lots of videos about how to set up Obsidian, but you talking about DataView was exactly something I had been thinking about, setting up my vault! I was sure with a program as flexible as Obsidian and a userbase of so many data nerds, there would be a way to do something like this, and there is! And it's easy! Linear organization never works for me as well, so the ability to link and tag things and see how they're connected is really nice, but I do also love me a list, so I can see what I'm doing.

2:00 This doesn't really have much to do with this video, but this exemplifies the issue I've had for so many years whenever I've tried to learn coding. Let me show you what I see here: 1 1 error: expected one of ':', '@', or '|', found ')' 2 7 | fn hello(name) { 3 | ^ excepected one of ':', '@', or '|' 4 | 5 if this is a '[GIBBERISH]' [GIBBERISH], give it a [GIBBERISH]] name 6 | 7 7 | fn hello(self: name) { 8 | ++++ 9 | if this is a [GIBBERISH] name, give it a [GIBBERISH] 10 | 11 7 | fn hello(name: TypeName) { 12 | +++++++++ 13 | if this is a [GIBBERISH], explicitly ignore the [GIBBERISH] 14 | 15 7 | f hello(_: name) { 16 | ++ Every single time I've tried to find any resource, tutorial, guide, ANYTHING to learn any programming language it's just gibberish, gibberish, gibberish. Sometimes it's even gibberish presented in a way that makes it sound like the common meaning of the word, only for me to figure out a few sentences in that it's actually meant as programming gibberish. And it's never explained, you just get bombarded with gibberish after gibberish that you are somehow supposed to memorize despite it just being meaningless gibberish to you at that time. How am I supposed to remember something after it being mentioned once and then never explained at all or "explained" with more gibberish, creating a matryoshka doll of nested and branching gibberish being explained by more gibberish being explained by more gibberish being explained by more gibberish being explained by more gibberish . . . Every beginners guide or complete idiot's guide or video tutorial is the same. They don't go over the basic foundations, and what they present as the "basics" is actually at minimum of five branching steps away from the actual basics. It's like trying to learn a foreign language and every "utter beginner's" reasource for learning it assumes you already have a basic understanding of the language and its grammar, never explaining any of it. I have found a grand total of one, ONE, resource for learning ANY programming language that is actually any good. It's not even for a programming language I wanted to learn, but at least it's allowed me to get my foot in the door. That resource is Daniel Shiffman's (The Coding Train) tutorial video series for learning Java in the Processing environment. It's allowed me to get to the point that the issues I'm having come from me not understanding things correctly instead of it being because I just get gibberish thrown in my face.

Biggest problem with Laptops is Repairability. It is getting better but there are still too many Laptops with glued on parts with glued together cases. Desktops? Just swap stuff out.

The problem of Linux is that you have to cherry pick Linux-friendly hardware to have a smooth experience with it. Most hardware manufacturers, especially for peripherals, are not interested in making open source drivers. And sure, if you buy your whole setup with the intent of running Linux on it, that's not a problem, but most people already have stuff serving them perfectly well and don't want to have to buy a new one just to switch OS to another OS that will do the same job. Graphics cards aren't cheap, so you have a miserable experience with the subpar proprietary Nvidia driver on Linux and someone just tells you to buy AMD? I'm not gonna buy a new GPU because of the OS. You work with audio and you have an Universal Audio interface that not only offers perfectly good windows and mac support but also has an entire ecosystem of exclusive plugins? Well, it doesn't matter if you got good DAWs like reaper if you can't have proper support for your audio interface let alone your plugins. I imagine iLok plugins share the same fate. Of course, if all your tasks require only a computer and nothing more, and if all the software you need is on Linux, (like dev tools) then sure, it's great. And the problem with desktop PCs for devs is that in many companies you are supplied a laptop for work, and you have to use that because it's audited and whatnot. In other situations you simply don't have the space, or you just wanna be able to take your machine anywhere, work on the couch, on the living room, whatever. What I like to do is to have a beefy PC available to SSH into in case I really need 32 GB of ram and a hex-core desktop CPU, but do the actual work on a laptop. I prefer the form factor and honestly, they're just fast enough anyway.

Have you heard of anki? I've used it to learn japanese to a native level, and thanks to it and immersion in the language i know over 25k words and 3300 characters.

The reason I use a Laptop is simply space constraints and budget. I don't have the space on or beneath my desk and I don't have enough money every month. I need to eat every month and have electricity bills to pay. I really can't afford it.

Do you think you'll ever get to the point of making tutorial series for Rust (beginner course, APIs, CLIs/TUIs, full tech stack, games like roguelikes, etc.)? You make probably the most entertaining yet informative programming videos on the internet, and I'd be curious to see how tutorials made your way would go.

I'm in love with your content

Thank you, this literally gotten me back to my senses. I spent the last week contemplating if I should sell my Desktop that I invested on for another more powerful Laptop, because I will be going back to school and moving. In the long run, my Desktop pc is going to last me way longer than a small slow laptop with better specs. I do have a laptop I take with me everywhere, I guess I should just shift my perspective. I don't need portability that much. Do all my main work at my desktop and only use my laptop when I need to travel

There's only one thing holding me back from jumping into Linux. The Alienware Control Center. It might seem like a nit pick to most people, but I heavily rely on this piece of software. If anyone is able to offer me a good enough alternative to this, I'll remove windows from my laptop and install fedora within the hour.

I've run into an issue with NixOS. I install usuing the GUI, on a clean wipe, and everything seems to work find for the install. Problem is that my config file (and everything else) is "read-only," and I don't have admin privileges to edit the files, install packages, or change read/write pernissions. I've reinstalled thrice now, and Googled for hours at this point. Am I missing something stuoid ovvious during install? Am i just fundamentally misunderstanding something about how NixOS works and how to install software on it? Any help would be much appreciated.

For all of you interested in Linux, I’d suggest avoiding Ubuntu and using Arch. It’s a lot simpler to install things from the AUR rather than having to find the right repository that contains the thing you’re trying to install, Going through outdated guides, etc. Best of luck.