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@justamoment I like that way, and personally follow something similar.
IMO it's OK to be opinionated, to respect differences. One example is with Operating Systems. Do you want to use Mac, Win, Ubuntu? That's OK. You say that ecosystem is better? Nice, enjoy it!
My curiosity goes on understanding the good, the bad and the ugly parts of the tech we use, and, why not? Having a great conversation with a beer or our favorite drink when it's more convenient to both. Calling is caring 🙂
@justamoment hehe, sorry... It happened once to me in my personal Ubuntu VPS and I couldn't even delete anything, ha!
And I'm watching that my grammar is awful in the last twts... 😅
I guess I'll have dinner first and then I'll switch off the phone for a while.
Enjoy over there!
But I think I'm too deep into controversial topics.
I guess I'll switch to more mundane topics for a while.
I watched Willow, a fun movie from the 80s. And finished recording a class about DRM and Piracy... Interesting Saturday here. How is going yours?
I was listening to a conversation about "fake it until you make it", based on the Theranos case. It's in Spanish, so it wouldn't be useful to be shared here, but the topic made think.
The idea topic is, don't lie. It's unsustainable. Avoid distorsion fields and "validation circles" when you trust what someone else trusted. Yeah, we have to manage the truth, and we have to know when someone is lying to us (pretty hard in some circles). It's not as easy as "never lie", so many due diligence on our beliefs is needed, even with risk of discovering the truth.
Reading that book about the Telegraph made me thing A LOT on the history of technology. Another book about history of power made me think on our short lifetime of, let's say 50 productive years, how much we can impact in society from what we currently are, to the future of society in 100 years.
Action and thinking... Progress, quality of life, a better world for our families, resources. Transcendence. These are things that have moved a lot of people for the last centuries.
I think the current life speed is faster than it should, but I guess that depends on our reference point.
@abucci I agree with that part, lying is wrong, although people like to live some lies, but that's another conversation.
I don't agree that automating a help line is completely wrong per se... We'll need to define lines on, at this right moment of humanity, what's "right, true, and such"
Something I don't agree with is polarization of "everything about this subject is wrong" "everything is amazing".
It's good to be opinionated, I respect different ideas (right or wrong). I prefer to say "Perhaps I'm wrong. Tell me more..."
@abucci perhaps I sound realistic... And yeah, realistically pessimistic. I'd like to know viable alternatives, not ideal but practical.
How are we going to stop it?
Like when social networks spread in humanity and we received warnings of its danger. We are using microblogging to talk about it, as we are going to use AI/ML more and more, but so slowly we are not going to perceive their inclusion in society. It's in our keyboard auto correct, our browsers, personal assistants, search engines... So, what can be done?
@abucci it's not gonna end... It's worth for some people, was predicted for the last few years and it's only going to be used more and more.
Like phones, GPS and navigation, flags memories, quantum computers, telecommunications...
It's even going to become the new "Gods" (citation needed).
I guess that's going to transform completely the way we think. So what's going to happen with people not likening it is, you know, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
@abucci it's really, really tricky.
If we dépend on a machine to automate a life saving procedure we may say it's fine, but automating a suicide prevention line is controversial when it _may_ actually help.
In medicine and science there is a lot of research, dark incentives and placebos in the name of progress... So, I don't know what to think. I've been reading that book _Bad blood_, and basically is, until a huge fraud happens, the law gets updated to prevent another case, and it's a never ending story...
#randomQuestionOfTheDay
>How has the Internet changed your life? For better and for worse
@abucci in a personal case, in 2022 I explored client certificates, (I can't recall who suggested that, it was you?).
I think it's amazing for corporates and perhaps power users. Anyway, I think it's too obscure for a normal employee who doesn't understand what's going on.
For something closer to the current Web experience I think Webauthn/Passkeys will be slightly simpler to use and to implement, due to the support of main OS and integrated security hardware in PCs and Phones. Or you can use a USB device which is closer to a "car key" being the physical aspect easier to understand than an abstract encryption technology IMO.
But as they say, why not both?
For some reason I couldn't sleep tonight (I think that strong coffee ☕ at dinner was a bad idea)
Anyway, it was a nice opportunity to settle my ideas for this year. After a few days of vacations, I could define more easily what to aim for, what to work for. My references are the Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Hierarchy of Hapiness as insights on things I might be overlooking. Like social relationships, relationship with money, belongings, impact with creativity, altruism, a learning path and so on.
My main realization (perhaps obvious but what can I say...) is that statistically I have about 30 years more of productive life. There is no rush, but at the same time I need those challenges to live a tasty present.
I'm grateful that this has been a pretty decent life, which is transforming into something new (damn mid-30s crisis). As they say, the best things are yet to come. Or at least, new challenges to overcome. And that's the hasty part of life.
For some reason I couldn't sleep tonight (I think that strong coffee ☕ at dinner was a bad idea)
Anyway, it was a nice opportunity to settle my ideas for this year. After a few days of vacations, I could define more easily what to aim for, what to work for. My references are the Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Hierarchy of Hapiness as insights on things I might be overlooking. Like social relationships, relationship with money, belongings, impact with creativity, altruism, a learning path and so on.
My main realization (perhaps obvious but what can I say...) is that statistically I have about 30 years more of productive life. There is no rush, but at the same time I need those challenges to live a tasty present.
I'm grateful that this has been a pretty decent life, which is transforming into something new (damn mid-30s crisis). As they say, the best things are yet to come. Or at least, new challenges to overcome. And that's the tasty part of life.
@abucci that's a great idea. A friend of mine made an extension that killed random tabs, but I don't recall the exact details.
I think killing the older tabs could be good enough, or randomly between tabs older than X days. Perhaps with the last 10 tabs, you would notice. IDK
What browser do you use? (Over here, Edge, Firefox, and Kiwi)
@prologic that's the answer. Now I try to close as many as I open, ha...
I think I moved to the extreme of "compulsive cleaning", but, hey, it works...
Since the popularization of browsers with tabs in 1999, that has been a problem for intelectual people, I think.
I'm trying to live a digital minimalism (whatever that means, I've had long conversations about the definition), and having at most 5 tabs open has been challenging to me, but I try.
I'm looking forward to a soft limit of, let's say, 7-10 tabs. If you get your screen full, you should receive a warning... More than 15-25 would be simply not allowed. It's against the interest of browsers designers (use it more), but I think there should be some extension for it.
Now I have those endless text files with hundreds of links, more like a black hole than a Reading list. I say also, the habit of cleaning your lists is as good as making it bigger.
Other useful habits are, trying to write more than reading, avoid looking for new links until you read or delete previous ones, and not subscribing to a new mailing list until I unsuscribe another. It has been a similar pain than to buy new clothes.
@prologic a game about finding Poker Texas hands with similar mechanics to Wordle (yellow is right suit or rank of the card, green is that you find the right card for each position)
#Pokle #180
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
poklegame.com
Talking about analytics 🤣
>"Don't compare your progress with others"
@abucci hmm, I don't think it's the "simplest possible" but a mix between the complexity of HTTPS and old fashioned simplicity of Gopher.
I think the goals defined here https://gemini.circumlunar.space are well achieved with that spec.
Sadly the TTS part is difficult to achieve on some retro devices and I think that's one of the reasons for Spartan.
@abucci hmm, I don't think it's the "simplest possible" but a mix between the complexity of HTTPS and the old fashioned simplicity of Gopher.
I think the goals defined here https://gemini.circumlunar.space are well achieved with that spec.
Sadly the TLS part is difficult to achieve on some retro devices and I think that's one of the reasons for Spartan.
@abucci hmm, I don't think it's the "simplest possible" but a mix between the complexity of HTTPS and old fashioned simplicity of Gopher.
I think the goals defined here https://gemini.circumlunar.space are well achieved with that spec.
Sadly the TLS part is difficult to achieve on some retro devices and I think that's one of the reasons for Spartan.
@abucci hmm, I don't think it's the "simplest possible" but a mix between the complexity of HTTPS and the old-fashioned simplicity of Gopher.
I'd say the goals defined here https://gemini.circumlunar.space are well achieved with that spec.
Sadly the TLS part is difficult to achieve on some retro devices and I suppose that's one of the reasons for Spartan.
@prologic I thought you weren't using Gemini nor Spartan, and I felt you didn't like the idea of these toy protocols.
Just for curiosity, has that changed this year?
@justamoment
>I’m not a fan of it myself but having at least a minimal insight should be helpful, what do you think?
It's been tricky for me. If I write for myself, I don't need that content to be public, but if I share it, I expect something from the audience. A discussion or a conversation is neat. A thank you is also welcome.
I've found that having numbers makes me leave projects since only a few people are watching them. I don't know... I switched from carrying about how many people are watching to "at least someone cares'.
I received this year a few comments and IM chats saying '**thanks**' for the free content. That's always _a breath of fresh air_ for the creator. I think that depends on your expectations.
@justamoment hmm...
Talking about Web sites, 20 years ago I used Web counters, then Google Analytics, FB Pixel, and many other indie stats systems. I think I had the Apache stats, then WordPress and such, but I wasn't excited by stats dashboards TBH.
Now I think visits are vanity metrics, even for commercial sites, so I rely more on interactions, emails received, replies, and such.
On https://text.eapl.mx I have nothing. No comments section, and no analytics whatsoever. I received a message every 1-2 months, and I think I had a few replies on Gemini (it's difficult to track, and I forgot to add the link in the article)
In my 'personal' podcast I have no stats, it's a handmade Atom file.
For the remaining podcasts hosted on YouTube and Anchor, I have from 20 plays/views up to 9k for some specific topics (mostly design ones disguised as rants). And I think 120 subscribers.
Screenshot of https://poleclock.com
@prologic as usual I'd start with definitions. What you understand by _censorship_ due to your environment is different than my definition.
So I usually have a glossary in the organization. The basics, what, how and why are we going to moderate...
@prologic I always wanted a few of these
AA batteries with USB plug
But now cost wise I have some traditional NiCd chargers and batteries for the few devices without rechargeable batteries at home. Like the Xbox controller. Works well enough.
@prologic hey guys, I'm randomly joining the convo before breakfast.
The first thing I thought of was an invite system like lobste.rs... You cannot join randomly, but someone trusting you must invite you first.
I guess we discussed a few months ago the importance of moderation systems (people and tech), and having a 'clear' line of allowed content under the idea of _“in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.”_
So it's not easy, it requires a lot of resources and intent. What do you say?
There are a few strange things in Spanish that foreigners could find strange, like having silent letters, sounds depending on the following vowel, and so...
#languagesAreWeird
Español vs Français
Checking my notes, I find that there are as well a few strange traits in Spanish that foreigners could find counterintuitive, like having silent letters, sounds depending on the following vowel, and so...
#languagesAreWeird
Español vs Français
@lyse 🧐 wow... I didn't know that!
Coming from Spanish which has only 5 vowels and almost every time a syllable is read the same, learning German or French with many different pronunciations for the same letters, or as you say different meanings depending on their context has been mindblowing 🤯
@axodys yeah, it was one of the best movies I watched this year ✈️🧑✈️🎥🎬
@lyse 😆
I think I learnt more asking for a Kebap to some foreign who only knew German and his language, than in college. Being _useful_ things, not gender of random words.
Again, it's a balance between vocabulary and foundations and actual practice in the field.
**Current status**
Laying on bed, doing nothing.
Dog and I 'dying' of indigestion. (In fact, our dog visited the Vet, she received a lot of meds for the tummy)
#vacations #winterSeason
@abucci amazing links! 😀
And I got the paper, thanks for sharing! It's about 200 pages. Wow, that's a lot of knowledge.
It reminds me when I was learning piano. Yeah, I wanted to play the classics or the modern tunes, bu instead as my fingers where pathetic I had to practice with boring and monotone scores to build dexterity for my hands.
I think that's something similar with programming, language learning and such. And again, college gives no time for that.
More anecdotal evidence: I was 3 months in German at college, at the 1st semester, really stressful due to the scholarship. I learned nothing.
@justamoment yeah, the compromise between the essentials, or the foundation to build knowledge on top of it, is tricky.
And I also agree on teaching to do something realistic.
Currently I'm designing a course from scratch for C# and I'm constantly saying "don't validate this yet", don't preoptimize this now... We've known for years all that real software needs, but at the same time we have to 'lower' the implementation to the current level.
@sl1200 hola!
Como te va? Que tal has encontrado twtxt? Cualquier duda arróbame!
@prologic @marado congrats both! Every year is something worth to celebrate, IMO mariage ain't easy, but it's a nice compromise between love, growth and battles. I wish you many years more together.
@movq hehe, I can relate 😅
@prologic hey!
I've been a bit disconnected from here by a lot of preparatives, reunions with in-laws and eating as unhealthy as we could.
Today is the calm day here, so the usual, opening the remaining gifts, playing with those, wakening up late, and eating a bit more healthy.
Best wishes everyone!
@prologic hehe, yeah!
There are a lot of books on the subject such as https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4983932-10-000-hours
Now I think 10,000 is saying something like "more time that you'd expect of intended practice, multiplied by talent"
An interesting discussion I heard in a podcast, was that the expertise level grows _"logarithmically"_ (I think that's the right word). Learning from 0 to, let's say, 50% takes a year. 50-75% another year, and so. The last 95-99% takes decades of intense and purposeful practice.
@abucci sounds like a really interesting research! By any chance is that paper publicly available?
Not wanting to criticize anything on your paper or your numbers, and based on a book I'm reading, Factfulness, I'd like to know an average and also the standard deviation or a distribution graph on _time to learn to program from scratch_. Usually the average hides the diversity on the sample.
I've also found that, at least here, Computer Science or (Management of) Information Tecnologies are not related to creating or architecturing software, but on understanding and maintaining current ones.
Which is not that bad, you cannot create something if you don't know previous solutions or implementations... 🤔
Again, there is simply not enough time in 3-5 years of intense education to learn to 'program'
@justamoment as an university professor, I've found that classrooms are the worst place to learn to code, program or dev.
There is not enough time to personalize teaching, from the current knowledge every student has, up to the semester goals (usually standardized). People is stressed on learning a lot in a few months, throwing up everything into the exam, so usually that isn't meaningful and internalized learning which programing requires in the long term.
What has worked for me was to record short videos with step by step explanations, so the students can watch and rewind at their pace, and then we have office hours to explain anything the student didn't get.
Something like:
1. Watch how I do it
2. Try to repeat that
3. Try to do something different alone
4. You are by yourself now!
@justamoment hehe, not really but it's a great idea. I like the physics of bows, catapults, and the expansive effects of some weapons like shotguns.
In something more boring, I'm estimating dev times, and I needed to explain Standard deviations of time estimates, ha!
@justamoment hehe, not really but it's a great idea. I like the physics of bows, catapults, and the expansive effects of some weapons like shotguns.
In something more boring, I'm estimating dev times, and I needed to explain Standard deviations to time estimates, ha!
I'm writing a Game design proposal and I came to a topic I love
Accuracy vs Precision
@justamoment Well, it's a two-edged blade for me.
I knew of twtxt.net thanks to the twtxt spec (coming from Gemini). But I see how people could think "it's not the original spec, shouldn't be named twtxt"
@movq I've found A to be simpler (to me) unless I'm a monkey 🍌🐒 #kidding
@prologic you once told me in #xu4dh4q
>let’s remember that textual forms of communication sometimes don’t carry intent very well let alone emotion
I was grateful at that moment b/c I was personally engaged with someone I disagreed on their vision of the world and way to say things.
Perhaps you are being emotional to some random person (I don't know if it's a friend of yours) saying Yarn is a monopoly. Maybe is uninformed. Perhaps they doesn't want to change. It could be their way to cope with their boring life. IDK.
Yeah, it's frustrating when you do something with love, tender, spare time and it's rejected or receives bad adjectives. I've been there with games.
I could only say, take it from who it comes from. It's not easy when your head is hot, but a few days later it won't be a big deal.
@prologic you once told me in #xu4dh4q
>let’s remember that textual forms of communication sometimes don’t carry intent very well let alone emotion
I was grateful at that moment b/c I was personally engaged with someone I disagreed on their vision of the world and way to say things.
Perhaps you are being emotional to some random person (I don't know if it's a friend of yours) saying Yarn is a monopoly. Perhaps is uninformed. Perhaps they doesn't want to change. Perhaps is their way to cope with their life. IDK.
Yeah, it's frustrating when you do something with love, tender, spare time and it's rejected or receives bad adjectives. I've been there with games.
I could only say, take it from who it comes from.
@prologic you once told me
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>let’s remember that textual forms of communication sometimes don’t carry intent very well let alone emotion
I was grateful at that moment b/c I was personally engaged with someone I disagreed on their vision of the world.
Perhaps you are being emotional on some random person (I don't know if it's a friend of yours) saying Yarn is a monopoly. Perhaps is uninformed. Perhaps they doesn't want to change. Perhaps is their way to cope with their life. IDK.
Yeah, it's frustrating when you do something with love, tender, spare time and it's rejected or receives bad adjectives. I've been there with games.
I could only say, take it from who it comes from.
@prologic you once told me in #xu4dh4q
>let’s remember that textual forms of communication sometimes don’t carry intent very well let alone emotion
I was grateful at that moment b/c I was personally engaged with someone I disagreed on their vision of the world.
Perhaps you are being emotional to some random person (I don't know if it's a friend of yours) saying Yarn is a monopoly. Perhaps is uninformed. Perhaps they doesn't want to change. Perhaps is their way to cope with their life. IDK.
Yeah, it's frustrating when you do something with love, tender, spare time and it's rejected or receives bad adjectives. I've been there with games.
I could only say, take it from who it comes from.
@prologic you once told me in #xu4dh4q
>let’s remember that textual forms of communication sometimes don’t carry intent very well let alone emotion
I was grateful at that moment b/c I was personally engaged with someone I disagreed on their vision of the world and way to say things.
Perhaps you are being emotional to some random person (I don't know if it's a friend of yours) saying Yarn is a monopoly. Maybe is uninformed. Perhaps they doesn't want to change. It could be their way to cope with their boring life. IDK.
Yeah, it's frustrating when you do something with love, tender, spare time and it's rejected or receives bad adjectives. I've been there with games.
I could only say, take it from who it comes from.
@prologic you once told me in #xu4dh4q
>let’s remember that textual forms of communication sometimes don’t carry intent very well let alone emotion
I was grateful at that moment b/c I was personally engaged with someone I disagreed on their vision of the world.
Perhaps you are being emotional on some random person (I don't know if it's a friend of yours) saying Yarn is a monopoly. Perhaps is uninformed. Perhaps they doesn't want to change. Perhaps is their way to cope with their life. IDK.
Yeah, it's frustrating when you do something with love, tender, spare time and it's rejected or receives bad adjectives. I've been there with games.
I could only say, take it from who it comes from.
@marado well, I find that's a problem of leaving that open. Using should vs must. Leaves that to different interpretations.
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/twtxtfile.html
>A status should consist of up to 140 characters, longer status updates are technically possible but discouraged. twtxt will warn the user if a newly composed status update exceeds this limit, and it will also shorten incoming status updates by default.
@movq yeah, valid and worthy points. I personally agree on most.
Yarn.social at this moment is 3 things.
1. The convenience of the software, a web site, their front-end, the 'invisible backend', an incomplete mobile app. If I'd manage the twtxt file with any other software, for me at this moment I couldn't have conversations with you.
2. The interoperability with older txtwt files. For instance I can read here my twtxt.txt hand made raw file to see if it works. Almost no one replies there but I know it works.
3. The community, the stupid discussions, the learning, the meaningful experiences, Gitea. People behind a simple text file and micobrogging protocol.
So yeah, as projects grow they start to be attached to _a brand_, they create organizations, institutions, knowledge bases, rituals, and intangible things we don't feel attached to. There are a few anarchist people (as in skeptical of authority and seeking to abolish institutions) not wanting to follow rules, groups and such.
and very often it comes from people rather that tech or specs.
Could be something like
"I don't like ~prologic and/or I don't like yarn.social, I won't use that because I like things by my way"
It's stupid, I've felt that, and now I try to ignore it a bit, it's bad for our health to listen every feedback, IMO 🤷♂️
@mckinley 😆
No one using Yarn extensions, it seems
@prologic well, I think that's something coming along with fame from Yarn and freedom from them. Some people like to stay with simpler things even if they are obsolete, incompatible, and such. They has an option to not follow an improvement and to stay with the version 1.0 of the spec, and that's OK in my book.
I agree to disagree, even if I really like the extensions, let's say 1.1, not being able to communicate with people following forks or modern protocols. Their loss.
>Considering yourself a scientist is equivalent to putting a sign in a cupboard saying "this cupboard must be kept empty." Yes, strictly speaking, you're putting something in the cupboard, but not in the ordinary sense.
How open are you as a scientist?
http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
@abucci Only 7 days more! 🎄🎁🎅🎂⛄❄️☃️
@marado looks like a great guide. I'll bookmark it to check that later.
BTW, do you know a guide on how to create sustainable DRM free products? More aimed to creators.
@prologic damn, then I wish you a lot of patience. I've been on a few slow rehabs and I was very desperate. Perhaps it's for the best, to slow down a bit. Best wishes.
@marado didn't know about that holiday, interesting.
I don't like to be that radical with DRM, but having a DRM free option is always a requirement to me.
It would be interesting to write a bit about DRM free options and to make it convenient for creators and audiences to prefer DRM free products.
@marado didn't know about that holiday, interesting.
I don't like to be that radical with DRM, but having a DRM free option is always a requirement to me.
It would be interesting to write a bit about DRM free options and why is it convenient for creators and audiences to prefer DRM free products.
@prologic I agree on starting up again next year, I have a lot of overlapping videocalls, recordings and parties (posadas). Also most people here stars to receive relatives and prepare for winter parties so it's hard to sync times.
I was thinking on randomly opening a video chat room if anyone here wants to join, but this week I finished exhausted. Perhaps next week?
@prologic reading this story was wholesome. I think your daughter is lucky to have you 😊
I remember being a curious 6 years old kid in the 90s, learning QBasic with the tutorial included with Ms-Dos 6.22 (in Spanish, didn't know English yet, there were limited docs and books) precisely with that classic number guessing game. Later in elementary school they teached us GW-Basic and Logo.
Sadly I had no relatives interested in computing at that time. But they were supportive on that strange hobby. So I always remember that moment with pleasure.
@prologic reading this story was wholesome. I think your daughter is lucky to have you 😊
I remember being a curious 6 years old kid in the 90s, learning QBasic with the tutorial included with Ms-Dos 6.22 (in Spanish, didn't know English yet, so there were limited docs and books) precisely with that classic number guessing game. Later in elementary school they teached us GW-Basic and Logo.
Sadly I had no relatives interested in computing at that time. But they were supportive on that strange hobby. So I always remember that moment with pleasure.
@prologic reading this story was wholesome. I think your daughter is lucky to have you 😊
I remember being a curious 6 years old kid in the 90s, learning QBasic with the tutorial included with Ms-Dos 6.22 (in Spanish, didn't know English yet, so there were limited docs and books) precisely with that classic number guessing game. Later in elementary school they teached us GW-Basic and Logo.
Sadly I had no relatives interested in computing at that time. But they were supportive on that strange hobby. So I always remember that moment with please.
@prologic reading this story was wholesome. I think your daughter is lucky to have you 😊
I remember being a curious 6 years old kid in the 90s, learning QBasic with the tutorial included with Ms-Dos 6.22 (didn't know English yet, so there were limited docs and books) precisely with that classic number guessing game. Later in elementary school they teached us GW-Basic and Logo.
Sadly I had no relatives interested in computing at that time. But they were supportive on that strange hobby. So I always remember that moment with pleasure.
tl;dr Enjoy the discussion, be kind, be empathic, and choose your battles wisely 😁!
I'm having a few discussions with my Latin artist friends on Stable diffusion, automation disappearing jobs, inner fears, and such.
Rather than wasting time on social media, my idea is to learn, to get to a knowledge level of a 'better life' (whatever that is), or at least exercise a dialogue and perhaps a debate. Since everyone is discussing different reasons and motivations, this is a phrase I like to remind before the talk gets violent.
> Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives.
It's exciting to spend time discussing with strangers and with friends, which has happened for ages, even before the **Internet** TM. With due moderation is a good hobby, but that's the tricky part. Not getting engaged with an ideology showing our own weaknesses disguised as knowledge and beliefs.
This week has been crazy with the Workshop to design Board Games.
But it has been a pleasant surprise to see that many young people (even kids in elementary school) being creative in this media 😁
@justamoment hmmm... I learned C for microcontrollers (I loved it coming from assembler) something like 20 years ago.
But currently, I don't feel incentivized to do something interesting for PCs, and for microcontrollers they went to MicroPython and some others. I agree with @prologic says that is too low-level.
What I can suggest is reading _Head First C_, which has been a great starting point for new languages. They could take a look to pass the exam, I think
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-c/9781449335649/
@justamoment hmmm... I learned C for microcontrollers (I loved it coming from assembler) something like 20 years ago.
But currently, I don't feel incentivized to do something interesting for PCs, and for microcontrollers they went to MicroPython and some others. I agree with @prologic says that is too low-level.
What I can suggest is reading _Head First C_, which has been to me a good starting point for new languages. I think they could take a look to pass the exam
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-c/9781449335649/
I know a lot of tech engineers don't want to create stuff by programming, but more to give maintenance to current systems, and that's OK, but I tell my students, to at least try to pass this requisite.
@justamoment hmmm... I learned C for microcontrollers (I loved it coming from assembler) something like 20 years ago.
But currently, I don't feel incentivized to do something interesting for PCs, and for microcontrollers they went to MicroPython and some others. I agree with @prologic says that is too low-level.
What I can suggest is reading _Head First C_, which has been to me a good starting point for new languages. They could take a look to pass the exam, I think
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-c/9781449335649/
@justamoment hmmm... I learned C for microcontrollers (I loved it coming from assembler) something like 20 years ago.
But currently, I don't feel incentivized to do something interesting for PCs, and for microcontrollers they went to MicroPython and some others. I agree with @prologic says that is too low-level.
What I can suggest is reading _Head First C_, which has been to me a good starting point for new languages. I think they could take a look to pass the exam
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-c/9781449335649/
I know a lot of tech engineers don't want to create stuff by programming, but more to give maintenance to current systems, and that's OK
Although I tell my students "at least try to pass this requisite", it's gonna help to understand how programmers think.
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