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I can agree with this, mostly. More recently I’ve been trying to become aware of how much knowledge I’m encapsulating within functions, preferring to hide more stuff in them rather than less, and avoiding shallow functions that just, say, wrap a single line just passing along the arguments. I’ve realized over my career that I’d prefer a longer function that I can just read straight through rather than jump between a bunch of shallow functions trying to piece things together.

on Me_irl · c/me_irl · 20 pts · 12d

The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being.

— Karl Marx, Human Requirements and Division of Labour Under the Rule of Private Property

American cheese is “real” cheese, and it’s called a “process cheese,” not “processed cheese,” because process cheese is a culinary term for a cheese made from a mixture of cheeses. Also it melts so good because of a perfectly safe food additive called sodium citrate which just prevents the fat from separating.

I went to college for computer engineering, and what I learned in college has been pretty much entirely irrelevant to my self-hosting hobby. That said, there’s a ton to learn. The good news is that all the information on this stuff is available online for free, you’ve just got to have a good search engine that doesn’t give you slop and you should spend a lot of time reading. That’s how I got into it.

Services like Yunohost are a great place to start, but setting them up will still take some searching if you’re a beginner. Generally you can find services anywhere on the spectrum between “one-click setup” and “bare metal machine you can customize to your heart’s content” so you can navigate that spectrum as you learn more. Just try to always be security-conscious, research the security ramifications of whatever you’re doing.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/asklemmy · 16 pts · 171d

There’s plenty of good stuff made by decent people out there, I’m fine with dropping someone awful. I also like to think it helps me avoid picking up bad behaviors or internalizing shitty ideas.