Why, a hexvex of course!
What they think these tip lines will give: “My professor is dangerously woke, he used someone’s pronouns today and is clearly some kind of terrorist”
What they’ll actually get: about 1000 variations of “This course is too hard; I shouldn’t have to attend the classes to pass”
Source: I teach at a university and we get a few if these every year; “ghosts” who think that paying a fee magically entitles them to a passing grade regardless of the quality of work they submit.
Agreed, so when are we getting clear glass doors, and can we take all these curtains down?
So, if your field appears instantly/imminently monetisable, then the private sector is an option. However, the wider benefits of your research are VERY unlikely to reach the wider public in your lifetime. Yes, you will basically be working to make someone else rich. However, this kind of grant is very likely to succeed in academic settings as universities love patents.
If you’re doing abstract or fundamental research, you’re pretty much out of luck - the private sector does not want anything to do with this. However, it’s little better in the academic sector because you have to spend almost all your time chasing grants, or teaching topics outside your expertise (i.e. the ones industry sees immediate value in) to survive.
In short, there is a lot of options to finish things (because everyone loves intellectual property as an asset), but very few to develop them (no-one likes to pay for the groundwork).
“I want to make the world a better place at no real benefit to myself”
“Ok, but only if you beg us for the money”
Modern academia in a nutshell
Fish eye is another
Edit: as are both the guy’s eyes
I already use geany as my main DE! It’s got a lot of great features, but it’s not really a notepad app.
Notepad++ is, at its heart, a text editor.
It’s lightweight, can run portably, and has some oddly specific but useful features such as dual window linked scrolling, syntax highlighting, and even allows regex for search/replace which is neat.
You can use it for coding (I use it for short python scripts), but that isn’t it’s main use.
VScode is, primarily, an IDE - not really something you use as a plain text editor.
For those who want to stick with Windows, Notepad++ is far superior anyway.
Oddly enough, Notepad++ doesn’t really have a full featured native Linux alternative (as of my last deep search around June 2025).
Ad allergy - when the API went I tried default and fled screaming into Lemmy pursued by 100 “hot singles” ads.
Good and evil are subjective - the idea behind “humans are a virus” is an implied negativity. Thus the counterexample mapping to a good virus ;)
https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/good-viruses-do
Not all viruses are evil, so it might hold up?
It’s risk vs harm:
Men suffer from higher risk (non-consensual alimony, scams, and catfishing (etc) are all too damn common) but lower harm (these are all nasty, but manageable if you look after yourself and follow basic safety).
Women suffer from lower risk (violent men are not as common as the media makes out) but much higher harm (sorry but dead or trapped in physical abuse trumps the lot, not much you can do to protect against these).
Psychology says the women are going to be a lot more cautious (we fear big losses with low odds more than small losses with high odds).
Gents, just take it on the nose that cautious ladies are playing a smart numbers game. Ladies, make sure to make it up to the gents later on in the relationship (we love chocolates too, especially the “sorry I suspected you of murder” kind).
Testing video should absolutely be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExZEUZsgH3w
Honestly, I think most tech CEO decisions are being made with crackgpt.
The rust part, if done well, would be a good step.
Then again, coding in rust is pain, and given how young it is AI is unlikely to manage well with it, and there isn’t the technical ability in rust present to fix what breaks.
Not Unix, but a good project selling stickers to fund it…
(Not open source, but pretty neat nonetheless)
Clearly they gave every last fuck they could about that code.
You would also get the best job title ever: “Chief Codebase Unfucker”