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What's the Best Non-Alcoholic Alternative to an Ice Cold Beer at the End of the Day?
  • Have you tried any non alcoholic beers? Some aren’t terrible but not sure if there are any that are fruity though.

  • 12 reasons to stop using Goodreads - selected by Goodreads staff
  • I’ve moved away from GR over to StoryGraph for the most part. Found it suits my use case quite well.

  • Something I've been curious about
  • I’d assume social media promotion is a big one. I also found some authors through kindle unlimited years back that I now follow.

  • I like programming.dev and what's happening on my "local" instance, but once i check of what's happening in the wild (other instances) I am reluctant to recommend lemmy to others.
  • I hit All occasionally to see if there’s a community that catches my eye, it’s rare but it does happen so I’ll subscribe.

    I also block the ones I have absolutely zero interest in ever seeing again. It’s simple to do.

  • What are you currently reading?
  • Not sure I have a favorite really, but I tend to enjoy the chapters that follow Perrin or Matt more than the other parts of the books.

    In general, I’m enjoying all the books so far though, reading them straight through.

  • What are you currently reading?
  • The Path of Daggers, book 8 of Wheel of Time. I’m maybe 4 or 5 chapters in so got a ways to go.

  • Hoopla, Overdrive/Libby Now Banned for Those Under 18 in Mississippi
  • These laws are disgusting. The only silver lining is that, at least for digital items, the resources can be found outside of libraries fairly easily from sources that don't require age verification.

  • FYI: Lemmy.world and other instances were hacked. Beehaw.org took itself down to mitigate risks
  • Security is crazy hard and having perfect security is impossible. Kudos to the dev team for resolving this so quickly.

  • Fork or Mirror existing git repository for a similar but different project?
  • If the changes in one app will never be pulled into the other, completely separated would probably be fine but I’d personally just fork it due to sheer laziness.

  • That's why no one with half a brain downloads the official Reddit app.
  • JFC. That's like a 3/5th screen advertisement with enough room for 1 fucking post. Might as well only show ads at that point.

  • What are you reading this week? [July 3-July 9, 2023]
  • I'm finishing up A Crown of Swords this evening.

  • Why Rust is easy
  • As someone learning Rust right now (reading through The Book and doing rustlings), most of the basic concepts have been straight forward and easily carried over from the languages I currently work with.

    However, as someone who hasn't touched c or c++ in the 20 years or so since university, the ownership stuff has made my brain hurt. That section in The Book has been a real slog for me and I've had go through that section several times now, but still haven't truly 'got it' yet.

    All that said, I do like the compiler helping ensure I'm writing good code and in that regards, I can see why the author says that Rust is easy. Instead of beating your head on a desk trying to track down some obscure bug, with Rust, there's a good chance it'll tell you where the bug is and why it won't let you compile (at least based on my beginner understanding).

  • Senior Devs in huge corps: Do you even code?
  • Most of my day as a Senior is wading through red tape and piecing together out of date internal documentation so the rest of my team doesn't have to deal with it. Maybe some coding, if I'm lucky these days.

  • Loeb cake
  • That’s a neat idea. Is the top edible?

  • meme
  • Heheh. Sometimes if it's getting close to going home time, but I just had an epiphany, I'll add comments to my code so I can remember my train of thought for the next day. Then I promptly forget to remove the comment after I add the code because I get pulled into some other 'emergency'.

  • Favourite NewWho doctor?
  • For me, I'd have to lean towards Peter Capaldi with probably Matt Smith and David Tennant a very close 2nd and 3rd.

    After watching the first season though, I do wish that Eccleston would have had more time as the Doctor. My first run through that season he didn't click with me, but after the 2nd or 3rd time through, I grew to have a certain appreciation for his style.

  • Looking for epic space operas
  • I really enjoyed Peter Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga (Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained) + The Void Trilogy which is in the same universe as the Commonwealth Saga books and features some of the same characters.

  • Welcome to C#!
  • ^ this. I was typing up a response that talked about @IAmTimCorey on youtube. Great source of all things dotnet.