I detest them. Some science YouTubers have begun using them too, and too often they’re either just cut from longer videos I’ve already seen - and hence wasting my time until I realise that - or they contain no explanation at all because of the length.

edlin or bust

And how is lichdom treating you? Have you raised an army of skeleton warriors yet?

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Kernighan & Ritchie, the C programming language. Yes it’s old, and about one specific language that you may never use. But it’s also very well written and can give good insight into how to tame computers. And it’s short.

Design Patterns by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides (the Gang of Four). Not so much a book to read as a reference with patterns to at least be aware of.

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I would agree if not for the flagrant grammatical error. That is a huge turnoff.

Ah Lemmy, downvoting an honest question. Daddy Reddit would be proud.

Upvoted to offset the stupidity.

I finished the Siege of Dragonspear and even Black Pits expansions of Baldur’s Gate 1, and have now started Baldur’s Gate 2 Shadows of Amn.

I’m not far in yet (chapter two) but already get the feeling this is much deeper and has many more options than the first game - which was already quite good. I think I’m going to like this one.

It’s also a very good introduction to programming, and just a good read. Probably the best book about programming I’ve ever read.

He was not lynched. Lynching implies killing. He was assaulted, yes, but not lynched.

Just generate the training material, duh.

Middelfart? :-D

Neeerd

Wait how does that work? Do the slots have some effect on the viscosity maybe?

“All 2 million”? I’m pretty sure there’s more federal workers than that.

It is important to know that these are books for computer scientists more than for software engineers. They are basically mathematics textbooks, about the mathematics of algorithms. They focus on proving theorems rather than implementing useful algorithms.

There is a book called concrete mathematics that is sort of an introduction to TAOCP. If you’re interested in the basics that may be a good place to start. It has a better title than TAOCP in that it explicitly mentions mathematics, but also an equally bad one because it’s very much theoretical rather than concrete.

Gen X: don’t quote the ancient piracy to me, Millennial. I was there for BBS and Napster.

I wish they would ban me. I haven’t logged in in over 15 years and even block several of their servers, and yet I still get mails that someone in there commented on something.