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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • This isn’t exactly answering your question, but one thing I see a lot of people get wrong is not knowing how to express what they’re trying to do. An example I recently ran into would be when I was trying to enforce that an input to a function is a child class of an abstract class. If you express the problem with the right vocab you won’t end up googling “how to make sure a variable is of the right type” and getting a different answer completely. I find that having taken classes and followed through books has helped me the most because the vocabulary to define my problem is ingrained in me. That’s what I’d recommend the most, is increasing exposure to concepts and vocab so that it doesn’t feel weird when you have to express a new problem.






  • I’m a lobotomy but I’m trying to figure out how to decouple. I wouldn’t classify privacy behavior as being some sort of purity scale, the way you seem to be. I still use proprietary apps, not because I want to, but because I necessarily have to due to a myriad of personal reasons where the time commitment to switch is larger than the current amount of free time I want to invest in it. It’s that simple.

    I understand that privacy is an angering issue, it is for me too, but its better to redirect that hatred towards the corporations and systems that want to remove privacy protections instead of a niche group of people that took one step in a set of many in their journey for their data privacy.