(Also are Programming socks memes welcome here?)
I used to own one less-feminine one, for the winters, but they became obsolete thanks to global warming.
I never knew about this until my non-programming partner asked what I thought about them.
I need to buy new once. But am boycotting USA so its hard finding some
I personally prefer programming barefoot, but then I also use GNOME.
How are you supposed to program without programming socks?
You’re not, it’s possible but you’ll have a really bad time.
Maybe good against programmers venous thrombosis. Should be acknowledged as a work related illness.
Eh, who is still using paper books to learn programming languages? Every popular language has a website with online manuals.
Well, except C, because it’s crammed together with C++ on https://cplusplus.com/ and https://cppreference.com/
And socks just grow organically after 3 years of coding.
I thought the books were for your shelf tbh. You put one for each language you claim proficiency in.
It’s cool to have niche older books though. My friend has a programming manual in Estonian from either the very late soviet era that includes BASIC, Pascal and FORTRAN. Though apparently you can still buy it online. There’s one copy left at an online bookstore.
The book is to get your monitor to an ergonomic height!
Only Winsocks.
Underrated joke.
Brainrot
What is “brainrot” about this image?
Wait, you think that wearing thigh high socks for fun is brainrot?
I don’t. Only black & white nail polish and light make up so far.
!unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone starter pack
Wheres the introduction to Rust, choker, skirt, Blahaj, and Thinkpad X220?
this comment genuinely reminded me that i need to both find my choker and finish installing linux on my x230t
Very good Thinkpad, especially with the classic keyboard mod and libreboot :3
I ought to make my own programming starter pack meme with all those things.
You jest but I unironically want one of the Thinkpads with a Snapdragon X (|Plus|Elite) to compile my Rust on.
Woah, I said an older Thinkpad. We dont talk about what Lenovo has done to the modern Thinkpad image (theyve dragged it through the mud). Eveyone knows the last good Thinkpad was the T480.
Their Thinkpad T’s and X’s still seem honestly good, it’s just that there’s many Thinkpad lines that are shit as well.
The problem is that even the T and X model Thinkpads have been chasing thin and light above build quality. They no longer have protective metal cages, the keyboard isn’t as good, and its bends/flexes (which makes sense considering its thin). I get thats the “modern” laptop design but I wish they went back to making massive laptops.
Ah, I thought those lines didn’t make those 'compromises". I’ll look into it, thanks!
Nearly every laptop OEM has been making comprimises, if you want a true classic Thinkpad style laptop (thats thick and has good build quality) the MNT Reform is the only option. Its massive, thick, has a mechanical keyboard, has an option for a trackball, and isnt particularly powerful (the Raspberry Pi CM5 is realistically the most powerful thing you can put in it).
I pulled on a str and unraveled my C socks!
Did socks replace rubber ducks?
If you have the socks you don’t need the ducks
Alright. I don’t get it
Ah. Ok. To each their own.
Weird that I haven’t heard about it until now tho. It’s been my experience that an uncomfortable about of software engineers are fairly conservative, but that’s more likely because of being in the Midwest.
:( I also had a bit of a culture shock when I started working, after being young and naive and assuming people interested in tech were progressive, and going to a public university for CS surrounded by other liberals.
See i didn’t have that experience. I come from a long line of electrical engineers, and went to a Catholic private university.
The EEs, save for my mother, are ultraconservative. So I knew what to expect. I went for computer engineering, so my first job out of college was in a contract design services company that was mostly old white men.
When I got into my current career, which became entirely software focused, I was surprised to see such an array of conservatives, but found many more progressives than previously.
What I have observed in my 12 years of career is that the conservative individuals are very rigid black and white thinkers. In fact, when my cousin was diagnosed with autism, my uncle remarked that it was pretty weird that every engineer he met seems to fall into that diagnosis. There was already a quiet joke in the family that what they now call Autism was what they called engineers in the 60s-80s.
That’s not to say autistic individuals are more likely to be conservative - but almost every conservative engineer I know falls right into this description. Interestingly, I know that ASD also has a large crossover with the LGBTQ+ community. It would make sense to me then, that this “programming socks” meme started.
It all seems to be based around who can accept change and who cannot. This, to me, explains why there are far more progressive programmers than conservative, and the opposite is true for other engineering fields.
that’s very interesting, thank you for sharing!
Programming socks provide a +2 programming skill buff. Their tight fit around the legs provides better blood flow through the legs which also means a better blood flow through the brain.
They also make you more cute :3
You can never have enough socks. Many a christmas goes by where again nobody gifts me a nice pair of socks. People always seem to think I am in need of more books to read!
(Hope I’m somewhat correctly recounting Dumbledore’s answer in relation to the mirror of Erised)
