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< how did you start dev (for those who do)?

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~owleyarc

Yeah, server management can be a lot of fun (see also, reinstalling my OS all the time). And lol, I don't know about "can't help". I deal with `$EMPLOYER`SQL most days and I still can't remember more than a basic select statement without looking at the docs again. Speaking of UN/PW entering... my first internship in HS, total nepotism gig, my first day I was looking over the PHP codebase and was like "What are all these bind statements? That seems redundant." and removed them all, introducing like twenty SQL injection vulnerabilities. I would have felt worse about it, except my coworker who had years of experience approved the changes. And yeah, SomethingSQL is a good skill to have!

For me it was an after school club, so IDK what was a kit and what was random legos the school had. I do recall they had little IR communicators on the front and I could use that to cheat at the club's main event, robot fights, by making the other robot just back out of the ring.

And ooh, the CX16 project looks so cool! I can't wait.

Freelancing is hard, but I'm sure there's always someone around who need computer help with their website or something. But yeah, doing it for work takes a lot of the fun out of it, and since working fulltime, I'm no longer near as passionate of a hobbyist as I used to be.

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~tffb wrote (thread):

Yea, in regards to anything, be it MySQL, PHP, or even HTML syntax, I always have to look back at exactly HOW to implement such and such line of code, command, punctual specificity, etc. Computer SCIENCE, eh?

I never went into robotics, or had a very deep interest in it/them either, really. I guess I'm boring in that way, but I can see some moderate amusement in Lego'ing together a moving mini machine and having it "do stuff".

CX16 is probably the "coolest" of the hobbyist dev projects out there today. A boatload of compatibility and opportunity to be had with it. I look forward to getting one - likely sometime after I get a Color Maximite 2 Deluxe, as the CX16 will not be avail en masse for some time (even then, I could see it facing an "overwhelming (hobbyist) demand" issue not unlike that of PS5, only on a smaller scale). And before the CM2D, likely an Orange Pi 800, much like the Raspberry Pi 400 (a near clone/rip-off, in some ways) only the Orange Pi has more ports and a totally different co makes the board.

Stay good, ~owleyarc, and if ~bartender has a min, I'll take a 6:00 AM coffee.

Am I a Smol-Web-aholic if I come to Midnight Pub before sunrise?