Re: /usr/bin/tqdm in filesystem NOT owned by any package? (python tqdm)

2024-08-12 Thread Maxxcan Fox
Hello everyone I don't want to make this thread any longer on this subject. On the one hand, you are right those who say that we should not belittle anyone, and not fall into the "in my day people were prettier and smarter", but we can not ignore if because of erroneous educational systems now pe

Re: /usr/bin/tqdm in filesystem NOT owned by any package? (python tqdm)

2024-08-12 Thread Brian Thompson
Sorry, new email client. > It’s not as if it would replace proper programming; I have yet to see a > functional app built without code. Agreed.  I wasn't implying that it would. > The art of programming is problem solving, not coding. 100% agree. Best regards, Brian On Aug 12, 2024 at 10:03 AM -05

Re: /usr/bin/tqdm in filesystem NOT owned by any package? (python tqdm)

2024-08-12 Thread Brian Thompson
> “Anyone can code” is an educational statement so those who have potenial >  problem solving can learn it. Educational statement or not, it attracted a lot of mediocre people to the field. > If software development is reduced to button-clicking and YAMLmanifests, then > there's no incentive to l

Re: /usr/bin/tqdm in filesystem NOT owned by any package? (python tqdm)

2024-08-12 Thread Andy Pieters
I would like to share my perspective. The practice of programming by combining and building upon code that others have written is fundamental to the ethos of open source and collaboration in general, whether in public or private projects. It is not a mark against anyone that they haven’t written e

Re: /usr/bin/tqdm in filesystem NOT owned by any package? (python tqdm)

2024-08-12 Thread tippfehlr
Hi everyone, for one, this was a thread about an unmanaged file in /usr/bin but has evolved first to discussing supply-chain attacks and then to incompetent programmers. > "Anyone can code" is one of the most ridiculous statements so far this > millenia “Anyone can code” is an educational s