effakcuL's comments

This is hilarious to me, because for me it is exactly the other way around.

Just last Friday, some coworker showed me her mermaid diagrams about workflows at work. I am still not comfortable with needing to login to some website to convert some format into a useful format. If I cannot run it locally on my computer it doesn't exist for me. So I tried to install their official looking cli client.

The protocol from my memory roughly looks like this I npm install something, then it tells me I have to npx (wth is that? I think that is new) install something, which gives me some weird puppeteer permissions issue. If it is permissions I guess I have to be root for the install, I try a bit more and get nowhere the same issues keep happening. Look on their website, see they have a docker as an alternative, this is a pretty newly installed computer so I have to install docker, but which one? There is 3 options and I am not sure. I try to run their docker and mess up because I do not read the documentation correctly and I have to map the directory with my .mdd file with <my-dir>:/data and this was unintuitive to me so I ignored the first part and replaced /data with my path. Again obviously a mistake on my side, but it happens every time and adds to my confusion. I look into the docs again and find my mistake. I finally get a resulting svg from the docker command. Excitement! I open the svg and it lacks all the text and I think there were also errors in the shape. Then I remember obsidian has a mermaid plugin so I thought about trying that, but the obsidian install also fails with some random error about not being able to connect to chrome.

On the other hand whenever I get a cmake project I clone it. I create a folder for the build, cd into it, run cmake <path-to-source-folder> without even looking at the documentation and it either works or I get a pretty clear message what is missing on my OS and with a short web search I can just apt install it and try again (yes this sometimes has multiple rounds) and it works!

Tbh, one of the biggest issues with vim for me is, that all my coworkers do not use it. When I have to explain something to them, they are completely oblivious as to how they navigate vim without the mouse. So enabling mouse is one of the most important things for me

Have you tried ConqueGDB? It lets you start the GDB from within your vim session and uses your vim buffers to show the current file. I recently started using it and didn't really get into familiarizing with it yet, but it seems to integrate the gdb quite well. I am uncertain whether or not you can set breakpoints within the code though.

The cognitive systems lab at the university in bremen[1] ,germany does a lot of research in that field and I had the pleasure to visit them a few months ago. If you are interested you should find a lot of research on their homepage, ranging from regular speech to text, over silent speech (aka muscle movement to text) up to brain to text.

[1] https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/csl/

edit: small correction of my bad english :P

I think one of the best solutions to people like you, that studied gamedev and realized how horrible the field is, would be to go into robotics. I myself studied robotics and every time I read about game engines and similar stuff I am amazed about how similar those two fields are. Computer Vision and Computer Graphics are a lot of times quite similar, partly because they are the exact opposites of each other. The whole knowledge of quaternions and different Coordinate systems is essential for both fields. Path planning also does not change whether you do it for a 6-dof robot arm or for your troups running over the map (yes I know it kind of does due to different dimensions but the theory does not change).