waspentalive

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[–] waspentalive@beehaw.org 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

The mad rush to sell the sizzle, not the steak.

Wouldn't it be nice to have one company create a simple printer that just prints. It does not have a local webpage. It does not monitor your ink supplies. It does not phone home. It uses ink from bottles sold inexpensivly.

[–] waspentalive@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

The way gravity plating works is not given as far as I know, Perhaps the gravity generators simply alter the number of gravitons in an area of plating. Once that value is set it remains until changed again. A sudden power spike can cause the generators to withdraw the extra gravitons, as a result sometimes certain kinds of emergency can "turn off" gravity in an area of the ship.

[–] waspentalive@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If they overlap, aren't you in danger of having your company try to take over your passion project?

[–] waspentalive@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

I write programs for myself. I have learned enough C, Pascal, Fortran, Basic to write small things and even larger things like a visual file manager for MSDOS, or my own version of the venerable STAR TREK game. I even know of big O notation (But I don't know how to calculate it for a given algorithm)

But I never wanted to be a programmer - having to work on other people's programs 8 hours a day. That would ruin programming as a hobby. When I am self-directed it is fun.

I was a Data Center tech instead. Minding 3 football fields of other people's computers.

[–] waspentalive@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I use chatgpt to make up stuff, imagine things that don't exist for fun - like a 'pitch' for the next new Star Trek series, or to reword my much too succinct prose for a manual for a program I am writing ('Calcula' in gitlab) or ideas for a new kind of restaurant (The chef teaches you how to cook the meal you are about to eat) - but never have it code or ask it about facts, it makes them up just as easily as the stuff I just described.

[–] waspentalive@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

In before the XKCD reference!

[–] waspentalive@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago

Worf may be a badass, but there are many that are just badder than he is. But as the Jem Hadar guy said "I cannot defeat this man, I can only kill him".

[–] waspentalive@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

I also had to (under KDE)

  • Edit the settings for each of the folders in Dolphin (The file manager)

  • Edit the location of the desktop folder in the settings found by right-clicking the desktop and going into "Configure Desktop and Wallpaper" Location.

  • Edit the show item by choosing Custom Location, and adding the XDG directory for the desktop. This setting may not stick.

[–] waspentalive@beehaw.org 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Why aren't all of these just normal directories under either .local (for data files) or .config (for configuration)???

Actually, I think the XDG directories should be under a single XDG directory either dotted or not (a better name would be OK with me) ~/xdg/Documents, ~/xdg/Music, ~/xdg/Pictures etc.

[–] waspentalive@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

You don't really change the compiler itself. You can build up libraries of your own subroutines and link in the ones you need in any particular program, just like you might in C.

[–] waspentalive@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Always mount a scratch test subject before testing or reconfiguring.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/scratch-monkey.html

[–] waspentalive@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

This is why I never became a programmer. I am retired now, but for the last 10 years, I have been a data center support agent. Programming is fun, I would hate to ruin that fun by having to work to someone else's rule.

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