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I teach bachelor-level software development. I like Unix in all of its forms. If you would like to contact me, email is easiest: bart at my domain: dutchvirtual.nl

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He does it all: the YouTube face, the math floating around, non-working greenscreen, some memes and then he goes camping (including a Blair Witch style run through the snow). This is so brilliant.

Text art tools 11 days ago

I am guessing that pantone is a bunch of colors that are coded a certain way? Isn't there a common mechanism across design software? Like PDF is the platform agnostic way of sharing documents?

Cloudflare Drop 14 days ago

It's not Apple in general. If they release a new Mac Mini, it's fine. The thread when the Neo was released, was outright jubilant. It's whenever macOS is mentioned, it devolves in extreme negativity. I always, always avoid those.

Somehow, Windows 2000 does not look dated to me. It looks functional and usable, and maybe even somewhat fresh. I never actually used it long-term (during college, started using Linux), so it can't be nostalgic. Anyone else feel the same?

What a strange opinion. If it helps you do better at work, why wouldn't it be something to encourage?

Was he a judgmental person in general? Or do you think he had an aversion to meditating?

I do have to say, if you were encouraging him to ALSO start meditating, I'd hate that too.

I had the same with my motorcycle. Every time I brought it to the dealer, they came up enthusiastically with things to spend money on. Your tires are done! Your break pads are gone! With the help of a friend, I got into doing (very) basic maintenance myself. I just replaced the tires. I fixed a problem with the electrical system. And next will be the chain and sprocket.

The voice thing didn't work well enough, in Dutch at least. I've done an in-between. We instructed an AI as the client. Then as the teacher, I'd represent the client and would type. Students would form project groups, and each group would get 15-30 minutes to ask questions from the "client".

My first thought. I also encountered this problem and learned to clean the kitchen every night, never leave anything edible on countertop and floot, and store everything in good food containers.

From the Guidelines (link at bottom of each page): "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work".

Personally, I think it's an interesting experiment. If my prints break, it's at the layer lines. This work may be a stepping stone, an easy way to reinforce prints.

I try to always install with Homebrew. Because then you can uninstall with the --zap option, for example:

  $ brew uninstall --zap aerospace
Usually it blows away everything associated with the app, including cached files, configuration in ~/Library and ~/.config, etc. Very useful. It'll leave a non-functional login item which isn't active and can't be active.

Can I share my Visual Studio Code pet peeve? I tried to set the font of the editor, so I opened the preferences and instead of simply picking a font, there's a textfield for the "font family". I want to set it to Anka/Coder Narrow. I have no idea what I should fill in the textfield, and I feel it's a regression.

Anyway, it's amazing how JetBrains just keeps pumping out IDEs. My students like it. When I suggested Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code for coding C#, they ignored me and installed JetBrains Rider.