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I am actually sending some optional telemetry data as well, consciously. Telemetry I don't care about or smells it's disabled. I was referring more to some other type of creeping. I don't mind telemetry for a good cause.
I switched to Windows 10 as my main development machine few years ago after 25 years of continuously crashing Linux with an enormous pleasure. FreeBSD, well, there's nothing to crash there, that's the problem with it. Nothing. I didn't know almost anything about this Windows OS so I just started playing some sort of whac-a-mole game with it. I don't know what I did but right now I'm a happy (windows 11) user. I use Hyper-V with great success for driving my Linux and FreeBSD development. I like powershell and the dotnet platform and storage spaces and ntfs and many other. Good technologies, it feels good using. Windows terminal is almost OK. I stay away from crap like WSL and Code. I still use mutt for mail, not Office. And I can just play a game without any problems.
There's no Microsoft creep anywhere inside my daily flow. Actually, as of late, I feel more creep in Linux and FreeBSD than in Windows. Everything just works. Sometimes it tells me it has some updates for me. I let it install them and that's it. I'm back to my game, no weird stuff.
No account problem, no copilots, just my shit and myself and no Irene.
When I read about other users having trouble with it I get pretty sad. I wish I could say "do this and that" but I have no idea how my whac-a-mole game drove me to this happy situation. I must have (de)activated some (attack) vectors by mistake. But I whacamoled it head to end, from bios to wallpaper. I kept hitting and hitting, backuping, restoring, backuping,restoring, until i won. I'm on Windows 11 Pro in testing mode right now. Getting back to a linux desktop as my main? Nah, not right now. I have my i3wm running on a gpu partition inside hyper-v and sometimes I drop to it... I can't do all my arcane linux stuff in windows yet but i'm getting there. For now, I'm enjoying it. Been a while now. I just hope they don't notice me...
76! Let’s do this!
I agree and I have the evidence needed to back up your claims. Stable home life? checked. Parent-enforced discipline? checked. High parental expectations? checked. Through some involvement though, to some degree: we as parents always show real and positive interest on what our children are doing and learning without really interfering unless they explicitly ask for it, and I believe this helps dearly. I learned by doing, trying at first to get involved too much - proved to be a mistake which he corrected it by himself, jumping from an IT career to chemistry in notime and shortly hitting silver at international chemistry olympics. I never try to interfere anymore but just be there, always ready to talk about it and offer the emotional grounding they so much need. Kids will flourish. My elder is on his way to what seems to be a strong, well built medical career and my 6yr old oh boy, she's ready set.
I just finished tapping 381 times, disabling (hopefully most of?) Apple Intelligence incursions in my life on a machine I don't really use. Was wondering what will I do next. Oh, look. More crap. That will keep me busy for a while.
[laughs in Gates]
1. Find your hero
2. Meet your hero
3. Start an awkward conversation with your hero.
It always goes like this no matter what you try.
So happy to see Andrei Alexandrescu was included in this documentary. His book on modern C++ design was a mind opener at the time I read it. Maybe still is today. Anybody else read it?
funny, I think the same about rust.
I don't know Calbee snacks. We grew up with different chemicals in this area.
BUT. I must say, the packaging looks so much better in black and white.
It makes me think it's an honest product, whatever that means. Good feeling. Put your name on it, black on white. Sell it.
no comment
that’s not an error
amazing documentation for a product.
I wonder what font was used, couldn't tell.
i don’t think you were in a relationship long enough to draw a conclusion. actually, it’s the opposite.
awesome stuff, YT has it and modli.rs is, well, up and running.
thank you!
are you an AI asked to introduce an existential crisis? no? no matter, keep writing, seed some urls
right here with you.
"Revolutionary Road", by Richard Yates. Because it uncovers the greatest conspiracy of our time. Also "The Moviegoer" by Walker Percy, for the same reason.
The real so called "mindfuck" comes when what you read unravels the reality around you, not when it sends you in some utopia with the promise of a metaphor built to solve a great mistery you actually don't give a f... about.
P.S.This is just one of the HN threads which is more valuable than the article it refers to.
Thank you for all the good books mentioned here, HN!
any chance of getting a responsive TOC in any pdf reader whatsoever?
is the ocr system written in perl by any chance?
11mbps away, I just can't reach the goddam thing. Internal Server Error. When the fox can't reach the grapes she says they're sour anyway.
no :-| for various reasons, invented or real: 2 big physical injuries in a sequence, depression, tv... at least 2 years of stationary life. there goes the real root of my (our) cognitive impairment, no matter how much i want to blame an external uncontrollable factor.
fine. I believe you because I am experiencing the same things.
did you eliminate depression as a possible cause? I don't know how. there is no "expert help" in my country. I believe everyone around me is faking whatever they are doing, including therapy.
another thing to note: isolation. i think my isolation level just kept increasing. i entered a hole with the lockdown and i never got out, contrary. isolation could be a cause of cognitive impairment, yes? we are social animals?
can you make any sense of what i'm saying?
p.s. also my short term memory is broken.
p.s. I am also becoming increasingly paranoid because of this apparent cognitive impairment.
“ Ford even built a Stirling that could drive away from the curb (with relatively low power) twenty seconds after you turned the start key”
Can the engine be started remotely? Just asking…
Right. “Complex numbers were invented so that we can take square roots of negative numbers”
Why? I wish a textbook tell me why, right there.
I like how the volume is lower on some channels
LIFETIME series. lifetime.
[...] According to Allied Market Research, the global astrology industry was valued at $12.8 billion in 2021, up considerably from $2.2 billion in 2018. By 2031, it’s expected to rise to $22.8 billion.
Same thing with tarot. These are real markets and will bloom proportionally with depression and lack of education. So when you see $22.8 billion market increase, you now know what you are actually looking at.
On the other hand, these are just 2 games, really. Think gaming industry has to produce a miriad of games to hit $300 billion. It's just they don't sell you hope, just some cheap entertainment to evade from a crappy life.
Show me 2 games worth $12 billion market share.
p.s. and co-star really took it to the next level. beautiful design, extremely well built weekly readings, and i think their backend is coded in haskell :-) Ofcourse i'll buy some hope to get me through to the end of the week.
It is installed by default everywhere. I don’t need administrative privileges to deploy Perl code almost anywhere. That is extremely empowering.
Not true anymore. FreeBSD dropped it from base.
With a great amount of discipline, Perl scripts can be successfully scaled up into large, complex systems.
History shows different. Perl was never designed for this.
I can be confident that a Perl script I write today will run unaltered 10 years from now, modulo external collaborators.
I concur. I also have 10-ish lines perl scripts running on my systems since 10-ish years, doing exactly what it was written to do. And if the data protocol changes I will just drop 10-ish lines of code and write new 10-ish lines of weird looking, compact and efficient code. I never care understanding my code. If i ever read it again it's just to have a "wow, what does this even do" moment at my own code. For me, write-only is a feature.
Perl can be used nearly as a shell replacement for very quick scripting.
Yet there is no generally available shell (like Bash or zsh) written in Perl. This is a weird thing I'm still trying to cope with in 2023. It may be because the term "shell replacement" is used wrong. Did you mean "shell programming"?
Perl has a small set of core syntax and is very extensible and flexible in adopting new paradigms.
... I don't know. 27 years later, I still like to flex my reptilian brain reading perlsyn manpage. I like to think of perl syntax as a set of loose rules which you can bend to your liking. And the things you can come out with... oh, boy.
Perl is good tool for coming up with a solution really quick. And most of the times, you will just keep running that code for ten-ish years to come. Also, Perl is more of a philosophy than a programming language, like Forth is.
Its biggest disadvantage was the community itself. They just kept using it wrong, over and over, trying to serve the greed of a corporate world. The proof of this is Perl 6, the community rewrite of Perl. Looks cool. Won't use it. I think that's why it's now mostly referred to as "raku" instead of "Perl 6". It's not a Perl.
i am a grey beard. i confirm "the catastrophe happened when people mistook this it for a backend development language"