bryndos

basic_task_list = ['copy and paste', 'install package', 'type', 'keyboard', 'read and write' ]

for basic_task in basic_task_list:
    print(f"""
        Newbies can't {basic_task}.
        They never {basic_task} in windows.
        Windows  has replaced {basic_task} with copilot, this is what linux needs to do to compete.

        How will linux ever hope to attract windows user if it still maintains this ancient hacker 1337xor tools like  {basic_task}?

        Users just want to turn on computer and watch it do computance - how does linux not get this?
    """)

I’ve had it with all these mkfs-ing windows on this mkfs-ing plane.

Thanks! You stopped me clinking the linked slop so i downvoted OP, but your comment made me look up the previous project and some of that made me feel slightly less bad about my own shitty ignorant failures with guitar effect circuits.

https://github.com/torvalds/GuitarPedal

If you actually know what you are doing, and you looked at the schematic and went “Linus is clearly way over his head, and that is just stupid”, whether it comes to parts choices or to just the circuit in general, please let me know.

In particular, don’t feel like it would be impolite to tell me I’m incompetent and doing stupid things. I absolutely know I’m not competent and would love to hear any criticism. Some of the best teaching moments have been when I haven’t understood something, and somebody piped up to tell me I should do Xyz.

I’m going to leave the link to the “Tremolo doubling as a metronome” issue from the 1590A pedal project, because that was a case of somebody (@gralco) coming in and very politely telling me I was doing stupid things.

Pushing me to do simulations in KiCad completely changed the game. So don’t be shy to tell me my circuits suck. Because that’s literally why I do this!

Long before the term intelligence was sullied by the prefix “artificial” the phrase “police intelligence” has long been a euphemism for a suspicion that they cannot back up with any evidence that would stand up in court.

I think coprolite seems like a perfect fit for their methods. They just need to train it to start off with solid evidence and fuck it up until it doesn’t stand up in court. Then it’ll be employee of the week. A bit like computer driven cars, it might be shite but that doesn’t mean it is necessarily worse than the typical human cop.

The real problem is if it’s harder to hold it to account.

A more easily if everyone who isn’t moving bulky things (like majority of commuters) is using public transport.

I don’t know about supplies in rest of the world, but typically the rpi “kits” that include the book seem to be very limited and rarely in stock.

I think the book, at least older versions, can be found on ebay though. I think its just a basic into to python and GPIO so the earlier editions are probably fine.

Compare it to the likely alternative for the task/person, probably R or even MS excel in many cases i’d guess. The alternatives should ideally be based on empirical observation of the population. The marginal saving of choosing a higher efficiency than python might look a lot lower.

Go Go Gadget Eyes

Sadly, it probably makes their lives easier too , for most of them - at least the ones traveling in the zone. They can afford it or the cab fare, and the journey is faster.

The ones holding oil stocks won’t even notice the immaterial difference unless it somehow fixes transit and housing density in the rest of the USA (Narrator: . . . ) .

The only real inconvenience would probably be for low income people who have to drive and can’t swap to subway or bus for some reason - I’d think probably not very many of those.

Maybe people owning car parking in manhatten suffer so that’s probably a win.

Anyways, I think several popular English dictionaries disagree.

Worse than correcting someone, is doing it wrongly, or where correct is ambiguous.

Min Plank

Surely there can’t be that many sheep on Soay to come up with such an estimate.

I suspect the scientist got a bit lonely out there doing the fieldwork, tried something that he’d normally get away with on a domestic ewe, got rebuffed, and wrote this paper to slander the whole species as revenge.

On debian, I never worry - most of my regular use computers are that. Maybe hesitant about a dist-upgrade, but i backup all my home and main edited config , and apt-list regularly anyway.

on my arch that i use regularly I never worry.

on steam deck never worry - kind of obviously.

On my arch system that i only use occasionally i just expect trouble whenever i go back to it after a too long (say 2 months i’d be edgy)…

I always run my backup procedure first - i have to anyway to sync my home folders.

update archlinux-keyring first as that’s the most common issue .

if any dependency issue emerges that cant be fixed by removing one or two packages or using pacman-static - i normally just go straight back to live usb and chroot, or be prepared to reformat and jump back to the pacstrap part of install process and reinstall base system.

It’s the hands. not enough fingers.

if /dev/null is fast and web-scale, i will use it!

that pig’s a pretty mean bastard

I once got given a small thing of cold soup before ordering, for free*. It was disgusting.

• the restaurant was not cheap so i’m sure it’s priced in with other stuff.

Some bread is also quite often given for free at the start.

I guess you might want to link the psu to a bunch of relays that controlled by the gpio, and use it to deliver medium amounts of power to various peripherals. i guess lots of motors or maybe fairly powerful led lighting arrays, or weak heaters , comes to mind.

So what seemed most daft to me is exposing the 3v and 5v lines on that breadboard like thing, but not using the psu’s +/-12v lines - that could let you run 12 and 24V stuff. plenty of space to allow for a bunch of relays and some connectors.

But even so its a strange form factor for that.

Like a kate bush pop song that just never ends

parrot