meejah

meejah, 1 hour ago

@ghorwood @robsonfletcher I think the "install software" experience is one of the best differences; clicking through 900 "next" buttons in a bespoke installer for everything on Windows sucks.

On any popular linux distro, you browse the available software and click install. Then it's done, and gets updated when you do updates. These days the amount of choice is the main "hard thing" (which is a great problem to have in a lot of ways). Obviously exceptions to this rule, but ...

meejah, 36 minutes ago

@Alexlee @academicchatter I tried it too, with slightly different results

meejah, 15 hours ago

@glyph @mkennedy @jacob Everything changed.

A middle-school or high-school, for example, has 3 different grades. Covid wiped out two of those for many sports. So now you have zero "experienced" players, no teachers who are "used" to organizing, etc.

I mention youth here because it "trickles up" in everything. I also mentor a FIRST FTC team -- same dynamic. Adult Ultimate: same. Local meetups: just beginning now. Organizers are starting from "approximately nothing" in a lot of these areas...

meejah, 20 hours ago

@wlach @davidism Similarly, it is far less likely that I'd be a #magicWormhole contributor (and maintainer!) today if it wasn't for PyCon 2016 (where it was introduced, and I met Brian Warner for the first time).

Nice to see some old software gain a maintainer :)

meejah, 1 day ago

@mistersql If it's very small (or white-on-white) would a human actually notice? Are pre-scanning systems smart enough to look at the meta like "text colour"?

(Have you tried, and had HR notice?)

meejah, 1 day ago

@itamarst Yeah, that's basically what I'm interested in.

I find it interesting that page contextualizes it as "recruiters probably won’t notice you are cheating the system"

I would absolutely not call this "cheating" -- quite the opposite, it's one tiny way to maybe reject some of the bad uses of "AI".

meejah, 1 day ago

@bamboombibbitybop @ghorwood You of course can buy linux laptops (just not at Best Buy, which yes would be great).

This is what I recommend to (non-tech) people who ask me about getting into linux, and it has gone well for the two people who did actually do it.

meejah, 1 day ago

@bamboombibbitybop @ghorwood The two I have personal experience with: System76 (for more budget-conscious) or Purism / Librem (if you'd be looking at a macbook air or similar).

Both come with Debian-derived custom OSes, and IME have a pretty good "first use" experience (especially the Librem, which has full-disk encryption out of the box).

meejah, 1 day ago

@bamboombibbitybop @ghorwood I don't mean to exclude others, there are lots of options these days which is nice! (e.g. Framework looks interesting for "somewhat technical, but not Linux" people).

meejah, 3 days ago

@davidr @alecthegeek I greatly prefer 4 for legibility (and agree with the other comments of "use 100 characters").

I use like 22pt or bigger typeface and still have plenty of room for those occasional (or at least -- should be occasional!) longer lines.

Two-space indenting can be good for JSON or other deeply-nested structures with 'shallow' + delimited blocks, but 4 is "basically standard".
(I did once see a "3" codebase; it is now 4).

meejah, 6 days ago

@picklejr @books @books @bookstodon Ursula Le Guin

meejah, 6 days ago

@encthenet Happy to pair-program to get a dev environment up and running (or whatever else)....

meejah, 6 days ago

@encthenet I'll re-check, but I'm 99% sure there's already a C dependency in magic-wormhole (definitely Rust, because "cryptography") so as long as there's Python bindings, could work?

(It does use Twisted though so that might make it harder, depending on whether "the C library" does I/O itself or not)

meejah, 6 days ago

@encthenet Also there's PyPy, which in my experience can be a lot faster at running Twisted code ... 10x doesn't quite take 10MB to 1Gb, but close?