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PurpleBooth

@PurpleBooth@hachyderm.io

I write code, and help others write code too. :transgender_pride_potion: :bisexual_potion: :potion_polyamory:

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PurpleBooth, to random
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Seeing the family over the last week made significantly more frustrating by mums husband parroting that over population bullshit, and general racism against migrants from the UK news. Also of course while I was there the government had to announce another transphobic thing. Great. Glad to be back in Germany, things aren't perfect here, but at least I feel safe

PurpleBooth,
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@coldclimate Yeah, a family thing, it's not like an immediate fear, it's more like a constant low level discomfort. A constant wariness

jasongorman, to random
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When I think of the semantics of primitive refactorings, I picture the AST of a programming language, and graph-rewriting actions that can be performed on different kinds of node in the tree. (In much the same I think of code metrics as applying to different types of node in an AST.)

So we end up with a map of things that can be renamed, things that can be moved, things that can be safe-deleted, and so on.

(1/n)

PurpleBooth,
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@jasongorman I don't know but I immediately thought of amazing @dantleech, who does @phpactor which has a whole bunch of refactoring tools in it. Maybe he would be able to tell you?

PurpleBooth, to random
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Til: a Jaffle is what they call a toastie from a toastie maker (In Australia & New Zealand) (h/t @xssfox )

PurpleBooth, to random
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Do you think humans will ever make another calendar? Feels like we are overdue for a shiny new calendar

PurpleBooth,
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@mxk I dunno, emojis are new I guess. That's like a new alphabet

PurpleBooth, to random
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My German teacher told me that Germans don't have friends at work, just acquaintances, which seems wild to me

PurpleBooth, to random
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Been doing a bit of beat saber in the morning as some idk light exercise and I must say I am starting to enjoy the feeling I get after it

PurpleBooth,
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Which is cool because I really need to get fitter, but also often I get a super hard crash of depression after exercise

PurpleBooth,
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@coldclimate ah I had that game, the connect was a forerunner of the vr headset in many ways

gintoxicating, to random
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every time.

every. single. time.

PurpleBooth,
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@gintoxicating It's just so tempting, like Constantinople to the Latin armies at the end of the Fourth Crusade.

PurpleBooth, to random
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You ever think about how types are variability attenuators in Ashby's Law

PurpleBooth, to random
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meh

PurpleBooth, to random
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Ok! I did it, so to install windows I spun up a remote vm and get the url to download the windows iso, then I downloaded it to my mac laptop and used it to spin up a windows vm, in that windows vm I used rufus to make install media, and finally used that to install windows. I will never complain about the Ubuntu installer ever again.

PurpleBooth, to random
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Oh wow, the install process for windows is not friendly, it needs extra drivers for pretty common stuff like nvme. I haven't done this in years and I have been spoiled by how much easier this is on Mac and Linux. Lets not get into that I had to spin up a remote machine to even download the iso...

PurpleBooth,
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I am currently setting up a windows VM (this time local), to use the install media tool, in case that is the source of my problems. Increasingly feeling like maybe I just install Linux and be done with it lol, it's supposed to be a gaming machine tho

matthewskelton, to random
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The fun thing about the Haier micro enterprise model is that it's basically the logical extension of autonomous teams ... but with a strong "legal bulkhead" around each team, because each team* is a separate company with its own P&L, CEO, etc.

A forcing function for innovation, accountability, limiting risk, etc.

(*Not quite true but close enough)

https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/next-influential-management-model-of-the-world

PurpleBooth,
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@matthewskelton yes! I really want to work somewhere that tries it out, it feels very right to me, combined with something like dynamic teaming and you have a VERY different form of organisation. I think what frustrates me a bit about the corporate rebels is they don't talk enough about the evolutionary pressures that got haier there. Super appealing but without knowing what problem there were solving for, hard to know when to apply it

PurpleBooth,
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@mutineer @matthewskelton This was really enjoyable, I think I am going to have to keep learing more about Haier, it's really neat in structure.

I particularly liked this quote at the end:
"At the end of the day, an organizational structure “IS” technology and therefore is natural that — especially in such an advanced company — the two (the technology and the organization) are almost impossible to separate."

PurpleBooth, to random
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I am going to get a gaming PC, does anyone have any advice for someone many years ago used to build them but hasn't used anything other than a laptop in years?

PurpleBooth,
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@brunty Probably want to spend a bit over 2K, mostly for a bit of very occasional ML stuff, but mostly a headless box for parsec, for light gaming (stardrew valley, surviving mars, nothing terribly taxing, etc), and a bit of beatsaber.

PurpleBooth,
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@brunty At the moment I use a vm on paperspace, the P4000

8 GB GPU
30 GB RAM
8 vCPU

And that handles everything I need fine, but the latency is a pain, and I am using it too much these days for it to be economical

PurpleBooth,
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@brunty https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/DRmT7R Something like this maybe? idk

PurpleBooth,
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@brunty Amazing, thanks this is really helpful, thanks for taking the time to do that

PurpleBooth,
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@brunty Will probably go with a riff on what you suggested with a bit more ram, and a diff card on the same chipset (got rid of the RGB ram as I probably am going to hide the box somewhere). Now I will wait a day and see if this seems like a good idea still lol https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/MncnqR

PurpleBooth,
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@brunty Thanks again for your help on this, really appreciate it.

thisismissem, (edited ) to random
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What do we all think of Chromebook's as a starter laptop for someone wishing to learn to program? Like a very basic computer just to give someone a chance at a career in tech

Edit: this Post is also a year old, I don't need replies anymore

PurpleBooth,
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@thisismissem format it and put linux on it, then yes if you get a version with enough ram. With chrome os, not so much

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