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palordrolap, to AskKbin in Do you ever go back and reread your own posts and find yourself wondering how the hell you managed to say the words that you said?

"I'm a million different people from one day to the next; I can't change my mould, no no." — Bittersweet Symphony

We all show rotating aspects of ourselves, but we remain fundamentally the same. Unless something drastic happens that changes how those aspects present or function anyway.

(Maybe that lyric doesn't mean what I'm reading into it, but it's what I've taken from it. That's a funny thing about art.)

So yeah, I've looked back through comments I've made and realised that I knew something at the time that I'd since forgotten, and seen how smart I'd been - or how utterly cringe-inducing, and known that at some point, that if the cringe is bound to return, so might the smart. Hopefully. Maybe. Please.

There's also the fact that we distil ourselves down for a comment. Present the best side, or the best of the aspect we're going for. Even trolls do this. Unfortunately. So when we look back, not at all in the same frame of mind that we were at the time, it's like looking at the highlights of someone else's life on some other social media, not seeing everything else that's going on besides.

I probably won't remember all the edits and corrections I've made to this comment before submitting the first time. Only time knows how future me will perceive it, should I ever look back.

palordrolap, to news in Alexei Navalny ally Leonid Volkov says fight against Putin will never end

Against Putin the fight will end. Putin is a man, and eventually men die.

The question is whether his replacement will have the same ideals. Or puppet masters.

palordrolap, to linuxmemes in Seriously, WTF is up with that?

find's expressions are order-sensitive and look like options, which is probably why the real options go zeroth, then the starting path goes first. Also, there is a -path-match expression that means something different than that starting path.

That said, there's nothing stopping the writing of a wrapper script that allows any placement or intermingling of any of those groupings.

The simplest would just grab the last argument and use it in the first position, which I'm guessing is what the meme creator really wants. Watch out for the edge case of whitespace in the path name. (And the edge case of the edge case where the end part of that path is valid but not the intended target.)

palordrolap, to TodayILearned in Supercomputer simulation predicts when humans will be extinct

250 million years? Seems optimistic by a few orders of magnitude, and that assumes that we've stopped evolving. We haven't.

25? Sure. 250? Probably. 2500? Uh. 25000? Yeah, no. 250,000? Definitely not, evolved or not.

Prove me wrong, humanity.

palordrolap, to linuxmemes in Gotta stab a new drive into computer

I think I might be the third option: f'ss-tab.

Couldn't tell you where that's from. When I first ran Linux, the year didn't start with a 2.

palordrolap, to opensource in Saviom Software- Resource Management Software

Where can I download the source code of this software?

palordrolap, to linux in The history of LibreOffice

They need to update that. They jumped to version 24 for 2024. 24.2.3 is the current version.

palordrolap, to internet in Slovakia PM Robert Fico in critical condition after being shot

Wrong magazine. Try one of the news magazines, maybe.

palordrolap, to linuxmemes in Can I make it fit, or do I have to just let it go?

If they have any sense they'll not try to find out what's on it and send it straight to whatever electronics recycling is available.

Sticking a USB device of unknown provenance into your computer is just asking for trouble. (When you think about it, we even take a risk every time we buy one.)

Sure, you know it's harmless, but they don't know that, even if you tell them. Who are you? You're just someone who used to live in their house. As far as they know, you might be a freak who gets a kick out of leaving dodgy devices around for people to find.

palordrolap, to technology in MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced!

Compilers were much less complex back then and didn't do a great deal of optimisation. Also hardware was slow, so your compiled code, which wasn't necessarily optimal either before or after the compilation phase, was at least half as fast as you wanted it to be.

If you wanted speed, you hand-rolled assembly.

palordrolap, to technology in MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced!

The original Microsoft almost-an-OS was the dialect of BASIC that was put onto various 8-bit computers of the time. Probably the most successful were the Commodores.

<old man ramble begins>

Microsoft, perhaps Bill Gates himself, hid an Easter egg in the ROM image that they originally supplied to Commodore, and entering a certain command on a Commodore PET would cause MICROSOFT! to appear on-screen.

Arguably the OS was made up of more than just the Microsoft parts, but it's probably more Microsoft than MS-DOS was.

The Easter egg was disabled in later Commodore computers, but the bytes containing the company's name (in an obfuscated form) are still there in the Commodore 64 BASIC ROM.

The C128's BASIC had an actual acknowledgement to Microsoft on the start-up screen. I can't remember whether the hidden but disabled name is still there in the ROM, but given the outright acknowledgement, they might have actually removed it by that point. It's still in the C128's C64 ROM though.

palordrolap, to technology in in search for a YouTube alternative to upload my video

Peertube is the Fediverse equivalent of YouTube, the Fediverse being what Lemmy (where you are), Kbin (where I am) etc. are also a part of.

As far as I'm aware, it's a matter of finding an instance you resonate with, create an account and share away.

Do bear in mind that since it's the Fediverse, Peertube instances aren't usually backed by a large organisation with bags of cash, so if you can afford to donate to your instance, at least consider doing so.

I'd also recommend not using Peertube as a be-all-end-all storage for your videos. Always keep a copy for yourself. People do this with YouTube and they shouldn't unless they're OK with suddenly and forever losing that content at some unspecified future date. The same can happen with PeerTube, but the reasons are likely to be different (instance closing rather than unexpected account deletion).

Corporation-backed video hosts include: Twitch, Dailymotion and Vimeo. You could probably also host on Facebook. While these are options, they might make you feel as unclean as I did typing that out.

palordrolap, (edited ) to programmerhumor in Python is great, but stuff like this just drives me up the wall

Someone else points out that Python's native bool is a subtype of int, so adding a bool to an int (or performing other mixed operations) is not an error, which might then go on to cause a hard-to-catch semantic/mathematical error.

I am assuming that trying to add a NumPy bool_ to an int causes a compilation error at best and a run-time warning, or traceable program crash at worst.

palordrolap, to unitedkingdom in UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways

In before this comes with a taser attachment.

palordrolap, to technology in Hello GPT-4o

It's not yawn, but not because it's great. It's because it'll be around for just long enough that it will create reliance on it, ruin many things, and then those people who have become reliant will find themselves in the position of having to unruin the many ruined things without the crutch to help them.

Or maybe I'm being the next iteration of the schoolteacher or parent who said that you won't have a calculator in your pocket all the time.

But then, a calculator doesn't need a terabyte of RAM. We're a ways off that being consumer-affordable as yet. If past consumer RAM size trends are anything (and the only thing) to go by, a portable LLM would be a 2040s or 2050s expectation.

Assuming that you'd be allowed to have the terabyte of data for nothing, anyway. Exorbitant subscription models are likely to be the norm by then.

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