palordrolap

@palordrolap@kbin.social

Some middle-aged guy on the Internet; Seen a lot of it and occasionally regurgitate it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4.

Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Now I'm here.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

palordrolap,

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

palordrolap,

had he
at any point in the episode
consumed mushrooms

palordrolap,

Well I found a good quality version of the original on Imgur: https://imgur.com/WK1g3xd

... but I can't find a good quality version of this particular "Billionaires" modification. (That's assuming it's as badly pixelated for everyone else as it is for me anyway.)

palordrolap,

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,

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,

A wild username reference appears!

There's an editor called Kate. It's probably not named after you, but if you're young enough and the person who named you was into tech, you might be named after it.

palordrolap,

named myself

Programmer error: I totally missed a bunch of edge cases there. Cases 32 to 35 for sure

Buuut I'm guessing you didn't name yourself after the editor.

palordrolap,

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,

80 characters

Two hours and no-one's challenged this? People must be asleep.

(This is not that challenge. Only pointing out that someone usually has by now.)

palordrolap,

Ones I have used: GNOME Disks' create and restore image features. Possibly Mint's mintstick for writing a distro's .iso out to a USB stick. I am not too sure on that.

I assume old-school dd still works as well, which might be a better option for scripted backups or minimal systems.

palordrolap,

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,

In before this comes with a taser attachment.

palordrolap,

Ha. No, I don't think it was Linus, but it might have been someone else European. Really hard to be sure at this point. SATA has been around for a while.

And I've unearthed a memory of the other, other pronunciation that I know I've heard: "serial ay-tee-ay". Why make it an acronym when you can say one of the words and then the initials of the others!

palordrolap,

I must have heard "saata" somewhere because that's my head-pronunciation, and it doesn't match how I say data (dayta). Not sure I've ever said it out loud.

Could be an "avoiding saying anything like 'Satan'" kind of thing, not because of religion, but more to avoid lame jokes.

Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)

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palordrolap,

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.

palordrolap,

"Socky"

"Socky Junior"

"Socky Sock Sock"

"The guy who wrote this implementation was suffering from burn-out, wasn't he."

palordrolap,

Ridiculous.

I think I like it.

... which is probably what my mother thought when she first set eyes on me, tbh.

palordrolap,

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,

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,

It worked... or it will work? for Jeffrey Sinclair and Delenn. Just don't think too hard about which one of them did it / has done it / will do it first.

And the closest thing to a moth wasn't either of those.

Python is great, but stuff like this just drives me up the wall (lemmy.world)

Explanation: Python is a programming language. Numpy is a library for python that makes it possible to run large computations much faster than in native python. In order to make that possible, it needs to keep its own set of data types that are different from python’s native datatypes, which means you now have two different...

palordrolap, (edited )

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,

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.

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palordrolap,

Where can I download the source code of this software?

palordrolap,

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

palordrolap,

Downvoted for broken-bot word salad. Might remove if you fix this up and manage not to include any links to spam.

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