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 name... at the moment) until it went full Musk.

Now I'm here.

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

palordrolap,

This is mean sale price, right? Got to wonder what the current median property value (not sale price) is, and how close that is to this mean.

My point being that a lot of churn at prices near the mean would keep that mean away from a true median property value.

palordrolap,

"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.

danie10, to linux
@danie10@mastodon.social avatar

Try these Linux bash aliases for more efficient use of the command line

For those who don’t know, bash aliases allow you to create unique command shortcuts. So, a simple word can be used to run a more complex command which may have a lot of additional parameters, e.g. just type the word ‘update’ to execute an update com ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/try-these-linux-bash-aliases-for-more-efficient-use-of-the-command-line/

palordrolap,

The trash one is a little outdated and won't necessarily put the trashed file where the user's GUI file manager would put it.

gio trash FILE and kfmclient move FILE trash:/ are the compatible commands under GNOME and KDE respectively. Derivatives generally use one or the other.

Unfortunately, the KDE one is somewhat tricky to do with an alias, what with the parameter being in the middle. I am also unsure as to whether it has a force option. Web results are inconclusive and I'm on a GNOME derivative.

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,

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,

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,

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.

Saviom Software- Resource Management Software (www.saviom.com)

Saviom is a pioneer and global leader of the most powerful and configurable resource management software. It offers advanced features such as robust scheduling, capacity planning, utilization tracking, integration, and workflow capabilities. This helps firms build an optimized workforce, reduce resource costs, increase...

palordrolap,

Where can I download the source code of this software?

palordrolap,

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

palordrolap,

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

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,

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,

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,

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.

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,

In before this comes with a taser attachment.

palordrolap,

"Socky"

"Socky Junior"

"Socky Sock Sock"

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

Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)

GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...

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,

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.

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,

Ridiculous.

I think I like it.

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

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,

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,

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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