This is both sweet and funny. I’d love to have a spouse like that. Thanks for taking care of them :)

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https://jakec007.github.io/2020-06-28-how-we-trick-rocks-to-think/ fun, accessible-for-non-experts related article

Today we’re going to explore how the thinking rocks that power your computer are created.

Interesting read, thanks for posting!

Most of my games work right out of the box, and the ones that have problems are ones that I’d also have to fiddle with for more than a 1-minute check to ProtonDB are ones I’d have to fiddle with on Windows. However I also do not touch anything with online multiplayer or anticheat, and I know games with kernel-level anticheat tend to not handle Linux well on anything but a Steam Deck.

I swapped a PC I had mostly for gaming over to Linux. I’m having a pretty nice time.

As for piracy, I know pirated games that need to be emulated because they are originally Nintendo Switch games or something work well. No idea for pirated PC games.

Hey thanks, that looks like it would probably solve my problem! (And thanks for your willingness to reply on old threads with people asking for help!)

For what it’s worth, if you didn’t tell me English wasn’t your first language, I would not have known from this comment.

At first I thought this was the Wicked Witch of the West’s actress and thought she must have been multitalented. Then I looked it up to verify. Nope, same name, different women.

Can’t think of anything that could serve a major need right now, but I absolutely identified things in my life where I could use a preexisting tool to accomplish my goal, but it’s much less hassle for me to use the one I made for myself. You don’t have to transform the world, sometimes you can help yourself with a minor inconvenience and then put it out there for anyone who might find themselves with the same inconvenience.

I shoot for this but am detectable by constantly making edits to make my point more understandable, adding something relevant that I thought of later (literally editing this post right now to include “adding something relevant that I thought of later”) or to correct typos.

Stenberg, saying that he’s “had it” and is “putting my foot down on this craziness,” suggested that every suspected AI-generated HackerOne report will have its reporter asked to verify if they used AI to find the problem or generate the submission. If a report is deemed “AI slop,” the reporter will be banned. “We still have not seen a single valid security report done with AI help,” Stenberg wrote.

I appreciate this because I’d hate to get my issue removed as AI slop because I wasn’t enough of an asshole and didn’t make enough English mistakes. All for rejecting AI slop but it’d feel bad being the false positive deemed “not human enough” and getting my efforts tossed out too.

I may or may not be one of those autistic people who tried to compensate for my social deficiencies and inability to read the room by doing my best to be polite, nice, and inoffensive. (It helps that those qualities do not conflict with who I want to be at all.) And “nice and inoffensive” helps you easily subclass/multiclass into corpo dialect…

TIL!

Can exit nano on my own, have the common sense to not call in a panic about it before at least looking it up. (Which is how I learned how to exit it: looking it up.) But was never taught about ^ meaning “Control+” until your comment, especially since nowadays people write it out as “Control+” or “CTRL+”.

I might have put two and two together when dealing with everything else in nano after I learned to exit, but never really internalized the rule “^ means Control+”. So thank you for your comment!

Disclaimer: I feel like I am too stupid for most of programming.dev but participate here anyways because I learn stuff from the comments.

First learning is last learning.

I’ll be the dumb one to ask: what do you mean? Is this that making a mistake that costs a lot is the best teacher, because you only have to mess it up once to learn it forever?

Thanks for the heads-up!

I do wonder about inventions that actually changed the world or the way people do things, and if there is a noticeable pattern that distinguishes them from inventions that came and went and got lost to history, or that did get adopted but do not have mass adoption. Hindsight is 20/20, but we live in the present and have to make our guesses about what will succeed and what will fail, and it would be nice to have better guesses.

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!books@programming.dev for programming books would like this

If you want to learn the stuff necessary for that certification, here’s a document, the WAS Body of Knowledge listing what you need to know and maybe where you can learn that. Less detailed version in the WAS Exam Content Outline.

Seeing a lot of posts like this did help push me to actually make the switch instead of just talking about doing it someday.

Anecdotal evidence, but as a kid I played the fuck out of edutainment games and not much else with a screen. Did not watch that much TV, did a lot of reading and playing outside and making really bad kid crafts… I think the edutainment games, my primary screen use, helped me in the long run. I say this as someone who definitely uses screens too much as an adult. Screens ≠ bad, as long as it’s an actual good use of time.

There is a big difference between passive mindless scrolling/consumption and using the screen to do something like learning, making art (thanks drawing programs, music making programs, video making programs, IDEs), communicating with people you value who happen to live far away… it’s really nice being able to enter my musical ideas with a computer, a little slower than I come up with them; than to have to write it out all by hand and take forever because my handwriting is crappy and hard to read unless I slow down and take my time. To modify my recipes on my phone quickly and wipe off the screen with no fuss if juices splash on it, as opposed to staining a recipe page forever (possibly even losing information if the stain is bad enough) and crying about it. To type to my friends overseas and it’s okay for them to reply whenever they wake up, instead of strictly scheduling calls because of timezone differences and schedules and maybe forgetting that thing you wanted to share with them because you had the thought 6 hours ago. To access a bunch of open free textbooks or learning resources and how-to articles without having to drive to the library first. If all my screen use was useful I’d still be using them a lot, because it honestly makes my life much easier to have easily searchable and quickly-createable information resources that I can back up on a device I can clean easily, instead of a bunch of physical documents I’ll inevitably lose or dirty and freak out about losing or dirtying especially given how much time I sunk into making them by hand.

Also, I’m forgetful and having reminders I set to go off at specific times or when I leave a specific location is so much more effective for managing this tendency than writing on my hand or asking someone else to remind me of whatever. If I didn’t have the internet I probably would not have figured out gay rights until actually meeting openly gay people in college in an environment that didn’t encourage them to hide, as opposed to figuring it out at ~13 and learning I’m not as straight as I thought I was thanks to the internet. That is a few extra years of less “do what you want in your house but keep it away from the rest of us”-brand homophobia thanks to the internet.

could you tell me what book it is 👀