That doesn't really explain why you think it's so bad. I may be missing something, but I don't find it all that terrible? What, specifically, am I missing? You've usually had good opinions in the past, so I respect your opinions. This is a serious question - I'm not sure why it's so harmful in your views, specifically.
I use LXDE, so I presume I have bad taste. I don't even do it for the low resource usage, I do it because I like the features and the way it looks. It's pretty easy to customize and rather stable. So, I use it. It also affords me easy entry into the Ubuntu ecosystem and their resources are vast and easily discoverable.
Meh, stupidity isn't entirely heritable. Though I suppose it does impact the nurture part of it. Besides, without stupid people we'd have nobody to screw up our restaurant orders - then what would we complain about?
Some of them use the same basic parts, so you'd really only need to swap out the barrel. There's not a whole lot of them, but they exist. NEF has at least one model, as does Mossberg, The 500 model can be easily used to make a muzzle loader into a regular shotgun. They have a partial list of those firearms on their site.
Oh, good. I was really hoping you didn't mean required watching for me. Hell, make it required viewing for all Apple employees. Just not me... No, not me...
I'm a mathematician, albeit retired. Trust me, you do not want me to program. With a very loose definition, I can program. In fact, I've done a whole lot of programming, all of it horrible.
Eventually, I was able to hire competent programmers, skilled professionals, and those sorry bastards were forced to work on my code base. It was so horrible that they rewrote the entire thing and, quite literally, forbade me from pushing any of my code to production.
Me, the boss and owner, was told I could not push my code into their production version. Their threat was that they'd quit if I continued doing so. Programmers had much more leverage back then. Regardless, I listened to them because that's why I'd hired them. In the future, I'd do a mockup of what I wanted done and they'd implement it for me. It worked out well.
It may also be due to the selection bias. CS degree holders that are good might not be on StackOverflow and thus not answering the survey while simultaneously earning more money. They are ore-selecting based on people needing additional help or people with enough free time to give their time away in exchange for Internet Points.
More skilled people have other things to do, don't need the help, and probably make more money. Basing any major choices on the results from a self-selected survey is not a good idea. Additionally, there are people like me who will get bored and fill your survey in with bullshit for the sole reason of demonstrating why self-selection surveys are a bad idea and not very scientific. I'm not really a middle aged housewife making $12/hour at Starbucks, but if you present a survey to me, I just might pretend to be.
You've never made music, have you? I used to earn extra money as a performance artist and, sometimes, studio musician. I play at a very high level (samples available) and can't even begin to enumerate the number of total hours it takes just to master a single song - and I can play at just about the same speed I can read tab. I play classical guitar, but usually earned money by making faithful reproductions (cover tunes). As in, note perfect reproductions of a studio cut and played better than some of the original artists could do while playing live.
My pedal station totals a half sheet of plywood. My choice of guitars numbers well over 100. I practice with a metronome just to ensure my timing is exact. I no longer play professionally, but I still try to get two hours of practice in, every single day. I've played for more than 45 years.
If you think it is four hours of work, you've never made music. If you need proof of my skill level, and thus my ability to speak authoritatively, I'm more than happy to provide that proof, in this public space. It takes more than four hours, just to master a fairly simple song. Yeah, there is shitty music but evennshitty music, and shitty artists, take quite a bit of time to create the music you like.
However, as I have no financial worries, I don't actually sell my work and don't try to make money with it. So, I don't have any personal qualms about putting my work into the public domain.
Oh, the user you're responding to demonstrates they are unknowledgable in most areas, with alarming frequency. I'm pretty sure they are actually a Windows user who is trying to give Linux a bad name. As absurd as that sounds, it seems the most probable reason. I'm a bit surprised they didn't try to drag politics into it.
Few... Call few three, but we can say up to five is a few. More than that and your at a half dozen.
Linux is also only like 25 years old, maybe 26.
You're saying that you've used Linux since pretty much day one and only had a kernel panic up to five times?
I love me some Linux and have used it for quite a while, with a break in the middle for a different OS. Much of my computer history was with Unix. I am skeptical of your claim. I haven't seen a kernel panic in quite a while, but I've surely seen more than a few of them. If you've only seen a few of them, in at least 24 years, you're either not using Linux or you're a wizard.
You know that and I know that. They may now know that, but they'll conveniently forget and post it again in the very next article about Bill Gates. I've tried informing people, but they don't seem to want to be honest. It's not like it is obscure knowledge. It's not like it hasn't been explained, multiple times and from multiple people. But, still, dishonesty rules the day.
You're giving him a giant piece that has broken away from a nebula and is bigger than a human can imagine while containing more valuable matter than our entire solar system contains?
Fuck, can I have one? I'll be worse than Bill, if you want.
Why not just remap it? Even Windows lets you remap keys. It's a registry edit away, or done with handy software. Given that you mention it as a past action, it was most certainly an option - especially if it was in the era of media keys. I can't vouch for current versions of Windows, but I bet it is still something you can edit.
TIL: The Apple II was released in 1977. MS-DOS was released in 1981. I thought the Apple II was a bit later and that MS-DOS was a bit earlier. I'd thought they were both in/about 1979 - 1980.
I was but a poor college student and the GI Bill didn't pay very much. I was a TRS-80 Model 2 user, at least at home. RadioShack let me get it on credit and there was even insurance on it. With the upgrades and peripherals, I believe the total cost was more than a brand new car. Needless to say, I didn't get all the peripherals at once, but I did get a copy of Zork not long after.
I'm not sure if I paid for it or if I got a copy from someone else?
I seem to recall the floppy disk drive motor spun constantly, even without a diskette in it. Truth be told, computers were pretty horrible back then. Those were not rosy golden years of computing. No, no they were not.
Press the caps lock key. If the light toggles, the computer isn't frozen and the keyboard is still sending inputs. So, you'll know if there is an interrupt. I mostly use(d) it to see if the computer was frozen or just not responding because it was busy. If it toggles, go ahead and wait. If not, reboot it with the switch.
I don't remember the last time I had a computer freeze unintentionally, so I don't use it often. I do know it still works, as I tested it not long ago by using a fork bomb. I believe it works with every OS out there. Well, at least for PCs.
In all these years, I never noticed that. I feel silly/dumb. I just have it memorized as REISUB. Alt+PrintSceen (SysReq) and the letters. I used to know what they each meant but I've long since forgotten and Google is so very far away.
The hockey stick has been soundly debunked and the reality shows no such thing occurring.
Sadly, some of AGW's greatest supporters appear to understand climate science the least.
Yes, the planet is warming. Yes, humans have had an impact. Yes, it is a problem.
No, the hockey stick is absurd and incorrect. The newer models show no such thing, as a general rule. There are, of course, lots of models and lots of ways to tweak them. However, the hockey stick is pretty soundly debunked.
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Valid point, but I can't do so well or in good conscience.
That doesn't really explain why you think it's so bad. I may be missing something, but I don't find it all that terrible? What, specifically, am I missing? You've usually had good opinions in the past, so I respect your opinions. This is a serious question - I'm not sure why it's so harmful in your views, specifically.
I use LXDE, so I presume I have bad taste. I don't even do it for the low resource usage, I do it because I like the features and the way it looks. It's pretty easy to customize and rather stable. So, I use it. It also affords me easy entry into the Ubuntu ecosystem and their resources are vast and easily discoverable.
Meh, stupidity isn't entirely heritable. Though I suppose it does impact the nurture part of it. Besides, without stupid people we'd have nobody to screw up our restaurant orders - then what would we complain about?
It may be a valid whoosh. I was assuming your post was serious.
Some of them use the same basic parts, so you'd really only need to swap out the barrel. There's not a whole lot of them, but they exist. NEF has at least one model, as does Mossberg, The 500 model can be easily used to make a muzzle loader into a regular shotgun. They have a partial list of those firearms on their site.
Oh, good. I was really hoping you didn't mean required watching for me. Hell, make it required viewing for all Apple employees. Just not me... No, not me...
That is remarkably true.
I'm a mathematician, albeit retired. Trust me, you do not want me to program. With a very loose definition, I can program. In fact, I've done a whole lot of programming, all of it horrible.
Eventually, I was able to hire competent programmers, skilled professionals, and those sorry bastards were forced to work on my code base. It was so horrible that they rewrote the entire thing and, quite literally, forbade me from pushing any of my code to production.
Me, the boss and owner, was told I could not push my code into their production version. Their threat was that they'd quit if I continued doing so. Programmers had much more leverage back then. Regardless, I listened to them because that's why I'd hired them. In the future, I'd do a mockup of what I wanted done and they'd implement it for me. It worked out well.
It may also be due to the selection bias. CS degree holders that are good might not be on StackOverflow and thus not answering the survey while simultaneously earning more money. They are ore-selecting based on people needing additional help or people with enough free time to give their time away in exchange for Internet Points.
More skilled people have other things to do, don't need the help, and probably make more money. Basing any major choices on the results from a self-selected survey is not a good idea. Additionally, there are people like me who will get bored and fill your survey in with bullshit for the sole reason of demonstrating why self-selection surveys are a bad idea and not very scientific. I'm not really a middle aged housewife making $12/hour at Starbucks, but if you present a survey to me, I just might pretend to be.
Boiler operators are also engineers. Steam engines were used for more than trains.
You've never made music, have you? I used to earn extra money as a performance artist and, sometimes, studio musician. I play at a very high level (samples available) and can't even begin to enumerate the number of total hours it takes just to master a single song - and I can play at just about the same speed I can read tab. I play classical guitar, but usually earned money by making faithful reproductions (cover tunes). As in, note perfect reproductions of a studio cut and played better than some of the original artists could do while playing live.
My pedal station totals a half sheet of plywood. My choice of guitars numbers well over 100. I practice with a metronome just to ensure my timing is exact. I no longer play professionally, but I still try to get two hours of practice in, every single day. I've played for more than 45 years.
If you think it is four hours of work, you've never made music. If you need proof of my skill level, and thus my ability to speak authoritatively, I'm more than happy to provide that proof, in this public space. It takes more than four hours, just to master a fairly simple song. Yeah, there is shitty music but evennshitty music, and shitty artists, take quite a bit of time to create the music you like.
However, as I have no financial worries, I don't actually sell my work and don't try to make money with it. So, I don't have any personal qualms about putting my work into the public domain.
Until you do...
What's your primary email address and password?
Oh, the user you're responding to demonstrates they are unknowledgable in most areas, with alarming frequency. I'm pretty sure they are actually a Windows user who is trying to give Linux a bad name. As absurd as that sounds, it seems the most probable reason. I'm a bit surprised they didn't try to drag politics into it.
Dozens of years. So, minimum of 24 years.
Few... Call few three, but we can say up to five is a few. More than that and your at a half dozen.
Linux is also only like 25 years old, maybe 26.
You're saying that you've used Linux since pretty much day one and only had a kernel panic up to five times?
I love me some Linux and have used it for quite a while, with a break in the middle for a different OS. Much of my computer history was with Unix. I am skeptical of your claim. I haven't seen a kernel panic in quite a while, but I've surely seen more than a few of them. If you've only seen a few of them, in at least 24 years, you're either not using Linux or you're a wizard.
Sheesh! ;-)
You know that and I know that. They may now know that, but they'll conveniently forget and post it again in the very next article about Bill Gates. I've tried informing people, but they don't seem to want to be honest. It's not like it is obscure knowledge. It's not like it hasn't been explained, multiple times and from multiple people. But, still, dishonesty rules the day.
You're giving him a giant piece that has broken away from a nebula and is bigger than a human can imagine while containing more valuable matter than our entire solar system contains?
Fuck, can I have one? I'll be worse than Bill, if you want.
Why not just remap it? Even Windows lets you remap keys. It's a registry edit away, or done with handy software. Given that you mention it as a past action, it was most certainly an option - especially if it was in the era of media keys. I can't vouch for current versions of Windows, but I bet it is still something you can edit.
Why? Because they're a bad developer, obviously!
I kid, I kid... Or do I?
TIL: The Apple II was released in 1977. MS-DOS was released in 1981. I thought the Apple II was a bit later and that MS-DOS was a bit earlier. I'd thought they were both in/about 1979 - 1980.
I was but a poor college student and the GI Bill didn't pay very much. I was a TRS-80 Model 2 user, at least at home. RadioShack let me get it on credit and there was even insurance on it. With the upgrades and peripherals, I believe the total cost was more than a brand new car. Needless to say, I didn't get all the peripherals at once, but I did get a copy of Zork not long after.
I'm not sure if I paid for it or if I got a copy from someone else?
I seem to recall the floppy disk drive motor spun constantly, even without a diskette in it. Truth be told, computers were pretty horrible back then. Those were not rosy golden years of computing. No, no they were not.
See? They have a long history of being courageous.
Press the caps lock key. If the light toggles, the computer isn't frozen and the keyboard is still sending inputs. So, you'll know if there is an interrupt. I mostly use(d) it to see if the computer was frozen or just not responding because it was busy. If it toggles, go ahead and wait. If not, reboot it with the switch.
I don't remember the last time I had a computer freeze unintentionally, so I don't use it often. I do know it still works, as I tested it not long ago by using a fork bomb. I believe it works with every OS out there. Well, at least for PCs.
In all these years, I never noticed that. I feel silly/dumb. I just have it memorized as REISUB. Alt+PrintSceen (SysReq) and the letters. I used to know what they each meant but I've long since forgotten and Google is so very far away.
No. You'll be fine, more likely than not.
The hockey stick has been soundly debunked and the reality shows no such thing occurring.
Sadly, some of AGW's greatest supporters appear to understand climate science the least.
Yes, the planet is warming. Yes, humans have had an impact. Yes, it is a problem.
No, the hockey stick is absurd and incorrect. The newer models show no such thing, as a general rule. There are, of course, lots of models and lots of ways to tweak them. However, the hockey stick is pretty soundly debunked.
No, you probably won't reach 120 and no, the ocean being too acidic by 2050 is not likely.
Yes, AGW is an issue. No, that's not the likely outcome and certainly isn't the likely outcome in just 30 years.