Don't mind me. Just trying to debug web application software with dependencies measuring /IN EXCESS/ of 28000 lines of uncommented Typescript and Javascript.
@enkiv2 π€ . o O ( Inverted lectures? Isn't that just a different way of saying "office hours"? )
I rather like what MIT is doing here. "Here's a bunch of videos on the topic, and we'll just use this class time for answering specific questions you might have." I hope that experiment bears fruit!
@graydon It's OK; no worries, I knew what you were going for. :)
Thank you for the kind words. Ultimately, I blame life-at-large (especially my advancing age and the requirement to work) for draining me of any initiative these days.
Quickly coming to hate Typescript with an incinerating passion. Nothing like combining Javascript with the worst parts of event-driven programming with the worst-parts of functional syntax with the worst parts of object oriented syntax combined with having to maintain the project *cold* to just effin' RUIN your day. π‘
this is a good thread about how consumers are made to feel guilty about something that they actually have next to no control over, which is the widespread use and abuse of plastics in literally every commercial product we buy
it's one of the great lies that our civilization perpetuates, the bizarre notion that enormous trillion-dollar industries controlled by a tiny number of extremely wealthy individuals, people who buy themselves entire governments and news organizations, _somehow_ does all of its evil work at the behest of the all-powerful _consumer_
and therefore it is the _consumer_ to blame for what products are made in the world, what materials are used, what conditions the laborers suffer, all of it. all of these things are supposedly within the power of "consumers" to change
@enkiv2 This is an amazing article. I've seen plenty of "why I don't like Go" articles elsewhere, but rarely are they so cogent, poignant, and yet, respectful all at the same time.
@amiloradovsky@ND3JR I have similar issues. If I have the time, I lack initiative. If I have the initiative, I lack the time. Only rarely do the two prerequisites of time and initiative overlap. If I could somehow cajole myself to working on the project during those phases where I have the time but no initiative, I could make more progress.
But, that also opens one up to burn-out; having the time but no initiative is the definition of "chore". ;)
@graydon As for the activity being nourishing, I've been working on the #KestrelComputerProject since 2004 in one shape or another; it's not going anywhere soon.
I did walk away from it once before, after much distress with trying to get pseudo-SDRAM working in the design. Left it for a year and a half, in fact.
But, that was a decision I couldn't live with myself with, so I came back and resurrected the project.
@SoniEx2 The overwhelming majority of complexity in the software I've maintained over the years has in no small part stemmed from using some tool to achieve a goal for which it was fundamentally ill suited for.
If we never reinvented the wheel, our cars would still be riding on wooden wagon wheels.
I put the Debian 10 RC on my main workstation, and β knock on wood β it's been rock solid so far. I'm incredibly happy with it. The only major modification I've done has been replacing Gnome with i3wm.
Believe it or not, after 26 years of constant Linux use, this is my first time running Debian. It's a great first impression. If you're on the Debian team, please let me buy you a beer, won't you?
@SuperFloppies@jeffcliff Coreboot wouldn't have bricked my box for trying to boot Ubuntu. UEFI actually *did*. Actions speak louder than words on a whitepaper somewhere.
@SuperFloppies Proprietary? Yes. Brickable? Only when reflashing. I grew up with PCs from the first Compaqs to today. After a successful flash, if it booted once, it'd always boot. No muss, no fuss.
With UEFI, whole new classes of user hostilities aren't just enabled, but actively encouraged. I am well aware of what UEFI bills itself to be. I'm equally aware of what it's become in practice.