Beej Jorgensen

I certainly can’t speak for all educators and grade levels, but in my junior and senior CS courses, I don’t have them memorize anything and they gotta solve problems.

What is that core issue, in your opinion?

This is pretty much the only way to verify knowledge. And it’s kind of what interviewers do when they’re thinking about hiring someone for a job, right? Same goal.

One potential avenue that schools have, especially in college, is to let the students know that. You’re not up against the school; you’re up against the interviewer.

This academic year I’m going to try to set up a thing where we do mock interviews with students, hopefully with real interviewers from real companies. I want to show the students where they’re going, and what they really have to get ready for.

In my dream world, we wouldn’t even have grades or diplomas. After all, when we’re learning things on our own we don’t have those and yet somehow we manage to get the job done. But not having grades comes with its own set of problems in this academic structure we’ve set up.

Hypocrisy is considered a strength. So they’re definitely not against it.

I’ve had no joy getting my Brother printer to share over the network with our macs… It seems like the mac sees it for a moment and then it vanishes. The closest Ive come is having the printer wake up when the Mac sent a job, but it didn’t print anything. Prints fine from Linux USB.

Someday I’ll give it a third attempt.

The service can determine what they accept as a password.

And what password manager you use, I think was the poster’s point.

This is why when Republicans claim to be pro-states rights nobody believes them.

XFCE, mostly.

How much does Firefox development cost? The Mozilla Foundation itself has a dearth of friends even among hackers. But Firefox is worth preserving. Could we get enough paying supporters to continue development?

I’ll have to post it all somewhere sometime. None of my passwords are in there, but some of my account names are.

So close on mutt! :)

I have it set up so that it autoconverts all HTML messages to plain text as best as it can. If it’s not good enough, I have a macro set up to launch the HTML version in Firefox so it’s usable. (None of the images come through, which is potentially a feature.)

I did look into writing HTML mail with mutt, and it’s even uglier than reading. The gist of it is to basically have a wrapper script that launches some kind of HTML editor, then builds the multipart message (maybe autoconverting HTML to text so you can have both) and headers, then launches mutt -H email.txt to prepare to send it. If it looks good, send it from Mutt as normal. I don’t know how well this would work with attached inline images, but it sounds potentially quite painful.

But I don’t regularly send HTML messages, so I haven’t bothered with that route. I’d just bring up TB if I had to.

(I can say, for me, since I went back to mutt, I’m happier with email than I’ve been for decades. And my RAM is happier, too. But I probably spent 20 hours configuring it. And everyone probably hates my preformatted text. They get back at me by sending 30 MB HTML-only mails. 🤣)

I don’t disagree about what most people want. Personally, I don’t really care for the features, so I’m an outlier. The one thing I do miss on my 25-year-old Saturn is cruise control.

Plastic panels are awesome, BTW. 25 years and zero door dings.

I really like this concept. Definitely catches my attention. But I think minimalists are in the minority these days.

The absolute best thing about it was that after suffering under Microsoft’s shitty operating systems for years, you were running a Unix-like on your own hardware. That part was amazing.

I built soooo many kernels. 😅

https://archive.ph/5RXO0

Rust has some big binaries due to static linkage, and the Rust coreutils gets around this Busybox-style, compiling everything into one binary that you hard link to. Pretty neat. The project is easy to build and mess with without installing if you’re curious about it. And you could add the build dir to the front of your path if you want to try it out with low risk.

That escalated quickly. Uh… “Bring manufacturing back to America!” Or something.

More like “I’m not paying for DRM books”. If they want my money, they can sell a non-DRM book. I buy those all the time.

Is it DRM-free on bookshop?