Vic 20 was my first. I watched my dad struggle with and eventually give up on assembly. Something-something and the microbots. I was fearful of it until I took Assembly at Uni. That 2nd/3rd year class was where the final puzzle piece of how computers work fell in place for me.

My first job was writing assembly tests for a DSP hardware design team. Fell in love. Never looked back.

Could probably replace managers with AI, but being trained on most managers would mean it would be equally bad at its job.

I think the most likely is for the artists jobs to go away as art doesn’t have to be exact, but code does.

No one was able to replicate the level of health complications from the movie. Apparently he was a raging alcoholic.

Alcohol kills. McDonalds is just sorta bad.

The Princess Bride

If you have seen it. You are happy to watch again. If you haven’t, you will love it.

I just typoed it because I am a damn human.

Crap on my head, sorry, I literally typed it out like we lost a damn war.

Thanks for correcting.

It is a hard problem.

Look at the monumental effort Debian went through (or hell maybe they are also still working on it) http://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

Here I thought it was based on the fact that humans are the worst and it is best to harness what little you can lest they take everything.

Chip R&D. We only use 1’s, 0’s if management is feeling generous. There are no circles, no need for pi.

I wonder about this too. And instead of a secondary, backup android, can’t we just emulate andoid in a vm/container under linux? Sounds crazy, but it isn’t really.

Perfect!

I also used CHDK on my way old PowerShot elph. Amazed this stuff is still going.

If you code adding the current branch to your shell prompt will change your world.

Also, if you are getting good use out of find, you should learn to pipe the output to GNU parallel. Put those cores to work!

Interesting, if old, article.

“slides into irrelevance” - zdnet

For deeply nerdy computer/network/IT/programming: On the Metal

Only 2 seasons, but some great interviews.

I’m not sure why you are getting downvoted. I’m optimistic for the same reasons and I think you are right about rapid growth being dangerous.

Linux was slow growth, not to mention GNU, but it is so good, and attracted the right kind of contribuitors.

Running these services has a cost and surely over the time it takes to grow, solutions will emerge. It is best to recognize those challenges and address them.

Well I hope so. Occasionally our nerd stuff leaks out into the world and does some real good. Maybe advertising is only needed to keep shareholders never-ending drive for profits. Wikipedia seems to do ok. I really do hope I’m wrong, but I think you are just being too optimistic, maybe it is because I’m old.

People donate time, and some people host servers and pay bills because they can. I don’t think the whole point of federation is amortizing the costs across instances, but it is a perk. Most people want to know what to join, which is why lemmy.world got so big, so fast. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’ll bet their donations do not match their costs.

Mastodon is totally cool, I’m on board, but normies don’t know what it is.

I’m just being realiatic here.

I’m an OSS guy, but running these services is not free. Someone is paying for bandwidth, power, hardware, etc.