Escaped university lecturer. Making #Proxima, the "completely different" desktop OS. Background: physics, informatics/comp sci. BSc (Hons), BCS (Dux).
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"Our department needs more funding" is a secret code.
It means: "our solution is dumb, and brute-forcing it has exponential costs."
No wonder Windows and Mac users find Linux distros confusing.
The xubuntu live bootable installer displays a user-friendly notification, telling the user to quit the installer and install OS updates, during installation.
But the OS updates aren't for the OS being installed, they're for the temporary boot image used during the install. You're not supposed to update that. Any user who follows the instructions and installs these 'updates,' then reboots to apply them, will find that they're wiped on reboot.
As with most Linux distros, the correct answer is usually to ignore the instructions.
There WAS hope for a future without AI.
There are good people in the world. They saw the evil in the world. They tried to help others see. Some boomers told them to shut up.
AI is the last hope.
Star Wars was based on a true story.
During WW2, German dams were protected by torpedo nets and gun towers. An engineer figured out that by flying planes level along the surface of the canal (height triangulated by spotlights), spinning a mine up to 500rpm and then releasing the mine at a precise distance, the spinning device would skim over the torpedo nets and roll down the dam wall to reach the foundations of the dam.
The Death Star trench run scenes in Star Wars used dialogue from The Dam Busters (1955) as a homage to the origin story.
Saw The Dam Busters for the first time, expecting a regular war movie.
It might be one of the most relatable movies about engineering ever made.
When you're inventing a new solution from scratch, you need to be willing to try again, and again, and again x50 before you get your first success.
The whole time you're surrounded by normies who insist that new ideas are supposed to be "debunked" and thrown away if they didn't work the first time.
Saw The Dam Busters for the first time, expecting a regular war movie.
It might be one of the most relatable movies about engineering ever made.
When you're inventing a new solution from scratch, you need to be willing to try again, and again, and again x50 before you get your first success.
The whole time you're surrounded by normies who insist that new ideas are supposed to be "debunked" and thrown away if they didn't work the first time.
So I have a rule that if somebody responds to me with a clown face emoji it means there's something wrong with them.
Good time to think about how many of society's *other* trusted experts are just posers who've learned to act confident without contributing value.
What if there's always been this much cognitive dissonance and we're only noticing it's a problem as we move out of the dark ages of one-way media?
Have you noticed people are becoming immune to manipulation?
Boomers: "Oh no! I'd better do what the salesman says. What if the information superhighway arrives and I'm not teletext-ready?"
Zoomers: "cap"
Somebody called ages2001 has created a USB driver stack for DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, etc.
This is a big deal because previously, Windows 98 was the first Windows to work with USB.
Retro computing enthusiasts couldn't use earlier versions without needing to do really janky things to get their files across.
github.com/ages2001/WINUSB/
