TimeSquirrel

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

Put your money where your mouth is and open source the Tesla software. Do it. I fuckin' dare ya.

Edit: we want Falcon 9's landing guidance software too.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

We gotta figure out a better way than strapping ourselves to a continuously exploding bomb and pulling some serious Gs for 8 minutes.

Wonder how some of those SSTO space plane projects are doing...there was a British one I can't remember. Used hybrid air-breathing scramjets, switching to internal oxidizer once it was going fast and high enough.

Edit: here is is and I was mistaken it's not a SCRAMjet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

Yeah but...most people's grandparents aren't going to be riding rockets. This isn't sustainable for widespread access to space.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

Switched in 2002...because I wanted to fuck with web dev and IIS sucks donkey nads. LAMP stack good, IIS/ASP/MSSql bad.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

I'm sure the FBI and Secret Service are doing some overtime today too.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

The only way to truly make a determination if a distro works for you is to actually try it out and use it. I've never listened to those people because they all have a favorite distro they will push on you for various reasons. I actually find Debian a breeze to use, and the vast majority of stuff meant for Ubuntu or Mint will work on fine on Debian, since it's the base of both those distros.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

If you don't notice anything else different between x11 and Wayland in your daily workflow and have no need for what Wayland offers, then yes your problem is solved and you can ignore the implications.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

I mean, you wouldn't buy a sports car and then a month later post to a forum asking questions about how to tow a 40 foot camper with it, would you? You would research this stuff beforehand, or deal with the fact that it's not compatible for that job. We can't put Nvidias thumbs into a thumbscrew and force them to offer more Linux support, so that's what we're stuck with.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

For me it doesn't really "fix" anything that I can notice. All my games and software work fine in x11, video works fine. It may be a giant convoluted beast from the 1980s, but damn if they didn't do a good job of keeping it running well on modern machines.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

Mint is OK for beginners, but definetly not for me, old ass pakages due to the Ubuntu LTS base

What does that say about me, a guy who's been using Linux since 2001 and uses Debian Stable? At a certain point you get sick and tired of dealing with bleeding edge bugs and just want a reliable, generic, standardized system you can depend on every day.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

ASCII art does count as graphics I guess.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

Reject Mint, embrace Debian.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

Ok...someone do this but in an Atari 2600 theme. I wanna see what loot boxes and modern gaming shit would look in 160x192 128 color resolution.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

At some point I think some devs might be refactoring a switch-case into an if-else and calling it an "update" to troll downstreams.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

Me, the mystery dude in the game server who doesn't have a mic, doesn't use any voice features, never text chats, but always shows up and plays.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

I say it like "pwn". As in, if I'm sitting here chown-ing your shit, you're pretty much pwned.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

This is only true if you’re still using a 32 bit cpu

Bank switching to "fake" the ability to access more address space was a big thing in the 80s...so it's technically possible to access addresses that are wider than the address bus by dividing it up into portions that it can see.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0dBnSObeeGg

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

This comic strip always weirded me out. It's like the Veggie Tales of comic strips.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

Real pros check every line for malware

Noob. How can you trust the underlying libraries and assembly code those functions/methods are coming from? Better get a debugger and watch those CPU registers while it's running.

TimeSquirrel , vor einem Monat

So math is like painting, you can just arbitrarily add a splash of color somewhere to change the mood..

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

No, OutKast, not Lil Jon.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

The race never stopped. You buy an Apple II. It works for a while. Then everyone is running Lotus 1-2-3 so you gotta get an expensive 386. Now Windows 3.1 and 95 is the standard, and you need Internet too so you buy a modem and a Pentium machine for a couple grand. It's okay for a while. Then downloads take longer and longer, and your computer gets slower again, so you upgrade to 6mbps cable internet and an AMD athlon/Pentium 4, and Windows XP. It's okay for a while. But then games and software no longer fit on a CD ROM. They're using DVDs, and the space they take up on your HD is approaching tens of GB. Suddenly you need to upgrade to 25mbps internet and a terabyte drive to keep up with the space requirements and updates/service packs. You're on a multi core CPU now because nobody fucking optimizes shit anymore and assumes you have the horsepower to deal with it. Then they get rid of physical media altogether. Now you're stuck downloading a fucking several hundred gigabyte game or piece of software on a 100+mbps connection to do largely the same shit we did on that Apple II in 1980. Your system RAM alone can now hold all software ever made for that Apple II with plenty room to spare.

I get why a lot of retirees in the industry want to burn their computers and take up farming.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

Yeah I love it, Debian feels like opening a featureless gray box that just says "OS" on the front. Add whatever you want. A blank canvas. It's as close to "generic" Linux as you can get.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

The aliens: https://i.imgur.com/VjPfMw8.gif

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

Uh oh, you're on a laptop. Now you gotta pull the ass end out of it too.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

the superior text editor

I never stopped, I'm still using Nano.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

$ tar -xzvf thong.tar.gz -C ~/package/

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

Conditioning everyone to see their computers as media consumption kiosks instead of the powerful, productive machines they are. That's where MS OSes are headed. They tried too early with Windows 8 Metro, but they haven't lost sight of that concept.

"My TV shows ads so it's only natural my computer does too." - I bet a lot of people already think like this.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

Shit. Password expired due to company policies. Oh well, hunter3 it is now.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

There are some commonly used programming algorithms and snippets that have been in use and unchanged from their original C code since the 70s and 80s, because they do exactly the thing they are supposed to do, and nobody has come up with a better way of doing it. I have a fast hash function in a program of mine that was written by a guy in the early 2000s who was benchmarking various existing hash algorithms of the time, and that same function is still used in hundreds of other pieces of software.

I don't know of entire full programs that are like this though.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

<3 Debian network install image.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

Hold on a second. That looks like more than 640x480 and definitely more than 16 colors. Blasphemy!

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

My kid discovered that he can hit the "report" button on the YouTube app on the TV to skip the ads immediately. So now every ad gets reported as "inappropriate".

I'm proud of him.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

Yeah at some point, you want to do work on your computer, not work on your computer.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

Isn't that what a hierarchical string of them are called?

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

There may be a thin cloud layer or two on Jupiter you might enjoy.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

Why did you mention Debian twice?

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

Keeping it closed source so no-one could see what sacrilege he’d done to get there

I often feel this way about my own code. Yeah I wanna share but...I don't want to get torn apart by 10x developers. There's a lot of things I'm ashamed of.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

"PC" actually refers to a specific architecture based on the original IBM PC. PCs are personal computers but not all personal computers are PCs.

It'd be like as if we still referred to ARM-based devices as being "Acorn" devices. It's one of those brand names that the public has turned into a generalized noun, like Kleenex and Bandaids.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

They can see the entire URL, not just the domain. They just can't see the contents themselves. But they can still see "dudesfuckingfurniture.com/gettingfreakywithadresser.mpeg"

Edit: I might be wrong

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

After more research, you might be right. I could have sworn I saw full URLs in my router logs on encrypted sites though. I'll have to check again.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

As always on the Internet, rule 34 applies.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

Yeah, I corrected myself.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

and you can’t see where it’s supported from the inside.

Also, they’re absolutely full of self-tapping screws.

I think I just figured out a way to see where they are supported from on the inside...

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

What? No, I just mean to give the original creator of the game the credit he deserves. It was originally stolen from him.

TimeSquirrel , vor 2 Monaten

That person is me. Asperger's is a hell of a drug.