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Ahh - I think that was my issue ... I wanted to stop junk mail, but not mail addressed to me. I still wanted to be able to 'important' stuff...

Unfortunately, that means you still get everything addressed to 'resident'... Last time I checked, there was no way to stop those at all :-/

I just got a p.o. box and pretend my mailbox doesn't exist

Call me old fashioned...but I've always like Carmack. The dude has done _everything_ :-D

1. Learn you slicer settings! Support setting in particular can make a huge difference

2. Different brands of filament may need different printing temperatures.

3. Use printables, thingiverse, cult3d, yeggi, etc to find models to print :-)

4. ABS fumes are poisonous (formaldehyde)

Yeah ... the Camel book was awesome. I remember being amazed how fast it got you writing really useful perl scripts.

Larry Wall would agree :-D

Nice :-) It looks like a cool project ... My personal 'wish' would be a split keyboard with an 'electric eraser' setup as a thumb stick. Trackball/thumball would be second best. I agree having to reach for the mouse really slows stuff down...

Not my thing - but looks like a nice project :-) I noticed your profile mentioned being an 'aspiring developer' - it's really cool to see people jump in and code tools/stuff that is useful to them :-)

I'm not a cpp coder, so I can't speak to the code - but I didn't notice any tests (sorry if I missed them). That might be a good addition ?

edit: I noticed you mention psychology in your profile. Might be interesting to hear your thoughts on UI design/interaction ?

That used to be ReiserFS's claim to fame - tail packing small files. Doesn't seem like any FS has really optimized small file handling since then.

I just can't get into the web based ones...I don't know why but they all seem slow and clunky to me. One thing I didn't like about alibre is the lack of Linux (or Mac) version, as I plan on ditching MS once my win10 box is unusable - I have no interest in that new AI crap MS is adding.

I did the free trial and it seemed ok - but I had too many bad habits from fusion...one thing that always tripped me up was the limit of 1 sketch per 'part'(?). It seemed to enforce 'best practices' much more then Fusion does, and I just tinker with hobby projects. They were very attentive though, and even called a few times to see how I was doing...

Also, I really liked the 1 time purchase vs. subscription

Alibre (1) seems pretty popular with makers (good cnc support?). Not OSS but its a one time $200 purchase - sorta surprising you can still buy software these days :-P Alibre is more of a professional tool like Fusion 360, so there is some learning curve.

1. https://www.alibre.com/

oh sorry ... I'm guessing its too late to edit it now

Given all the talk about moderation in social media, I thought people might be interested in Advogato an early experiment in web-of-trust based communties. Kuro5hin(1) is another one that might be of interest...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin

yeah - I think 'old' being someone older then yourself is basically the dictionary definition of it :-P

I wish there was more info on the homepage... what is special about FydeOS? is it a chromium clone ? an RTOS ? Does it support Networking (it seems to support some sort of graphics, as it mentions builds for various intel chips).

We have sooo many choices for fun new OS's lately: Genode, Haiku, QNX, bunches of RTOS's. So many choices, soo little time :-P

yeah - the 'data display' part was the real killer feature :-)

oh nice - reminds me of DDD(1) DDD was like magic first time I saw it. Oh wow - DDD is still maintained ?? :-D

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Display_Debugger

2 https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/

Hehe..that was pretty good :-)

Dactyls look interesting too (1). Personally, I'm thinking an 'electric eraser' mounted as a thumb stick would be good too.

1. https://github.com/trentrand/ergonomic-keyboard

>> Thanks for playing Wing Commander!

captain america voice I got that reference :-)

LOL - I like that one! :-)

Heh - even great whites can't stand LEDs :-P

Hmm - I'm not sure those sorts of things would require a fork per se, but I can see making it more familiar to windows/mac users could be a good thing. I was just curious as I was a big KDE fan back when I used Linux full time, and wondered what had changed.

The two biggest issues I'd have with Linux full time would be audio and video. I haven't even attempted to run Linux audio in like 5-10 years - it was always so titchy with multiple 'standards' to configure. Video was not quite as bad, as I don't game much so I just needed basic functionality. But now I have multiple 4k monitors, high dpi, and all that jazz, I don't know how big a pain it would be. I just run linux in VMs (standard device drivers and setup) or ssh into a linux server for now.

What exactly would change ? Only thing I can think of 'normal' users using is ctrl-c/ctrl-v which already work in KDE (even ctrl-win-arrow for virtual desktops could be configured without a fork.)? Different icons/shortcuts wouldn't require forking KDE...Not sure what else you'd change?

Will Photon be available as well ?

Isn't she a martial arts champion? I don't think she'd murder easy... :-P

Umm...unless I added wrong - that ~ $5700/month, which is 68K/year. While commenable - I don't think your surviving on $60K/year ??

Gotta Love Derek... "Things I won't work with" actually got me to read some of his other stuff about how drug development and trials work.

Yeah - I find it 'odd' that people think they should be able to get a job in a month or with only sending out 20 resumes...Things have been so good the last 10+ years, that seems to be the 'new normal' and now its tightened up again, people are shocked.

I always figure 3-6 months to find a good position, probably because I started in the 80s and remember all the tight job markets between then and now. For me, 3-6 months seemed to be 'normal'.

I guess its a huge shock when all you've seen are the 'good times', but all fields/careers go thru boom-bust cycles. I seem to recall hearing we had a glut of lawyers and new grads couldn't find work.