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mixmastamykon GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

Another person here is arguing for accessibility, which may have been overlooked.

mixmastamykon GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

Windows did both successfully.

mixmastamykon Get your Windows license refund

Better yet, take your business directly to System 76, Star Labs, Framework, or other FOSS/H-friendly vendors, that give you choices: https://trustworthy.technology/status.html

mixmastamykon U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

The current admin will be gone or dead soon. “Beef prices” are not a factor in the tech industry.

Just a generation or two ago we went to the Moon. Now, you refuse to train an intelligent person with overlapping skills.

Not just a closed mindset, but pure defeatism. Why even get out of bed in the morning, right? Might as well give up now.

Back to reality—I have an acquaintance who started work at JPL and finished her degree while working there. But according to you it’s just not able to be planned for! Thankfully defeatists are not in charge in Pasadena.

mixmastamykon U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

Can’t plan ahead one month? Give me a break, you can do better than that.

mixmastamykon U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

Good thing you planned ahead and trained a person last month, so they're able to start today.

People in the recent past were not so short-sighted.

mixmastamykon Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime in 'Transformers,' Dies at 85

Was a bit too old for Transformers when it became popular but even watching a few mins here and there was enough to imprint Optimus’ voice on me. When they hired him for the movies I thought, well of course they did.

Believe that puts him in the same league as James Earl Jones as Mufasa. RIP

mixmastamykon U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

Want me to agree that training takes time? Ok, but what a boring revelation. It doesn’t take much time in the grand scheme of things. I can read a substantial book each week, for example. Give a person a half ~salary and let them study and train for a month +/-, they’ll be ready to contribute.

mixmastamykon U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

It’s an investment.

mixmastamykon U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

That’s fine.

mixmastamykon Tim Curry has died

Which ending do you prefer?

mixmastamykon U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

With training (remember that?) and practice, one could vastly improve. It’s called a growth mindset.

mixmastamykon U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

Millions depending on how you cut it.

mixmastamykon Tim Curry has died

^Shelley Fabares.

mixmastamykon Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

It’s about as near a well-documented fact as there is in this industry, and not intended to be an insult. Sometimes we need a wake-up call, and yes they’re not usually enjoyable. I know as well as anyone else, having received my share over the years.

mixmastamykon Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

There’s still a great difference in requirements between small and large scale development.

mixmastamykon Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

Type hints are very helpful on big projects. And are enforced by other tools. Honestly, this kind of criticism shows a lack of experience, and denial of reality for an almost 40 year old language.

It sounds like scoffing at a Silver medalist to me.

In fact, Python is better at what it does than almost anything from the era. That’s why we use it. Nothing is ever going to be perfect because better solutions are emergent, and reverse time travel does not exist.

mixmastamykon CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

Recently noticed it is on flatpak as well, so can use from my tablet.

mixmastamykon Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

Not every improvement is perfect, that’s true. I in particular fought against walrus syntax and don’t use pattern matching for other reasons. Python is also boxed in by its history. Some of the things you want done are incongruent with its design.

Many people like them however. And you’re being way too charitable to that dumbass comment.

mixmastamykon Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

Yes, that's a Path object from pathlib. It has been around for while but likely still qualifies, site says from 3.4.

mixmastamykon Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

You mentioned two biggies, but also the GIL removal, async, performance improvements, f-string, walrus, fast dicts w. merge ops, data classes, pattern matching, friendlier repl, and hundreds of smaller yearly improvements.

mixmastamykon New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

Running useful models locally with privacy would be a great selling point. We're not quite there, but the next five years should be interesting.

mixmastamykon Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

Lol, Python has had incredible improvements over the last decade plus, while uv fixed packaging. It's the best/comprehensive glue language ever made, even with a few remaining warts.

mixmastamykon I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

Indeed, I speak from experience. Generalists like myself are unfavored as well, it seems.

mixmastamykon A website for debloated open source alternatives

It’s small for a truck.

mixmastamykon A website for debloated open source alternatives

https://github.com/opencloud-eu

Opencloud is a nextcloud analog rewritten in golang.

mixmastamykon I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

That may have worked at the time, but no companies are interested in learning projects today. If you didn’t do the reqs list for the last 5-10 years with the same title, forget about it. Because there are dozens of folks who have, lined up. No one is indulging career changers (and most fresh grads) for the time being.

mixmastamykon The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)

Was the norm in the 70s, and into the early 80s. My memory is that the turning point to quick cuts was after MTV and music videos became popular (1982+). I remember old folks complaining about the “attention span” of young people.

Watching the old movies today, I do think that the 70s films are too slow and 90s+ films too aggressive with cuts. Would be nice to balance, or have important scenes breathe while others get chopped. Most movies are too long these days as well.

The film itself was criticized as “Blade Crawler” back in the day.

mixmastamykon Why travellers are obsessed with foreign supermarkets

Interesting. A few weeks ago we were running out of food and ended up with a can of tuna with olive oil over spaghetti and sauce. Despite my initial misgivings it was surprisingly good.

mixmastamykon Finger: the 1971 social network that never died

I could see that, thanks. However OP mentioned the mid-nineties and I was working then. No one was printing out logs or saying "glass teletype" at that time. Twenty years earlier, sure, or maybe some elderly curmudgeons working at a conservative bank/govt installation perhaps.

To answer the sibling post below, I had a 1GB drive at home around that time, enough to store text logs cheaply. Logrotate is apparently from 1996.