Rhaedas

I think there’s some that go through that dwindling urge to keep going. But there are also the ones that you describe, the “oh, new shiny thing”.

Add Hawkeye to this now.

It’s true of a lot of things. If you compare it to woodworking or auto repair, you don’t learn much by just doing random cuts or undoing and reattaching a part. Having a purpose helps the understanding and retention of that knowledge. And the opposite is true too - a skill or knowledge can fade if not used regularly. I hate going into old code, or for that matter working on part of a car I haven’t messed with for a while. I have to relearn and remember what I knew before. Sometimes it comes back fast, sometimes I have to retravel the road of looking it up.

I really hate the ones that I ALMOST remember, can almost see it, and the harder I try to focus the blurrier it gets.

Kokoro was the one I was going to mention. I played around with it a bit, was very impressed with the speed and quality. And then I realized I had been using it in CPU mode. GPU is incredible.

Mint is one of the more “Windows-like” versions of Linux. The deal breaker for Linux usually isn’t the OS, but what software you’ll run on the OS, and often a crucial one will be MS Office and compatibility with the proprietary junk that comes with it. If you need just a spreadsheet and word processor and they don’t have to be 100% MS compatible, then LibreOffice will work fine (even ON WIndows). If it’s other types of software, then see if they have a Linux option, or if there’s success in using Wine or Lutris to run it on Linux.

Linux won’t be without some learning curve, but it’s not nearly as steep as it used to be. I spent years occasionally playing with dual boots of different distros but not really using them, but last year found some things that would run better on Linux (I started by using WSL on Windows but it’s so slow because of what it is). Now I’ve all but completely remove my Windows partition, everything important is now moved over to my Ubuntu and I do not want to go back now.

Never saw these, the first one seemed pretty tame and one of those “you’re reading too much into this” for those suggesting anything more than a sibling relationship. Good lord, the second was hilarious. When it began the extended part I was like, uh, yeah that seems a bit weird. Then it went off the cliff. lol

Another alternate timeline. They had the potential, but life got in the way. And murder.

What?

A great episode. The greenwashing that’s been done by all these companies is amazing.

Started with Netscape core, won’t deviate.

Things I’m not surprised about:

• that someone remembering would mention it

• that the home site for it looks like it’s from 1997

Things I’m surprised about:

• Lynx is still supported (the oldest browser that is)

• that the latest version number is so low

• that someone mentioning it wouldn’t also say they use Arch btw

Some early episodes have to be taken with some leniency as the show was just starting to work out the characters and ideas. Much like a TOS fan would watch the pilot episode and see Spock very animated and even smiling at one point and just shrug it off knowing that’s not how he ends up.

I’ve only found success in LLM code (local) with smaller, more direct sections. Probably because it’s pulling from its training data the most repeated solutions to such queries. So for that it’s like a much better Google lookup filter that usually gets to the point faster. But for longer code (and it always wants to give you full code) it will start to drift and pull things out of the void, much like in creative text hallucination but in code it’s obvious.

Because it doesn’t understand what it’s telling you. Again, it’s a great way to mass filter Stack Overflow and Reddit answers, but remember in the past when searching through those, that can work well or be a nightmare. Just like then, don’t take any answer and just plug it in, understand why that might or might be a working solution.

It’s funny, I’ve learned a lot of my programming knowledge through the decades by piecing things together and in the debugging of my own or other’s coding, figured out what works. Not the greatest way to do it, but I learn best through necessity than without a purpose. But with LLM coding that goes wild, debugging has its limits, and there have been minor things that I’ve just thrown out and started over because the garbage I was handed was total BS wrapped up in colorful paper.

Meanwhile that little block at the bottom is still doing its best to keep it all together. For now.

As a Mbin user, appreciate him being in the right place at the right time, even if his coding wasn’t fully “ready” for the sudden task and he couldn’t continue the work himself. That he made it open source for others to take and run with made a huge difference. Glad he’s doing okay.

Some songs work better for this than others. My first realization of this was the scene from Night Shift, where he has The Rolling Stones’ “Jumping Jack Flash” on a looped cassette in his car.

Probably can count on one hand any tech or other thing from Black Mirror that’s a good thing overall.

This is why I diversify into all types of scifi and fantasy.