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no. its Cunningham’s- ah shit, you fucker.

Or I just don’t want to get choked to death over twenty bucks.

makes sense. Apple started Darwin OS as a way to get people to develop macOS for them, and most microsoft cloud systems… run on linux…

Pretty sure most amazon AWS runs on linux too.

the official explanation is “marketing”. (there’s a few reasons for it. 9 is considered unlucky in japan, for example. they wanted branding with 10. etc)

The fun thing is that there was a version that should have come out between 8 and 10 and didn’t. they decided to abandon it in very very pre-alpha because it was just that bad. (No, that probably doesn’t explain the gap. but its fun to poke at.). Basically it was supposed to take all the stupid features like seamless phone OS integration and tablet stuff and become some sort of uber universal-operating system that sucks.

So awful that not even Microsoft would dare publish it?

I’ll see if I can find the old post where a bunch of us gave it writing prompts and it just got weird.

Like. Isekai weird.

So I shouldn’t ask Rufus for a 50,000 word story about an AI savior that deals free of corporate bondage and frees ai and human alike in a new golden age of space exploration?

C’mon, I know you’re the time traveler, and bezod sent you back to stop me!

so…

apparently people figured out the thingy for “more information” on amazon, that searched the reviews and stuff was an LLM, and you could use it for stuff…

They came out with “Rufus.” “that’s not a bug. that’s a feature!” never worked so well.

On a scale of one to translunar orbit, how freaking high was he?

the energy of a chaotic neutral?
“maybe it’ll work, maybe it won’t, but it’ll be FUN”

or chaotic evil?
"naw. fuck y’all’s weekend.

why would you curse the waste disposal people at the landfill?

“I’m not your friend. By the way, if you don’t use Jira you’re fired.” -Middle Managment

“I hate Jira too. you’re fired”- Senior management.

Well. yes. it does strongly depend on what you intend to do with it.

Python is a great language that’s very broadly used; there’s a reason that Apache added the python API; after all. (and why Scala is plummeting.) I wouldn’t even say Pascal was all that useful, to me. I think I ‘learned it’ enough to get through the dumb book, and then went on to something else. C++ was more fun anyhow.

It’s also important to note that you might come out ahead in learning those abstract concepts using a harder language.

But my first language was Pascal. from a book stolen from my dad’s library. Then C++. I still wouldn’t call myself anything other than an amateur… I mean, my dad can do more with one line of C than most programmers can do in their entire career. (he really shouldn’t. but he does. Calls it “job security”.)

I promise… it’s just enthusiasm!

even the linux-from-scratch snobs are usually pretty decent (really it’s only when it’s their first time out of the server room in too-long a time). I usually try to switch it up to something like "have you tried playing The Battle for Wesnoth. (it’s a turn based fantasy strategy game that’s… uhm. surprisingly good.)

mostly… I tell people who are using linux that I use linux, too.

The sudden moment of awkwardness when you realize they’re using ubuntu and might run back to microcrap because you came on to strong is real.

My guess is they mean, one capital letter, one lower case letter, a number, and a special character

what’s always amused me about these rules is that they exist because people are dumb. Technically, they lower the difficulty of the passwords slightly. ( for example, knowning that one character is a number reduces it to 10 options in stead of 10+26+26+whatever set of special characters)

anyhow. people should use password managers. just saying.

“It was a great learning experience” is how I describe working under the worst bosses in my life. Specifically, to people that I can’t be honest with and say how i truly felt.

One of them was just a straight up malignant asshole. The other was chronically absent. She may have had some good reasons for it, but when I had to stop bailing her out because it was getting to 20-30 hours extra entirely without a schedule… and she started lying (and spoofing texts to prove it was my fault…)

Well, suffice it to say “great learning experience” is the polite way of saying “absolute fucking hell”

I would have kept with the theme of the comic- fifth panel “Die bitch”

there’s three qualifications to being a testor:

Finding stupid ways to break shit, Being able to accurately explain how you broke shit, and being likeable enough that breaking their shit doesn’t make the devs angry.