lhamil64

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[–] lhamil64 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The professor that taught my algorithms & data structures course said if we were going to keep one book it should be the one for that course. I followed that advice and it's the one textbook I still have. It's been 8 years since graduation and I haven't opened it once. I tend to just read Wikipedia if I need to understand a particular algorithm or data structure.

[–] lhamil64 4 points 6 months ago

I first got into Linux because I was a kid with an old hand-me-down laptop that was meant to run Windows 98 but I somehow stuffed Windows XP on there (it had a 4gb HDD and it was filled to the brim, I'm shocked in hindsight that it actually installed). Then I discovered Ubuntu (I think version 6.06?) and installed it, and it ran great! Once I got newer computers I ended up using Windows primarily but usually had a Linux PC kicking around. In college I started dual booting my main machine since Linux proved to be useful for my courses (Computer Science). Then I built a PC and just installed Windows 10 on it, but now that my 7th gen Intel CPU is "too old" to run Windows 11, I said screw it and installed Linux again. Plus I just really like having a bash shell natively, and a proper package manager is really nice.

[–] lhamil64 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have a Surface Pro 4 (I think from 2015) and the battery life now is awful. I might be able to get an hour or two depending on the performance mode, I usually just plug it in while using it now. If I forget to plug it in between uses, it will definitely be dead the next time I go to use it.

Plus it's starting to feel pretty slow. I do still have Windows on it, perhaps installing Linux would help make it faster but it sounds like it takes some work to get everything working properly so I haven't bothered.

[–] lhamil64 1 points 6 months ago

No, I mean doesn't it only look for updates of the current tag? That works fine if you set every container to the "latest" tag, but if you set your containers to specific version tags then you won't get a notification unless that specific tag gets updated.

[–] lhamil64 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That will just pull the latest image though right? I.e., if you explicitly have a container on a tag for v1.2.3, it wouldn't upgrade you when v1.2.4 is released right?

[–] lhamil64 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

But if time travel is a thing, imagine the whole new time nightmares! Oh you went back a year with your phone? Now all your TLS root certs are invalid because you're before the start date. Or you have files/emails/whatever that are dated in the future. I guess you can get to that state by just setting your clock forward but I imagine some stuff would break.

[–] lhamil64 1 points 7 months ago

I learned this when I got an electric toothbrush. It only has room for about a pea sized blob and it's surprising how far it goes.

[–] lhamil64 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Rereading it, I now understand what you meant. I interpreted the "like regex" as an example of advanced git knowledge. I'm not sure the comma helps make it unambiguous though.

[–] lhamil64 10 points 8 months ago (9 children)

How is regex git knowledge? I guess you can use regular expressions with git grep but it's certainly not a git-oriented concept...

[–] lhamil64 11 points 8 months ago

Boolean is named after George Boole so that is too, sort of

[–] lhamil64 2 points 8 months ago

From a quick Google, yes they do, because the muscles relax.

[–] lhamil64 2 points 8 months ago

I one time woke up at like 3am and mindlessly went through my whole morning routine (ate breakfast, showered, got dressed). Then I realized it was 3am and had like 5 hours before work... I think I just went back to bed

 

Another post on here inspired me to ask about this. I recently got my license (General) and am thinking of how to get an antenna setup for HF. The issue is that I live in an apartment on the ground floor. I do have a patio that's about 10'x5' with the "ceiling" (the bottom of the unit above me) at about 7-8 ft.

What I'm tentatively thinking is that I have just about enough room to fit a 10m dipole around the inner edge of the patio roof, although it'd have to bend around the corners. Would that have any shot at working? It would be fairly low. I'm also a little concerned about MPE, since it would be right under my neighbors balcony.

I could also set something up inside but that doesn't seem ideal either.

Any other options I should consider? It would be nice to get on lower bands too but I suspect that won't happen, at least at my apartment.

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