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Writing C++ is easy. in c/programmer_humor

[–] xoggy 14 points 1 year ago

When the compiler is being more helpful than you realize.

Some people just can't pace themselves in c/programmer_humor

[–] xoggy 58 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Think about it though. When people say they want to "code AI" what they typically mean is they want to play with prompts and waste electricity on garbage models, not actually write any of the underlying models that power AI.

TIL that Grizzly bears in Yellowstone help manufacturers to test if their products are really bear-resistant. If a bear were able to get in a container within that 60 minutes, then the manufacture... in c/[email protected]

[–] xoggy 1 points 1 year ago

Somebody watched Tom Scott's YouTube channel.

How do you keep track of all apps you install and their configurations? in c/[email protected]

[–] xoggy 5 points 1 year ago

NixOS stores a snapshot of your OS and all the app configs in an OS config folder for you. Helpful for instant system recovery or deploying the setup to new hardware.

Please remember to reboot your plane every month or so in c/[email protected]

[–] xoggy 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you meant to post this one over at [email protected].

TIL that there is a flourishing business consisting of digging up mammoth tusks from the Siberian permafrost and selling it to China, as a substitute for prohibited elephant ivory. in c/[email protected]

[–] xoggy 11 points 1 year ago

Just in general, mammoth fossils hold a lot of information that could tell us about the history of the local environment of those areas or new insights into the creatures' lives as well. Also it's not like more of this finite resource is still being produced or anything.

TIL that chickens can and have killed in c/[email protected]

[–] xoggy 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair have you seen how massive the legs and claws are on Brahma chicken??

Any news on OldTechBlokes health? in c/[email protected]

[–] xoggy 2 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] does not support community posts. I guess we need to put a PR in for this.

What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux? in c/[email protected]

[–] xoggy 3 points 1 year ago

A friend loaned me a CD set of Mandrake which had an early version of KDE. I was floored away by something as simple as the level of customization you could do with the taskbar. And having this alien operating system running on an alien EXT3 partition format instead of FAT32 or NTFS that you didn't need to defragment. It seemed pretty fantastical.

I loved tweaking the desktop environment on Windows by replacing explorer.exe with LiteStep and Blackbox so likewise I did this on Linux. Over time I had fun discovering Gnome2, Fluxbox, XFCE, etc. you name it. Eventually I got a desktop I really liked and felt productive on and as Windows XP approached end of life I had no intention of using Vista so I transitioned to exclusively Linux at that point.

I did play with different distros and running servers at the time, hosted VMs back in the day you had to take whatever distro they offered. But for my desktop I basically went Mandrake, Arch (didn't know how to make everything work), Debian, Ubuntu, back to Arch.

TIL In the Where's Wally? series of books, Wally became progressively smaller as the series went on, with Wally being 0.99cm^2 in the first book, and 0.20 to 0.17cm^2 in the fourth book onwards. in c/[email protected]

[–] xoggy 1 points 1 year ago

TIL Wally is Waldo's original name.

TIL Bob Marley had 3 children born within 30 days of each other in c/[email protected]

[–] xoggy 1 points 1 year ago

It's more impressive when women do that.

why did you switch? in c/[email protected]

[–] xoggy 2 points 1 year ago

I switched because Windows XP reached end of life and I had no interest in Vista. I was also pretty familiar with Gnome 2 and XFCE, both of which provided a very similar desktop experience to XP but way more customizable.