Great story! It’s clear that the old man knows his stuff and has some good advice for handling HAL. Confidence and clarity are key when dealing with these advanced systems. It’s a nice blend of humor and practical tips – can’t wait to see how the kid takes on the challenge! And yes, definitely time to grab a bite after all that important training.

No clue, all i know is that i never have to do more than that, and noone has managed to get it working on windows 🤷‍♂️

When i started learning programming, everything was always a pain to set up, needed to install weird IDEs from shady websites and they only worked half the time. Then a friend showed me linux where stuff just worked out of the box, just slap some code in a textfile and compile it, i never looked back (was working in c/c++ but from what i’ve seen it’s not much better for python)

Every now and then a new hire comes along with a windows pc, every time they decide they want to try to get everything working on windows, after a week they give up.

On linux it’s one pip install and you’re done

Sure that sounds like a lot, until you realize even a small firearm can deal 9 damage per second, suddenly 15 hp isn’t all that much

That’s the date, it’s an old photo

two sentence horror story

That’s how it usually goes, one person works and creates something, then some other person makes a shitton of money off of it

I recently found a thread that went like this:

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Thank you! I ended up going with your solution :)

Race conditions can make you a racist,
If you

1. Are behind the wheel of a racecar
2. You are on a racetrack

Then there’s no nice way to say it, you might be a racist, drive safe

400? Seconds or years?

Firefox has built-in cookie-deletion when you close the browser/tab, it’s under settings/privacy i believe

I heard a guy saying that linux was trash, he had tried it once but it didn’t have drivers for anything and what did exist was difficult to install
So I asked him when it was that he tried it

I think he said something like 1998…

“So this here is a rock”
“Uhh, in english please?”

They should’ve just thrown it out, just to be safe, letting it in without making sure is playing with fire, what if it was 1ml over the limit?!

Arbitrary and pointless rules are there for a reason!

I feel cheated, what was even the point of taking them if they weren’t going to kill me?!

“do not feed the flowers”

You shouldn’t encurage people to start fights! Remove your comment or i’ll fite ya, i swear on mi mum!

Internet solipsism; you realize you’re the only real person on the internet

Edit: solipsism probably isn’t the right word, i think i heard a word for this but can’t recall what it was

Shitting on windows is the most Linux thing you can do

Display manager I thought the d stood for Desktop, but i’m thinking of de, i see i’ve been mixing up terms, i’ve also been under the incorrect understanding that window managers and desktop environments were mutually exclusive, e.g. a desktop environment like xfce would conflict with a window manager like i3

Those scripts look cleaner than mine, perhaps i should give it another go, i’m currently on ubuntu, but many of the packets being 15 years out of date is starting to get annoying, i miss aur with its [xxx]-git packages