Fitz
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Just now, dsavitsk said:
Kids today. You have no idea what it was like using Python 1.5 in the late 90s when even perl programmers looked down on you.
You say that like I didn't originally cut my teeth on python then. Getting used to 3.x is a world of difference from what I once knew.
I actually got permission from a professor to use his equations in a project I was working on around then, for a game I was making in Python.
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5 minutes ago, dsavitsk said:
This has been the claim of Linux proponents for going on 20 years. Someday it will be true.
One Day (TM)
Maybe the same day us Python devs get some respect.
One can hope.
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I think you overestimate the difficulty of using Linux. I myself used to use it as my primary OS for a while until I switched back to Windows solely for gaming reasons. A few quirks, but it kinda Just Works. I even have a Linux VM I use for things like recovering old disks, which Windows absolutely sucks at. Plugged an old HDD into Windows... it sees a blank drive and offers no other option than to format it, link it to the VM and Linux immediately recognizes its original format and recovers it with all data in tact.
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Linux is not a great option for casual use, I'm 100% agreed on that. It's the OS equivalent of a straight razor, very powerful, but easy to hurt yourself if you don't know what you're doing.
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This may come as a surprise, but have you considered a desktop PC? Very servicable if it has problems, quite affordable, and you're not locked into anything. Even with hardware prices the way they are, I'm pretty sure you could put together a PC that will do everything you need for less than the cost of a laptop.
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You had me at Sting.
Edit: Sting was literally one of my first crushes on a man.
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1 hour ago, mikeymad said:
Martin and Short, what is not to like?
Well I imagine it doesn't have El Guapo, so that's a negative.
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4 hours ago, Knuckledragger said:
Since I pay for the Bozos Space Fund, I have access to AMZN Prime Video and sometimes avail myself of it. I watched a documentary on the late Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones a few nights ago. Prime Video's suggestion algorithm is hilarious, especially compared to the "we track your every move" nature of YouTube and Google. It suggested season 4 of The Grand Tour, which is the, ahem, spiritual successor to Top Gear. In spite of the fact that I find Jeremy Clarkson to be one of the most loathsome people in the history of humans (or things that are loathsome) I watched the first episode. It's quite well produced as one would expect. Apparently Prime has the first for seasons.
Aside from the first season being a bit hit or miss, The Grand Tour is a pretty great continuation of the sort of thing people who watched them on Top Gear enjoyed. Clarkson may not be the best person around (to put it mildly), but the three of them have such a perfect chemistry together.
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I don't blame her, I wouldn't wanna know about your raspberry shaving habits either if I didn't have to.
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Yeah, it's a pain, but at least this time the fraudsters picked a time when I don't really need to use it in the few days until the new one arrives. Much more convenient than when they did it right before I was going out of town.
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Checked my online banking this morning to find a couple fraudulent charges on my debit card. 😒
Called my bank as soon as customer service hours started, and got a dispute filed and new card issued with a five minute phone call. So at least that part was painless.
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I'd definitely be a lot more comfortable using a table saw with something like a SawStop on it, because table saws scare the bejeezus outta me.
15 hours ago, Voltron said:Nothing bigger than a 10" blade
You gotta remember, 10" is small to someone like him.
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What's with those wimpy little hammer taps?
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2 minutes ago, dsavitsk said:
Turtle ponds?
Yes, they're in very high demand these days.
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48 minutes ago, swt61 said:
But again, a couple of hundred dollars vs. a digit or more? It's a no brainer.
Yeah but that's why you come with spare digits.
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Yeah, that'll make way better coffee than that cheap piece of junk Steve posted.
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Just now, starcat said:
Oh man, really want to stop that. You think insulting people directly is the way to go?
When the person is an asshat, certainly.
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Somehow I don't think calling for admin intervention is going to go the way you want it to. 🤔
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1 minute ago, starcat said:
I was looking for an explanation why the skies are dark black without a single star.
No, no you aren't. You are already prepared to reject actual explanations and continue arguing in bad faith. There's no reason to engage with you further.
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Another situation where having a facepalm option for post reactions would be appropriate.
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3 minutes ago, starcat said:
And you believe in Santa Clause? Moon Landing? Read up, even the pics were faked.
Escaping the Van Allen radiation belt around earth? LoLBless your heart.
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Get over yourself.
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2 minutes ago, swt61 said:
Quick, pull my finger!
Not falling for that one again.
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Did he drop it?
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Battletech actually. I wanted a way to more easily play it with people online since I didn't really know many people locally who played it. I did all the backend work implementing the board state, rules, movement and line of sight calculations, etc, then kinda abandoned it when I got to having to implement visuals and UI. Even without any graphics the performance was abysmal, as you'd expect trying to do anything big with Python on the hardware of those days, so it's probably for the best I never finished it.