I remember a while ago - when, like in your anecdote, I mostly coded in bash - I had a dream that I found out people were invoking my scripts in a manner that essentially overrode settings that might (or, in my case, might not) have been set at the beginning of the script.
This never (AFAIK) happened in waking hours, but I was very offended in the dream.
A fact that I like to share from my personal history: I took four years to graduate from a two year college because I was taking every computer class they offered … Except that I skipped “intro to Unix” because when was I ever going to use that?
My entire career has been largely based on knowing how to use Linux.
Wow, haven’t seen your thorns in a while.
I liked vimwiki for this, except that it set expandtab and I could never find where.
Pretty much the one and only good thing about work forcing us to switch from Linux laptops to Macbooks.
DNS ad blocking doesn’t work on YouTube.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kwfA1UB2Je0
edit: Yes, I realize the irony of linking YouTube here.
My previous house apparently only existed because the neighbor of the building in the lot before it objected to the sexuality of the owners of said building and threw a molotov cocktail at it.
There was only one casualty of that event. Sadly, it was a cat.
I don’t know how to respond to that.
Maybe you’re my old co-worker.
Regardless, I appreciate the detail! Thank you for elaborating.
I don’t have any experience with “CFD results” but the two sound similar to me. The ellipsis might have made it seem sarcastic, but that wasn’t my intent.
That’s … Basically what they said.
I once worked tech support for people who ran physics simulations. They said that sometimes they had to rerun the simulations if they didn’t come back accurately. I asked how they could tell if they were accurate.
They said it was based on whether it felt right. I still hate that response, but I guess I can’t come up with a better idea, other than doing whatever they’re testing in real life.
Fair enough. Thank you.
I’m not trying to be dismissive or critical of those who use a NAS solution. I’ve never used one myself, so maybe it really is amazing; but from your response it sounds just like an NFS (or perhaps samba) server with a web interface? I did try TrueNAS once and it basically seemed like that, but also with convoluted permissions.
Again, not trying to be dismissive or anything. Just trying to understand.
I’m unclear on the benefit either has one just an NFS server.
Couldn’t say - I’ve never had the chance to use it. In fact, I’m not sure I ever had the SysRq key on a keyboard I’ve used.
I have had a Pause/Break key and used to think they were the same thing, but now I’m not so sure.
You just reminded me … Before I really got into IT in my career I was at a job that still had a messenger for the internal staff. I set my status message in it to “Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring.”
I got chastised and made to change it, because the message might offend … Skinny elephants, I guess? I never got clarification on that.
(The manager had no clue what it meant.)
George Carlin very vocally agrees… But things get a bit problematic after that.
I have one connected to the internet due to WAF, but I never signed into an LG account on it. As a result, the “home” page just shows something about signing in “for the full experience” rather than any ads.
The biggest issue I have with it is that I have Linux on all my personal systems and OSX on my work laptop and sometimes switch rapidly between them.
My fingers don’t seem to adapt as quickly, though, and I often press the wrong combination between them.