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HP CEO: Blocking third-party ink from printers fights viruses
  • The mad rush to sell the sizzle, not the steak.

    Wouldn't it be nice to have one company create a simple printer that just prints. It does not have a local webpage. It does not monitor your ink supplies. It does not phone home. It uses ink from bottles sold inexpensivly.

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    If the kids didn't mutiny, would Picard have been killed when the turbolift fell?
  • The way gravity plating works is not given as far as I know, Perhaps the gravity generators simply alter the number of gravitons in an area of plating. Once that value is set it remains until changed again. A sudden power spike can cause the generators to withdraw the extra gravitons, as a result sometimes certain kinds of emergency can "turn off" gravity in an area of the ship.

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    Programming As a Career Isn’t Right for Me
  • If they overlap, aren't you in danger of having your company try to take over your passion project?

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    Programming As a Career Isn’t Right for Me
  • I write programs for myself. I have learned enough C, Pascal, Fortran, Basic to write small things and even larger things like a visual file manager for MSDOS, or my own version of the venerable STAR TREK game. I even know of big O notation (But I don't know how to calculate it for a given algorithm)

    But I never wanted to be a programmer - having to work on other people's programs 8 hours a day. That would ruin programming as a hobby. When I am self-directed it is fun.

    I was a Data Center tech instead. Minding 3 football fields of other people's computers.

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    Oops! We Automated Bullshit. | Department of Computer Science and Technology
  • I use chatgpt to make up stuff, imagine things that don't exist for fun - like a 'pitch' for the next new Star Trek series, or to reword my much too succinct prose for a manual for a program I am writing ('Calcula' in gitlab) or ideas for a new kind of restaurant (The chef teaches you how to cook the meal you are about to eat) - but never have it code or ask it about facts, it makes them up just as easily as the stuff I just described.

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    I've seen it said that TNG was centered around Picard, Riker, and Data like TOS was centered around Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. But I've always thought of TNG as an ensemble cast. Thoughts?
  • Worf may be a badass, but there are many that are just badder than he is. But as the Jem Hadar guy said "I cannot defeat this man, I can only kill him".

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    Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.
  • I also had to (under KDE)

    • Edit the settings for each of the folders in Dolphin (The file manager)

    • Edit the location of the desktop folder in the settings found by right-clicking the desktop and going into "Configure Desktop and Wallpaper" Location.

    • Edit the show item by choosing Custom Location, and adding the XDG directory for the desktop. This setting may not stick.

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    Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.
  • Why aren't all of these just normal directories under either .local (for data files) or .config (for configuration)???

    Actually, I think the XDG directories should be under a single XDG directory either dotted or not (a better name would be OK with me) ~/xdg/Documents, ~/xdg/Music, ~/xdg/Pictures etc.

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    Over 65 years ago this month, researchers ran the first FORTRAN program
  • You don't really change the compiler itself. You can build up libraries of your own subroutines and link in the ones you need in any particular program, just like you might in C.

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    What are your hobby programming projects? I need some inspiration.
  • This is why I never became a programmer. I am retired now, but for the last 10 years, I have been a data center support agent. Programming is fun, I would hate to ruin that fun by having to work to someone else's rule.

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    What are your hobby programming projects? I need some inspiration.
  • I am interested in all things random or mathematical. I have written programs to simulate the decay of radioactive 'stuff', a program that simulates the CA Lottery by flipping a coin (someone said that your chances are about the same as flipping a coin 25 times in a row in a run of either heads or tails).

    On the mathematical side, I have written a program to run the 3n+1 (Colatz) series and record process features, like counting evens and odds, the number of steps, and the maximum value found in the series. Perhaps the average of the values in the series would be interesting to calculate...

    Combining mathematics with randomness - I have worked on the 100 prisoners idea, How many loops are created in this run, and how long is the longest one? If any loop contains more than 50 members then the prisoners lose and don't get to go home.

    I have ideas for a traditional basic interpreter only lines are labeled not numbered.

    I have a traditional Star Trek program that I have written many times improving slightly each time.

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    What's Your Favorite, Not at All Epic, Star Trek Quote
  • But that was just Q's ad hominem response to an even better exchange: Q: What must I do to convince you people (that he is mortal and without powers) Worf: die.

    Sorry I know you said "not epic" but most things Worf says are epic.

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    Hear me out: A scripting language that compiles to bash or sh (any suggestions?)
  • And when it is powerful enough you can make it self hosting.

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    US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction
  • Fission too. I personally have both mass (more than I want) and energy (Not as much as I would like).

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    Maybe later... how about never, you fucks?
  • Dark Pattern

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    "Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 2 - Subspace Rhapsody (Original Series Soundtrack) Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 2 - Subspace Rhapsody (Original Series Soundtrack) by Various Artists
  • Perhaps I just refuse to click thru things that look to me like I might be signing up for something. No worries.

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