The OFFICIAL programming thread
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WIFI is pretty good these days. Or it’s seemed to work out of the box for the hardware I’ve had in the last decade anyway. The only thing I’ve struggled with is the open source Nvidia drivers and I’ve only had to use them in some “pure” open source distributions. It’s an unnecessary headache (to me anyway) since Nvidia provide good Linux support and I don’t give a crap myself that their drivers aren’t open source. Most mainstream / practical Linux distros give you the option of using Nvidia’s drivers on install.
It got me thinking though and I asked Bard the following question:
Why doesn’t Linux provide a way to wrap Windows hardware drivers with some sort of virtualization technique so that Linux could have full compatibility with Windows drivers?
Bard gave a whole bunch of reasons that sounded plausible to me (mostly around complexity, philosophy and performance) but it said my idea was “intriguing” so I’m glad I gave Bard some intellectual stimulation anyway.
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I have two identical work laptops (X1C v9) and on one of them I have to disable 802.11n for the driver not to crash every 10 minutes…
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@tigger said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
I have two identical work laptops (X1C v9)
You have four arms?
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@tigger said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
I have two identical work laptops (X1C v9)
You have four arms?
The other one is super secrid sandbox comp.
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Talking about laptops, I have a new one. And I guess it was about the time I got one. The old MBP is a late 2017 model and I don’t have much confidence it will work fine for long, but I don’t think I would have bough a new one just yet if the battery was in decent condition and M3 chips weren’t available. Now I’ve got to decide what I do with the old laptop, which still works pretty well, except for the battery, and it’s fast enough for many tasks and I would hate to just recycle it. The battery change would cost something like 200€ and I think it would be worth that if the comp would work for another year or two.
♙♙♙ Michael Waltz added you to the group.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@tigger said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
I have two identical work laptops (X1C v9)
You have four arms?
Not surprising. Everyone is supposed to have at least three arms in Switzerland.
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@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Talking about laptops, I have a new one. And I guess it was about the time I got one. The old MBP is a late 2017 model and I don’t have much confidence it will work fine for long, but I don’t think I would have bough a new one just yet if the battery was in decent condition and M3 chips weren’t available. Now I’ve got to decide what I do with the old laptop, which still works pretty well, except for the battery, and it’s fast enough for many tasks and I would hate to just recycle it. The battery change would cost something like 200€ and I think it would be worth that if the comp would work for another year or two.
Maybe just display the old one next to the new one to virtue signal to your liberal friends?
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Talking about laptops, I have a new one. And I guess it was about the time I got one. The old MBP is a late 2017 model and I don’t have much confidence it will work fine for long, but I don’t think I would have bough a new one just yet if the battery was in decent condition and M3 chips weren’t available. Now I’ve got to decide what I do with the old laptop, which still works pretty well, except for the battery, and it’s fast enough for many tasks and I would hate to just recycle it. The battery change would cost something like 200€ and I think it would be worth that if the comp would work for another year or two.
Maybe just display the old one next to the new one to virtue signal to your liberal friends?
You sound a bit jealous and I don’t know if it’s because you don’t have liberal friends or a new MBP.
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Why would I want an overpriced commie computer?
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Old blog I read years ago and just stumbled across again:
We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.
By Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton “You will never be able to understand any of what I’ve created. I am Albert F*ing Einstein and you are all monkeys scrabbling in the dirt.” And so our resident genius, our Dr. Jekyll, explosively completed his transform...
It’s a good read but I’m mostly linking for this line:
“You will never be able to understand any of what I’ve created. I am Albert F***ing Einstein and you are all monkeys scrabbling in the dirt.”
Fucking lol. I’d have given anything to have been in that meeting room when he dropped that.
TLDR; they fired him and a follow up blog said they fired his manager too for allowing the situation to even develop.
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@Hog I am saving that one. I would actually love to have a Rick around TBH because I am surrounded by dumbasses that can’t work independently or collaborate.
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I’d like to be Rick.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Why would I want an overpriced commie computer?
What do you mean by overpriced?
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@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Why would I want an overpriced commie computer?
What do you mean by overpriced?
More expensive than it’s worth. At least you understood the “commie computer” part.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Why would I want an overpriced commie computer?
What do you mean by overpriced?
More expensive than it’s worth. At least you understood the “commie computer” part.
It isn’t really.
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@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Why would I want an overpriced commie computer?
What do you mean by overpriced?
More expensive than it’s worth. At least you understood the “commie computer” part.
It isn’t really.
It is. Stalin owned 5 of them! That’s part of the reason why the USSR was so poor.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Why would I want an overpriced commie computer?
What do you mean by overpriced?
More expensive than it’s worth. At least you understood the “commie computer” part.
It isn’t really.
It is. Stalin owned 5 of them!
I meant the expensive part. The commie shit is true!
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Old blog I read years ago and just stumbled across again:
By Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton “You will never be able to understand any of what I’ve created. I am Albert F*ing Einstein and you are all monkeys scrabbling in the dirt.” And so our resident genius, our Dr. Jekyll, explosively completed his transform...
It’s a good read but I’m mostly linking for this line:
“You will never be able to understand any of what I’ve created. I am Albert F***ing Einstein and you are all monkeys scrabbling in the dirt.”
Fucking lol. I’d have given anything to have been in that meeting room when he dropped that.
TLDR; they fired him and a follow up blog said they fired his manager too for allowing the situation to even develop.
I am in guru situations. One guru strategy is he held onto key techs and parceled out bits, but did keep things ruthlessly simple and easy to maintain.
The other guru I fight for simplifying and above all both customer knowledge and descriptive naming standards. I can fix or extend 95% anything he has done if I just know what it is when the customer refers to it.
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