Wow, so I thought having an explicit 4chan block was kinda silly enough, but finding out it works by running OCR on every uploaded image and looking for the words “Anonymous” and “No” is absurdly silly.

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Edit: damn the pilcrow renders shit on my phone

All my personal servers/sbcs run Debian

I do enough DevOps at work, I don’t need my free time to be a job too

Data track/session is the term

If it was done in the way where the data track didn’t show up for an audio player, it was probably an Enhanced CD/CD plus. If anyone is backing up old CDs it’s worth checking for this kind of stuff and saving it too. Given most people only ever rip the audio, loads of that stuff is going to end up as lost media before long

Okay that took me by surprise

I’ll be sharing this

kill, and I swear to god if you’re still there when I ps, I’m getting out the -9

Oh, I guess I’m a stoneager with a penchant for functional elitism then.

Though I will admit OOP is valid for involved data modelling, everything else should be functional though.

I’ve also trained myself out of most short variable names for maintainability reasons

I wish I still had time for advent of code…

Oh that’s cool to hear, I was under the impression in research that whilst a lot of the processing actually happens in FORTRAN-written code, it was nearly always reusing already-written functions and primitives in a higher level language (such as python, via the aforementioned SciPy). And then those libraries being maintained by a handful of wizards on the internet somewhere.

Can you elaborate on the kind of research where people are still actively writing directly in FORTRAN? Did people typically arrive with the skills already or was there training for learning how to write it well?

Isn’t it more COBOL than FORTRAN in terms of getting paid?

I thought FORTRAN was pretty much exclusively used via SciPy in research & academia these days.

COBOL is still powering the world economy on mainframes

I mean, about time

My (admittedly 6E, not 7) router only gets close to the ~900mbps I get on my line, if I’m stood in the same (not particularly large) room without anything between it and me

As soon as there’s anything obstructing line-of-sight, it quickly halves and quarters the rate down to WiFi 5 speeds

I mean, if you’re an arch user you probably should get it, given it’s kinda the same train if thought that brings most arch users to choose that.

The point is being a barebones system you can do what you want on top of, it tries to avoid making any choice for you.

I’ve kinda often thought of it as the step between LFS and Gentoo/Arch for users who want the most control over their system.

… That’s awful, does it work?

Edit: I guess it would need a semicolon or another pipe in the alias

Cat into grep lets you insert something between the file read and grep if you need to without having to reorder anything

Oh did they not have the Dorling Kindersley branding over there?

I say this as someone with an apple laptop:

You don’t buy Apple unless you want to commit to paying over double for accessories.

If you buy an Apple product you’re opting in to being fleeced by them for any related purchases.

It’s a premium brand at the end of the day, there are always more economical options

Also these things are often cascading failures to some extent in that it takes a short while before the bad config or release has been fully propagated.

Now that’s good trolleyposting

#include <delusion>

Pretty reasonable take IMO

I can see how it can be a useful tool to get people into dev

You need to back that up with real learning though

If you can’t/don’t review and completely understand every line of code you submit to a project yourself, you should not be surprised if the project owner tells you to take a long walk towards the Mariana trench