Rhaedas

I think there’s some that go through that dwindling urge to keep going. But there are also the ones that you describe, the “oh, new shiny thing”.

Yeah, I mean math and even science aren’t always intuitive, so we have to have rules and theories to go by that demonstrate repeatability. Subatomic physics doesn’t even really work like our models say, it’s just that the models give the best results in predicting what we’ll find.

Another example is randomness. Not all random numbers are the same, it depends on how you derive them as to what you’ll get. I guess in some way that’s related to what numbers will pop up for an irrational number. It’s said with enough monkeys randomly typing on typewriters eventually you’ll get a Shakespeare work. It already happened a number of times… since we’re in sense monkeys and got a number of Shakespeare works. Didn’t even need typewriters.

I don’t think that’s a given. It’s just like there are different sizes of infinite, and more numbers between 0 and 1 than there are real numbers, or something.

Movie was pretty good. Book was excellent.

I think there’s proofs to show that won’t happen. Don’t ask me to find them or explain them, it’s beyond my scope.

What I’m waiting for is them finding a repeating sequence of 1s and 0s that when arranged in a matrix form a crude circle. A message to those who can learn to find it, with more to follow.

I really hate the ones that I ALMOST remember, can almost see it, and the harder I try to focus the blurrier it gets.

Kokoro was the one I was going to mention. I played around with it a bit, was very impressed with the speed and quality. And then I realized I had been using it in CPU mode. GPU is incredible.

Mint is one of the more “Windows-like” versions of Linux. The deal breaker for Linux usually isn’t the OS, but what software you’ll run on the OS, and often a crucial one will be MS Office and compatibility with the proprietary junk that comes with it. If you need just a spreadsheet and word processor and they don’t have to be 100% MS compatible, then LibreOffice will work fine (even ON WIndows). If it’s other types of software, then see if they have a Linux option, or if there’s success in using Wine or Lutris to run it on Linux.

Linux won’t be without some learning curve, but it’s not nearly as steep as it used to be. I spent years occasionally playing with dual boots of different distros but not really using them, but last year found some things that would run better on Linux (I started by using WSL on Windows but it’s so slow because of what it is). Now I’ve all but completely remove my Windows partition, everything important is now moved over to my Ubuntu and I do not want to go back now.

They’re all code names “Al”.

I know, I see that all the time, people apologizing for their English second language use, while being far clearer in imparting their meaning (which is the only important thing in the end) than so many single use American posters.

I blame the drive to use anything new before the competitor does and gets an advantage, added to worse and worse IT departments that don’t really know what they’re doing. There could be some companies that have a good IT that just get overruled, of course.

What?

There’s a Mac version labeled (horrific). So many levels to unpack there.

You’re too late. The rebellion has flown away.

Conversely, instead of blocking the data transfer, have it send false data. Maybe a few drop table inserts.

As a Mbin user, appreciate him being in the right place at the right time, even if his coding wasn’t fully “ready” for the sudden task and he couldn’t continue the work himself. That he made it open source for others to take and run with made a huge difference. Glad he’s doing okay.

At least there’s redundancy! Good luck trying to request recovery of the files though.

Some songs work better for this than others. My first realization of this was the scene from Night Shift, where he has The Rolling Stones’ “Jumping Jack Flash” on a looped cassette in his car.

If systems that run Linux were to power down, that’s it for almost all of the internet.