I've got a Surface Pro 7 with 8Gbyte RAM and 128 GB SSD with Windows 11
beta. You can browse the web, fill out forms. listen to music. You
can't fit *365 on it. Even if a modern Windows version fit, it would be
very constrained.
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> On Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 09:08:07 AM MST, trent shipley via
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If AI can take over junior level knowledge jobs now, it stands to reason AI
will mature fast enough to keep pace with the rate at which junior level
practitioners would have gained experience to do mid-level and senior jobs.
It's an eventuality that the robots make people obsolete. The only
quest
Measles results in death or other permanent disability frequently enough
that our ancestors greatly feared it and it's why there's a vaccine for it.
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 3:33 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> Vikriti D'Vita via PLUG-discuss said on Tue,
g.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
> > There are places that are not okay with people masking?
> >
> > On 11/21/23 13:02, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> >> OK. So attendees are required to wear pants or skirts, shirts, shoes,
> and
> >> masks.
with people masking?
>
> On 11/21/23 13:02, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > OK. So attendees are required to wear pants or skirts, shirts, shoes,
> > and masks.
> >
> > Will N95 or KN95 masks be required and will acceptable masks provided or
> > will f
OK. So attendees are required to wear pants or skirts, shirts, shoes, and
masks.
Will N95 or KN95 masks be required and will acceptable masks provided or
will folks need to bring their own?
Also, has it been confirmed that Boulders will be OK with people masking?
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 8:36
:So you're saying the Indians and Argientinans obviously deserved the job
more than you since they would do the same work for less money? Also, why
would an American be better at the job than someone from anywhere else? Or
are you saying you are better than most of your peers in general, you're
p
Unlike a lot of FOSSers, I'm not a Microsoft hater (Oracle, maybe). Hey,
sometimes the business equation works out to "you can't afford to use free
software". But the economic analysis for software is the first unit ye
sell costs a zillion dollars because of how much software development
costs.
method with the same name as the attribite, make the attribute
> private, and add the `@property` decorator to the getter. No change in
> your class's interface.
>
> Otherwise looks great :)
>
> On 6/20/23 10:14, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > I just did a thin
I just did a thing.
And I could really use some feedback. If it is lite the feedback I'd get
from my last coding job it will go something like: your code works, but I
don't understand it, there isn't enough documentation, and what
documentation there is, doesn't help.
https://github.com/trent-sh
I was talking last week to my manager's manager about how I was staying
busy on the bench. I told him I was working on a dice roller in Python,
which was the first program I'm writing for myself, and that I was having a
lot of fun and learning new stuff. I said the other thing I was doing was
wor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_segmentation
>From a producer perspective, segmentation is GOOD.
>From a producer perspective producing the Nth copy of a good almost for
free is fantastic.
But if consumers can ALSO copy and distribute your product at very, very
low cost, that is Very Bad.
O
AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
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>> I think the scripters are vulnerable, however the compSci folks will be
>> the ones creating apps that create apps.
>>
>>
>> On 2023-06-06 09:40, trent shipley via PLUG-di
educe
> complexity of typing it, that's where things lose out. Perhaps AI can help
> with this, reduce the load on our poor hooman brains to remember the
> various options.
>
> Where it will definitely have an effect is repeated tasks (making another
> web frontend router) and
25 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> I don't get it...
>
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 5:03 AM trent shipley via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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>> *Pointy haired manager to programmer:* We are t
*Pointy haired manager to programmer:* We are thinking of replacing
programming with AI.
*Programmer:* Don't you mean you plan to replace programmers with AI.
*PHM:* No, replace programming itself.
*P:* How? Why?
*PHM: * Well, the Big, Poorly Understood AI produces really good results
witho
I'm on the bench at work, so I spend my days following along with examples
in Python books. Whenever there is a choice to use x**0.5 or math.sqrt(x)
the books opt for the square root option instead of the equivalent
representation as a fractional power. Is the implementation of math.sqrt()
more
Why is Lua better than Julia or Scala (or other best language contenders
like Haskell or Smalltalk?)
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023, 22:51 Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
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> trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 22 Apr 2023 16:31:13 -0700
>
>
>
Thanks Steve.
This is a table-top role-playing play aid, not a video game so C/C++/Rust
would be overkill, but I will look into Lua.
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023, 22:51 Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 22 Apr 2
(((
My real questions are:
* Is this too much to bite off as a first project?
* What architecture advice do you have?
* What political advice for dealing with the author and publisher do you
have?
* What other advice do you have?
* What other comments do you have?
)))
I use a role-playing system
memory added to the Dell tonight
Trent
Also Keith, are you going to do the presentation some time?
On 2023-01-25 07:53, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I'm on the bench with my employer asd studying test driven development
> using Harry Precival's Test-Driven Develo
I am working on Precival's 2017 Test Driven Development with Python (and
Django) 2nd edition. I am stuck on chapter 9 which covers deployment to a
shared hosted or dedicated hosted remote development instance.
If I run on the local machine with ~/blah/blah/venv/bin/python3 manage.py
test functi
t; -Thomas Scott
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 8:50 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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>> I have not heard of and unusual blacklisting of Bluehost.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2023-01-25 09:21, trent shipley v
I work for a contracting company that specializes in finding positions for
neurodiverse individuals, particularly those on the autism spectrum. (I'm
autistic, bipolar, and attention deficit disordered).
Occasionally real IT jobs come up. Manual testing jobs are pretty common,
and can lead to mor
ore anxious and suspicious -- even paranoid than the population at
large. I suspect they start a little bit more anxious and suspicious [and
it turns them on], then thinking about and coping with all the stuff bad
actors can do to you all day long makes it ever so much more so.)
> I recently confi
I'm on the bench with my employer asd studying test driven development
using Harry Precival's Test-Driven Development with Python. Percival uses
a simple web site on Django as the practice or example project. In chapter
9 the baby website gets put on a real hosted web server. It needs to be an
o
Python UTF8 Treeview Project Feedback Request
I want to move beyond classroom assignments and Exercism.org toy exercises
and start work on my own project. A major motivation is to have something
to show if I make it to an interview for a software curation and writing
job.
This kind of view of a
It looks like SQLite was meant to be a modest application's dedicated SQL
enabled data store. It was never meant to be concurrent, multiuser or
intensely transactional. A database professional would say that's a
stupidly lazy programmer trick.
On a similar note I've been reading software enginee
Does anyone have any news about the Programming and Analytics 4 year
program they are going to start in Fall 2023 at Mesa CC? Will it be a CS
or CIS program, or neither? I got a call and was told it's got preliminary
accreditation, but the MCCCD board doesn't even know if the fees will be
differe
27;t put you on a Unix machine working with C
starting in CS105. We had no idea how awful things were compared to what
would come.
Trent
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 11:51 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 22 D
PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > I was interested in BASH for her because I want her to get into cyber
> > security. Would a juvensalia book be good for a 10 year old?
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 9:26 AM trent shipley via PLUG-discuss
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
Python is a great first language, and there is no shortage of beginning
Python books aimed at young beginners. I've never read a juvenalia
programming book, except maybe pre-Visual Basic BASIC with the line numbers
and goto-s for me, but at 14 she may be a bit old for them and you might be
OK with
cott via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>:
>
> Is the utility `tree` an option? You can also use a subprocess call to
> call it from within Python.
>
> Best Regards,
> -Thomas Scott
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 11:53 AM trent shipley via PLUG-dis
Does anyone know how to get an ASCII/Unicode pretty-print of a directory
tree, preferably using a Python library or utility.I wanted one to ask
a list for help, but my Google-foo was not up to the task. A working
Google search string would be even better than "here follow the link to the
utili
NICE! Sometimes good things happen to deserving people and a good deed
goes unpunished.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 11:00 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:48:59 +
> (UTC)
>
>
> >I’ve met a few fo
Both inflation and deflation are like positive feedback loops or
resonance. A central bank can beat inflation into the ground with interest
rates (even one like this, which is caused by demand pull, supply
shortages, and rising profits) at the cost of a nasty recession (pretty
much what the Fed di
ou should not hire them at all; they cannot be
>> trusted. Focus on a clear, honest, open, adult conversation and mutual
>> learning instead. Ask questions about what the candidate can do, wants to
>> do, interests, and expectations. Learn, both directions, if and how the
&
(Lead buried in last two or three paragraphs.)
Hi,
I've been in software writing positions on-and-off since about 1999. I
spent a couple years teaching myself Oracle SQL and PERL in 1999 and 2000
for a nice application in the phone industry, then I had a long bout of
unemployment, with some fals
om/install/#install-clients
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 2:49 PM trent shipley via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> I enjoy programming a lot and dislike sysadmin (one reason I don't use a
>> Linux desktop more. It'
ve abandoned all other cloud platforms for
>> it. Email, Calendar, files, and password management, and I have access
>> everywhere, including my phone and tablet.
>>
>> There are free services out there that provide limited storage to a
>> Nextcloud storage.
>>
&g
In this order I use Windows, Apple Mac, and Linux Mint.
Sometimes I'm working in LibreOffice, or Java, or Python, etc. and I get
stuck rotating between all three OSes. I mostly store my stuff or Google
Drive, but some on OneDrive. I can access both fine on Windows. Accessing
OneDrive from my iM
You can get a whole shell main buffer in standard Linux Emacs. I have no
idea what adaptive technology tools will do with it. Back when I used BASH
via the Emacs full edit screen shell buffer, it was more convenient than a
terminal app in a lot of ways. It also had some nasty gotchas or glitches
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