That does sound nice.

In the mean time, I usually just set up a “real” home directory in /home/$USER/$USER/ which is what gets backed up, and leave the original one for cruft.

Cute — though the visual gag fits a little better with infinite recursion that infinite loop.

Software union? (Where?)

*accidentally uninstalls python base package trying to fix dependency conflicts in apt

I just installed the Complementary shader pack (and Iris, via CurseForge, a bit of a process), and I’m really liking the feel they picked for the End. Aurora-like background, stars, varying light of indeterminate origin. It feels magical and space-like.

I agree the End could use some love though. Beyond finding some Elytra and making an Enderman XP farm, not a lot of reason to hang out there.

Thanks, it was a pretty fun project!

We may try to build an xp farm from the sculk catalysts we got, though don’t want to end up with a warden in our home base.

Hah. Yes, I assume training in beliefs that sponsored products are great is in AI’s future.

That’s a fun one to unpack with the advent of sentience — fits right in with Murderbot’s “the xyz training modules they gave us are crap” though.

“Make new mistakes” is a worthwhile goal in my book.

Yes — I think part of the lesson is to document the rationale and the compromises as much or more than the intended functionality.

This is Pacu Jalur?

It’s just a magic constant embedded in the standard conversational header, referencing an obsolete firmware version, but most users never update the client package so you have to ack it or you get undefined behavior.

Laughable for chess, but essentially how Steve Mould played tic tac toe using synthesized DNA.

Cool! Went back and watched Dr. Becky’s explanation of the Vera Rubin from last year. It’s doing a full survey of the southern sky every 3 nights to detect changing things.

Me (interviewing recently): Could I see an example design doc or some code before we discuss your offer? Hiring manager: We don’t do designs, just launch and iterate. And here’s some code, it’s all fully self documenting. Me: Nope nope nope.

Good call, time to block & move on.

I’m just getting:

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So true. I recently learned there’s a Python package for natural sorting, similar in other languages.

Hah, yeah I got a Debian floppy and then tried to install packages over DSL. Somehow it didn’t immediately kill my interest in Linux, eventually ran OpenBSD as my server for a while.

If you haven’t played with Pulumi (for configuring cloud services) and Ansible (for local services, shell commands, apt installs etc) you may enjoy them as a way to capture / re-apply configuration.

I do do interviews too. It’s a lot of time and work. A well designed interview can and should be a realistic, rewarding problem solving session where you get to try out collaboration with potential colleagues.