I’m sure the last one is useful to the IT people from my last company. There’s no way anyone is using the computers I left with arch on it without installing windows.

Tidal energy is being used in many countries. You don’t have to block the canals. You can build structures in coastlines, or just put underground generators that run automatically without any dams because the water moves without the dams as well

Assume all that is true, AI can really do well in these fields, but there are some other fields it can’t do well in.

Now who is going to work on those fields? Who is going to take the risk of studying for it, practicing for years, being an expert in the field that takes maybe a decade, and the AI can suddenly solve your field too, and you don’t get anything.

You aren’t faster at checking it out per item. The supermarkets are just keeping it understaffed all the time so the human checkout has a long wait while self checkout does not, so it’s faster to not wait. I try to not use self checkout, but if I have a few items it just makes me feel guilty about making other people wait behind me.

As they keep having understaffed situations, sometimes there’s no other option except self checkout. Which honestly should be illegal.

Auto complete is a separate command (or a bash function) that runs when you press tab. It’s a feature of the terminal (e.g. bash). Programs can provide theur auto complete while distributing their packages, or provide a flag to generate auto complete.

So I would think you can just call that function call auto complete for whatever command is after sudo. But maybe it gets complicated. I’ve only written it for my own programs.

Why not if it’s for sudo, can’t sudo just redirect the auto complete to ask based on the command after sudo?

This is what I was thinking. I’m not worried about the AI that they’re running. I’m worried about the mindset that might be doing it under some belief they have, or tendencies to think of certain things

What if I write a program that checks argv[0] to decide which part of the code to run, and makes a bunch of symlinks

I think using tiling based windows is one of the things that makes it easier for single monitor. I use i3 and it’s way quicker to refer to something on another workspace compared to if I were to have them in separate monitors or stacked views. When using extra monitors i just have it open browser most of the time.

You don’t need multiple screens to code. You can split inside your editor if you need to look at two things, otherwise you just jump between things. Faster thank having to use multiple things

I love programming because it feels like magic.

Couldn’t choose it as a major because everyone wanted it while I was going to college. It was too competitive.

I still learned it, have fun making things. Helping others by making tools. Thought I could get a job in programming because “degree doesn’t matter”.

Now the degree matters a lot because they have plenty with the degree, I think it didn’t matter in the beginning because there weren’t enough people. Now with AI, the people with degree aren’t finding jobs. So no way anyone hiring me.

But because I love programming I still use it on my job. Making tools for clients and internal productivity. Basically working like a software engineer without a software engineer salary because I love it.

So profit??? To the company?

Arch now has archinstall. So the setup is pretty fast. And if you sync your dotfiles, and have a list of packages to install, you can setup in an hour or so

From someone who installed manjaro because I thought it’d be easier arch, but did not last more than a month

I live like this, it has been 10 years, no problem

I’ve never see it, who sets it? I only have two processes that are like it and blth wait for 1:30

Solar and batteries (chemical). If we could harness lightening then that’s come without mechanical energy as well. There’s biological energy as well, we don’t have a way to extract it directly as electricity but it exists

Mechanical and heat is just the most common way to get electricity for us at the moment.

That’s actually what I think of as how the open source works. It’s not that millions of people are working for you to have things all the time. It’s just that instead of making something and letting it be lost in some hard drive they share it. If something has enough interest, use value, and passion from the creator then the work will continue.

Some programs with heavy industry use, or a passionate user base will be successful, but even the niche small programs are there so if someone wants to continue the work they can.

Vs the same little programs from companies that are not open source will be just lost, you can’t get the source and continue even if you want to. Even they will discard the source, or the guy that worked on it will be gone and noone knows anything.

So appreciate open source, even if it doesn’t work for all the cases, it is better because it can continue, the effort isn’t lost. Open source licenses don’t promise future maintenance, they are just available as they are

This is what I really want

Yeah, I really like it. But I also started with it because my university at that time only taught open source apps, and later on other universities did Arc but I just did the same thing in QGIS. But when you’re starting it might be a little of an adjustment.

They also just released v4.0 with full migration to qt6, I haven’t tested it out that well yet.

Btw I am currently working on a programming language that uses custom syntax to do fun analysis related to networks (directed graphs). And I have a GIS support for reading/writing network and attributes. I made it for rivers first, but I’m expanding to all directed graph. I’ve a mix of Computer and Geosciences background so I had fun doing something in the middle that most people don’t.

Edit: I am looking for people to try it out, but I have problem finding people that want to code in a new language, and for network related tasks.

ArcGIS is the proprietary industry standard, but QGIS is catching up. I personally don’t like Arc and have only used it when I was in industry. Even in academia colleges pay for ArcGIS but I just use QGIS.

You can also customize QGIS easily and there’re a lot of community plugins. And works well with other open source tools or CLI tools.

Main thing that makes Arc popular in industry is the liability. They can claim they used the best available industry standard software, so the errors are not their fault, and deflect it to the software company. While with open-source alternatives they might be held liable. It’s not a problem if the open source is the standard. But that only happens when they were there first, hard to do it otherwise.

I’m not saying there aren’t exceptions. linux users come from various backgrounds, if someone told me they use Linux I don’t assume they’re from CS. I’m not either. But given they’re not from CS, the chances they’ve even heard of it is very low.

It’s just a sad but real fact that when you go out into the real world outside of your online communities with similar interests, people don’t know Linux or open source.