Latest on the list of overly needy companies is South Western Railway, who’ve taken to asking me to do a *15 minute* survey every time I look in the direction of a train.
@dave I’d love to get into one of these shells but I spend 80% of my time on random devices, inside Docker containers, or both.
@tdp_org I read https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08DMKYTNM before starting a job in Python. Don’t be put off by the title, it’s more Python for people who can already program and just need an introduction to the wider ecosystem rather than a hello world tutorial.
@SecurityWriter I suspect similar to email this is going to be the downside of the whole “anyone can run an instance” thing.
@anon_opin tell me you’ve never used any other solution to the same problem without telling me.
@hugh everyone run in I’ve had with estate agents suggest they’re at best barely competent. “I thought it would be easier to call you” - I literally said in my last reply to your last call “I’m in meetings all day, please email me and I’ll get to it asap”.
@hugh I’m also not convinced they materially help, we *did* see footage from our cameras used to prosecute criminals, but compared to how many were in the field it was minuscule.
@hugh yes, absolutely this. I worked on security cameras for a while and became increasingly disaffected as I saw that mostly what they did was make people worry. Previously that person walking past commiting the crime of Being a Teenager In Public just walked by, now everyone can lose their minds about how they’re probably going to mug someone.
@an0key except for Star Trek. They can continue resurrecting that as much as they like because they’ve got form on creating new stories.
@an0key Christ, X-Files as well. Someone’s doing Buffy, with (some of) the original cast.
Just let these things die. Make something new.
@anon_opin be easier to give it to the one person on the plane who can’t bear the fact other people exist.
@SecurityWriter it sometimes saddens me that everyone having a portable computer with constant internet connection in their pocket has more or less killed specialised devices like this.
@gsuberland I think at this point a GUI editor with vi mode for text editing is the sweet spot. For me that’s VSCode. Modal editing is so much less fiddly for me then anything else but vim itself is a bit of a nightmare to make do some of the things a modern editor can do now.
@andrew I’ve been watching your van videos and finding them really interesting. I have no intention of building a campervan but it scratches my itch to know how everything ever is done.
Also, it’s slightly odd seeing you without a radio and a look of low level panic on your face.
I regret taking the advice of the great poets Disturbed and getting down with the sickness. It’s nowhere near as cool as they make it sound.
My brother and I have just replaced degrees of Kevin Bacon with hops to the bridge a USS Enterprise. It’s surprisingly quick for most actors.
@NAB it doesn’t need to be super accurate, mine was mostly just boxes representing the key dimensions.
@NAB if you’re familiar with any sort of CAD software you can use that. I modelled a room a while back along with different furniture options so I could move them around like a doll’s house.
Putting speakers on phones was a mistake and when I’m elected Benevolent Dictator of the World I will outlaw them. I will also require a headphone jack in their place though, I’m not a monster.
@anon_opin but why? Maybe if you’re in such a rush you can’t handle one extra car in front you should have left five minutes earlier rather than raging at everyone else about it.
@SecurityWriter the result of training a machine to have the confidence of Silicon Valley techbro in all matters.