Why not both?

Green Is My Pepper

Can that actually happen like this? If Windows killed the bootloader wouldn’t that mean that you couldn’t boot into Kubuntu either? Or can it somehow kill the bootloader when the PC is turned off?

For optimal performance, you should rewrite it in Rust:

inline_python::python! {
    print(js2py.eval_js("(number) => number % 2 ? 'odd' : 'even'")(number))
};

It’s just the normal “Pager” widget, configured to show application icons.

I find “minimap” more descriptive for what I’m doing, because I don’t minimize, nor stack windows, so if a window exists, it has a location.
Which is also ultimately how I use this thing. Imagine a large desk where you need to jump between topics every so often. You’d put related sheets of paper next to each other and leave a bit of space between the groups. Sheets of paper are just application windows in my case (I will open one or more windows per task, I don’t mix tasks together based on application like people usually do). Well, and my desk also happens to be very long, so I can comfortably fit a minimap for it in my panel.

And because I really like multitasking, I’ve actually got multiple desks, in different colors:

For these, I use Plasma’s Activities. The different colors are done by having a transparent panel and then setting the wallpaper to different colors + telling Plasma to use the wallpaper for determining the accent color.

In this screenshot, you can also beautifully see a workspace with 5 Kate windows, which is genuinely where I shoved a bunch of notes, for me to sort through them later. 🙃

I’m guessing, this is what a drink carrier looks like, in case anyone else is wondering:

Not a piece of software I’d use voluntarily: The web version of MS Teams.

unsafe doesn’t deactivate memory safety. It only allows you to then create raw pointers and whatnot, which you could use to circumvent memory safety, but all the normal language constructs still do enforce it.

I get to use Linux at $DAYJOB and I have a rather customized KDE setup (basically window tiling, 20-80 workspaces, a workspace minimap in the panel).
Usually, I’m surrounded by other nerds, who’ll ask about it occasionally, but you know, they’ve heard of or used Linux before, they know that some crazy things can be done.

Now, yesterday, I was in a call with the legal department. I started sharing my screen and explaining my relatively simple problem. And the guy took longer than I expected to respond, which made me quite self-conscious, whether he needs time to process my explanation …or rather what in the fresh hell I did to my computer to make it look like that. 🙃

People here are saying that Waydroid works quite well for running Android apps on mobile Linux.

I tried postmarketOS a few months ago on my SHIFT6mq and for me, the dealbreaker was that I couldn’t get my SIM card to connect, so no mobile internet and no calls. As I understand, this strongly varies between phone models, though.
Aside from that, I did like what I saw a lot. I used Plasma Mobile and that was a more competent UI than stock Android, because well, it is essentially just Plasma with some tweaks. Felt a lot more like the pocket computer I never knew I wanted.

Also, bonus fun fact: “Alter!” as an exclamation probably comes from “Alter Schwede!”, which means “Old Swede!”.

According to Wikipedia, after the Thirty Years’ War, a German duke hired experienced Swedish soldiers to train new soldiers. And because they were experienced, they were also generally old. I have no idea, though, why that stuck around as an exclamation. 😅

Right, so presumably “Ålder” means “age”. In German, we have basically the same word, “Alter”, but we also use it as an exclamation, kind of like “Dude!”.

Now, if you want to exclaim “Alter!” with more disbelief, you say it with a long A and a D in place of the T, which one might write as “Alder”.
And for even more disbelief + almost anger, you can pronounce the “A” very strongly and kind of slur the rest of the word, which one might write as “Alla”.

So, this reads to me like someone exclaiming their growing disbelief. 🙃

(All of this is very informal. These are not official rules you’d find in a dictionary, but younger generations would probably interpret it as I described.)

Ålder: Alla

This tickles my German funny bone. 🙃

I mean, it really isn’t hard to write an application, which won’t work on Windows or macOS. For example, I have a little utility, which adds a text file into a folder underneath ~/.local/ and opens it in my default text editor via xdg-open, so that I can easily jot something down. Both of things are currently implemented Linux-only.

In this case, I could’ve pulled in two libraries to do those things with Windows/macOS support. But it’s also an incredibly simple application. If you build something more complex, there’s a good chance that no library exists and that you still need to make assumptions about the OS.

Of course, a complex applications is likely to be useful enough, that someone wants to use them on Windows/macOS and then contributes support (and pinky-promises to the maintainer to regularly test on those platforms). That’s the other vehicle how lots of open-source applications do support a multitude of platforms.

But yeah, it’s just not quite as much of a given as your comment makes it sound…

Yeah, I don’t care to dunk on them, but you don’t exactly need a UI design degree to see that the contrast between background and foreground is far too low…

This is a highly confusing post for anyone who doesn’t follow the Apple drama…

LÖFFELSTIEL

As in, you call main() recursively? Don’t think, I’ve ever tried that in any language…

You can make external tools available to the LLM and then provide it with instructions for when/how to use them.
So, for example, you’d describe to it that if someone asks it about math or chess, then it should generate JSON text according to a given schema and generate the command text to parametrize a script with it. The script can then e.g. make an API call to Wolfram Alpha or call into Stockfish or whatever.

This isn’t going to be 100% reliable. For example, there’s a decent chance of the LLM fucking up when generating the relatively big JSON you need for describing the entire state of the chessboard, especially with general-purpose LLMs which are configured to introduce some amount of randomness in their output.

But well, in particular, ChatGPT just won’t have the instructions built-in for calling a chess API/program, so for this particular case, it is likely as dumb as auto-complete. It will likely have a math API hooked up, though, so it should be able to calculate a logarithm through such an external tool. Of course, it might still not understand when to use a logarithm, for example.

The problem is that corporations are not holistic organizations. In theory¹, a company could not have any juniors and always just hire seniors from the outside. And if your boss has reason to believe that this is more cost-effective, then they have to strive for that, even if they’re well aware that it cannot work when all companies strive for that.

¹) In practice, I’ve actually found that juniors are important, too. If you staff a project team with only seniors, you quickly end up in a situation, where they don’t talk enough to each other. They know how to solve things technologically, so they don’t need to tell each other about their challenges and what solution they chose.
Similarly, you likely end up in a situation, where only big problems are being tackled, because everyone can tackle big problems and they’re just very visible, highly prioritized problems. But when you add up enough small problems, they become just as problematic.