Actually yes! I’m in an odd spot where I left for a couple years for another job and came back to the same company. Not only was the tech that was in my place while I was gone grateful, he actually continued to add to it so that when I came back, there wasn’t a whole lot I had to update!

I’ve been writing a handover document literally for years at this point. It’s mostly just for my own reference, but the day the next guy takes my position, they will hopefully be grateful for the effort.

Like all your dad’s friends you don’t like are hanging with him in the garage and you have to pass through and get hazed if you want a soda from the fridge. “Just here for the content, thanks.”

Same here! I can put together a half-descent network in just a few hours, but even programming simple stuff on microcontrollers is a major endeavor. And the documentation is usually terrible or nonexistent. And the tutorials are usually barely able to cover basic questions. At least in the space of networking, there’s enough context clues in the UI that I can piece together the solution I need.

Rocking an X260 myself. Picked it up for something like $100 on eBay a few years ago and it just keeps on ticking.

I feel like an old ThinkPad is like a right of passage on Linux. Just about everyone I know who uses Linux has had one at some point or another.

Okay, this is legitimately cool as heck. This finally helps me wrap my head around the “everything is a file” concept in Linux. Of course it can just copy the executable to memory for later reference. That’s how the system would not completely have a meltdown when you do live updates.

Excellent share!

Did Randall get this one wrong?

The stack doesn’t quite work like that. They would get added like this:

This > buffer
great, is, one > stack

Then, each + pulls the latest off the stack and operates.

First + would pull ‘one’ as it’s the most recent on the stack.

This page does a good job of explaining: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/introduction-to-stack-data-structure-and-algorithm-tutorials/

Edit: you can also see this reflected in the Alt-text:

I NOTATION POLISH REVERSE ❤️

This
great
is
one
+
+
+
!

Even better is when it just opens the homepage of the app instead of a direct link to what was given.

To your first edit, having been a user since 2010, I’ve tried it both ways and sometimes just giving in to a new distribution is easier than spending a week or more combing forums and getting ghosted while your display resolution is broken.

When it comes down to it, unless you’re using Linux as a hobby, I say distro hop away until something clicks in your first few months. When you finally get your hooks into one you feel you understand, that’s when you start putting the effort into perfecting it.

Idle hands and all that. Someone this vacuous with this much access to resources sounds like the perfect target for manipulation by someone with ill intent. Whatever it is may not have been his idea, but he also doesn’t seem like the person to say no to a paycheck for literally any reason.

I don’t know what it is, but I just simply can’t believe that the guy is not deeply involved in some of the most twisted shit.

It’s okay, but the size is the actual issue. You always think a handheld keyboard on a phone feels too small until you bump up to that size. Your thumbs just reach everything, but especially when you factor in the aluminum case and its weight, you’re not going to be journaling on it. It’s more for tasks with light point and click interaction with the occasional data entry. Hence why RCT is one of my go to experiences on it.

I have a Clockwork Pi uConsole and with even just one 18650 I can easily play something classic like Roller Coaster Tycoon for a couple hours. They’re not as bad as you’d imagine.

I guarantee this will cost more and be less hackable than the offerings from ClockworkPi

I just booted up Satisfactory for the first time since it originally came out in EA and I’m excited to dive right in all over again. There have been so many QoL improvements since I left.

The Last Caretaker is an early access game where you pilot a boat that is often caught is rough storms. Worth checking out.

Reaching 1000 hours in Elite:Dangerous. There’s something special about being able to hop in your ship, pick a system anywhere in the Milky Way and be able to go there, given enough time. I’ve barely left the starting area in all this time and only going halfway across for the first time later this year with a few friends.

It’s a wildly big game and I’ll probably never run out of things to do.