iamtherealwalrus

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I agree you can find an answer quickly on SO. And you can find it even faster by asking an AI. But you will not have learned much, if anything, by copy/pasting the answer. As opposed to reading the documentation, which might have taught you how to solve similar issues in the future.

I have met few colleagues in my career who bothered to read the official documentation, even when failing to find the answer on Google. Most would either just give up and say the problem is unsolvable (it never was) or try hack after hack until something stuck, never knowing why it worked.

on Tech heresy · c/3dprinting · 3 pts · 27d

Just because you become an adult doesn’t mean you have to stop having fun and doing fun things. Becoming an adult means you can do whatever you want and not give a s*** what others think.

I have heard the argument that since all particles originate at the big bang, their path and interactions with each other are predetermined throughout all time. I.e. because they all started out in a specific path they will interact with other particles at a set time and place, causing the particles they interact with to change their path, and so on. But since it’s all predetermined free will does not exist, the particles in our brain also originate from the big bang in one way or another.

The time it takes to open and list a directory using Nautilus in GNOME desktop. It can take 5-10 seconds with a directory of 5 files, a lot longer if there are 50 files in a directory. And all the "solutions" I find on the web involve some kind of guesswork and tweaking settings left and right, hoping to somehow hit a magic combination that works.

I have tried over and over for 30 years now and every time I discover something is missing, something I’m not willing to give up. Today it was Google Drive. There are multiple solutions for Linux to mount Google Drive as a folder in the local filtersystem, none of them offer decent performance compared to the windows client. Every time I try Linux something like this comes up.