Not at all. In France it's very common to have roughly the same proportions for the upstroke and downstroke. Both the first and second 1s are perfectly valid and legible and variations come with handwriting. However the downstroke should roughly end at least at the same level as the upstroke's start.

See this quickly made example, 147 written in French style (above) and English style (below) in my shitty phone handwriting.

As you can see, 1 takes a single stroke and 7 two so we can't mix them.

Fun fact, you can play tough too.

Manager: We (meaning you) need to do task A. How long will it take?

Me: Task A will take X days to do.

Manager: That seems awful long.

Me: How long do you think it should take?

Manager: It surely could not take any longer than Y days.

Me: Ok, which features are you willing to remove to make it fit in this timeframe?

It's surprisingly effective, especially with a bit of seniority.

One of the largest slop-machines targeting one of the most vocal and popular anti-slop edutainment channels as slop feels like a targeted attack...

Am in tech. Surrounded by tech people. Front devs, back devs, data engineers, data scientists and analysts, IT techs...

They know windows. They know macOS as an "easier alternative for normies". Some of them even prefer it because it's "easy". A few of them even know there's a terminal somewhere, but wouldn't git commit from the command line even if their life depended on it.

A lot of them have heard of Linux, in a distant and nebulous way. Most of them still believe that Linux is confined to the server space or a weird dev environment inside WSL because you're developing for servers, that you can't daily drive Linux as a desktop, or that you can't game on Linux. None of them would consider switching even if they spend their day complaining about how shitty windows is.

This is true for about 95% of the tech people I interact with btw. Big tech psyop is real.

As a middle aged man, the best advice I can give you is to state your intentions clearly and unambiguously, and ask it they're ok with it. Consent goes both ways and starts with explicit statements. Nothing fancy or legalese, start with "I would really like to kiss you right now", and go from there. No "vibe of the moment" bullshit. Yes, it's maybe less traditionally romantic. But yes, it'll lead to a much healthier relationship.

There's a thought terminating cliche that boys are dumb and don't get hints. The truth is most if us wouldn't dare do anything remotely inappropriate based solely upon the assumption that hints were dropped. Hints are by definition subtle and easy to miss and/or misinterpret. Some of us are bold enough to take the plunge and ask if the attraction is mutual. Those who initiate sexual contact based solely on this assumption are rapists.

Canada also shares a border with Denmark. At this point Canada is basically Germany

I became a manager about a year ago. Now that I'm part of the "inner circle", I can see firsthand what I suspected for the past 20 years.

There are 2 types of managers.

There are cunts bosses who treat their employees as property for their personal gain and advancement. They demand productivity at all costs (see: LLM-cogsuckers), punish for mistakes and pressure people into responsibilities they should take. They are the ones who want RTO to exert control on their employees. They are the ones who "joke" you must take a half-day leave if you need to go before 6PM. They are the ones who openly shit on their employees (or other teams employees FWIW) because they're not benefiting them enough. They are not part of the team, they feel and act above everyone in it.

The second type, which I strive to be and most of my closest "manager friend" are, are servant-leaders. They want to get shit done by easing roadblocks and making technologically informed decisions. They understand that productivity is a consequence of a functional team and happy employees. They take on responsibility for mistakes and push the team towards finding solutions to prevent them. They understand that Life^TM^ is more important than work. They are an integral part of the team, they're not the boss but a full member with a different role and different responsibilities, like a PO or a data analyst.

As a tech lead first and a trained Scrum Master second, I feel much more comfortable in the second role. I help the team internally and report and manage external roadblocks with other teams. It's what I already know. I hate the hierarchical part of the job.

Il in this picture. This is my "let's do one week worth of code in a single session" mode.

MFW I get a ticket for going 5.374x10^-8^ dumbasses in a 4.633x10^-8^ dumbasses zone

Maybe we need to make freight trains a thing again. Less stress on the roads, less infrastructure changes.

North America has sort of forgot about using legs as a mode of transport.

If they remember to use them a moron in a lifted emotional-support-pickup-truck will break every bone in their body at the first intersection. And get away with it. North American city design is not just car-centric, it's actively human-hostile. Giant stroads, no sidewalks, no bike lanes....

Yes it's already there, you just have to activate the performance overlay in the "•••" menu.

You can easily alter one of the presets to only show battery percentage by editing /home/deck/.config/MangoHud/preset.conf using this documentation.

My goto preset only shows FPS, watts and battery percentage.

The entire country of the Netherlands have proven that infrastructure, not weather, makes cycling the most popular mode of transportation. Hell, most of Nordic big cities are cycling heavens despite their shitty snowy/rainy weather.

Thanks OOP for putting words on what I've been feeling for months.

Were "incentivized" (read "threatened into") pushing features quicker than humanly possible with no regard for quality, sustainability and proper ownership of the code to please one (1) stakeholder who had a barely thought out idea. The amount of tech debt in staggering, broken features come and go as the code is "rewritten" with each commit.

It's completely unsustainable and the only ones who profit from it are the LLM providers. When the whole product collapses, the only one to suffers the losses are the company building that product and their clients. Their employees get fired because it's somehow their fault. LLM providers get even richer because now the remaining employees burn through tokens to try and "fix" millions of nine of code nobody has ever thought out, written and reviewed.

Companies pivoting to "full AI" code are literally committing suicide, for the exclusive benefit of LLM providers. I get that that's Anthropic's and OpenAI's plan all along. I just can't understand the utter stupidity, hubris and amount of kool-aid drinking most CTOs are riding right now.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Geocities pages suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: it starts with hardware.

It's sad to say but a flawless Linux experience out of the box often comes from picking the right hardware first. Chose vendors who actively support Linux. AMD/Intel CPUs, APUs and/or GPUs. Intel WiFi card. Everything else should work ootb except most fingerprint sensors. Avoid laptops with dGPUs. Avoid nVidia. Hardware support comes from hardware vendors, the days of janky community drivers have been over for almost 2 decades. When it's time for you to replace your hardware, do your homework first and/or buy from companies who sell Linux machines (Framework, Tuxedo, Slimbook, Starlabs, System76, some Dells, some Lenovos, etc). You can still buy from random companies but there won't be any guarantees.

Then, the choice of distro in kinda important but not that much. In my 20+ years of actively using and working with Linux, both in the desktop and server space, I've always found Ubuntu and its derivatives kind of janky. I'm a lifelong Debian user, but my best experience on modern hardware have been Fedora on my main laptop and its atomic derivative Bazzite on my gaming rig. Bazzite also comes with a nVidia-specific image for those who can't/wont replace their GPU.

Nowadays to limit interactions between system and user-facing applications, I tend to install most things from Flathub. It might not help with hardware issues, but it helps with stability.

This is perfectly normal.

It also works with a Gaussian: (Noob) haha Fedora go brrr -> (angry advanced) nooo you must use Arch/Nix/Gentoo/Slackware -> (Linus Torvalds) haha Fedora go brrr

Yes. The Steam Frame will come with the following technologies:

• SteamOS, just like the Steam Deck, so you can play Windows and Linux games on-device with Linux (both pancake on a virtual screen and lower requirement VR games will be supported)
• FEX to run x86_64 games on-device (small performance hit, but access to the vast majority of the Proton-compatible Steam library in return)
• native ARM games are confirmed to be side-loadable (VR or not)
• a wireless streaming dongle to natively stream PCVR, with foveated streaming to increase quality and reduce bandwidth requirements.

I'm super hyped and will most probably (pre)order it day one to replace my shitty CV1. I'm also hoping for a Steam Deck effect by pushing developers to optimize and use foveated rendering as it drastically reduces hardware requirements for high quality graphics.

🎶 Too many Kochs 🎵

While the scalpers struck quickly, AMD might end up foiling their plans, as the company says it will continue mass-producing the Ryzen 7 5800X3D Anniversary Edition to ensure supply stabilizes over time.

Good.