MXX53

joined 2 years ago
[–] MXX53@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

I am using this to teach my 4 year old programming and general understanding of how computers process information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDR_paper_computer

We are still working on understanding more complex math concepts, but she understands general addition, multiplication and subtraction. Division has been a little harder.

But, I would say she generally understands how to process “code” written for the computer and write some of her own, really simple applications (with some heavy help from dad).

I’m thinking of sticking with this for a couple years, and then we are going to move to a small LMC that I wrote in C some time ago.

I’ve also thought about using FORTH, but I am probably getting ahead of myself a bit.

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

I wish I could help. The only thing I can say is my work agreement just says that anything I make using resources provided by the company (computers, servers, software, internet access) can be claimed by the company. However, if I use my own computer, software license, my own internet, outside of work hours and not on work premises, then it is mine.

I think the biggest difference might be that although I make software for my employer, my employer is not a software company. So the stuff I make is not sold or intended to ever be sold by the company for profit, but used by the company in their industry to make the work easier and more efficient.

The company I work for is also a part of a larger consortium with promises to share software between all of the organizations and companies to elevate the industry in which we work as a whole.

Hope some of that helps a bit, but I understand if it doesn’t.

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

This is the perfect mod for me! When I play these games I love to get real cars that I would have driven or ridden in either as a kid or adult, and push them to their absolute limits. I will be getting this mod asap.

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

We all suck at piloting lol. I have crashed into the sun, planets, etc over and over again. You get better at it with time though.

Best thing I did when playing that game was to stop trying to figure it out, and just start letting my curiosity drive me. Things intrigued me, and that drove me to go try and figure it out. Eventually the pieces start to come together. When I felt stuck or confused, I just went somewhere else and poked around for a bit elsewhere.

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

I did. Loved it. Echoes of the eye is a really good addition to the based game and honestly other than the base game, the only game I have very been choked up at.

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 15 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I have a few from childhood, but the gaming high I am chasing now is whatever Outer wilds was. A beautiful story told through exploration and discovery. I just want to go back and experience for the first time again.

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

Back when I was a freshman in college, I had a regular laptop (Sony Vaio) and at the time netbooks were popular and my girlfriend (now wife) had got me one for Christmas.

Win 7 starter was garbage, XP was fine, but not ideal. I ended up trying out Ubuntu netbook remix since it was supposed to be lighter on resources. At the time I was a pre med student and wanted something for knocking out documents, and reading papers with enough battery to get me until I had to go to work. The iPad wasn’t out yet so that wasn’t an option.

I had a ton of fun getting it working, even the Broadcom chip was a fun challenge. Once it was working, I just really liked the look and feel. I preferred the Unix file structure to windows as well as the terminal experience, using bash vs powershell.

I ended up writing a few programs and apps for myself specifically for that netbook, and it quickly became my primary way of interacting with a computer. I eventually ported my Sony over which had the challenge of writing a couple drivers to get some things working with minimal compatibility.

Following this, I switched from pre med to software engineering and eventually graduated with a degree and I have now been working with software and using Linux ever since. Even now, I am the sole Linux system administrator in the company I work for and manage a handful of servers and deployments.

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the only thing EA has released in years I was interested in. Wasn’t going to buy it anyways, and now I can’t play it even if I wanted to. I’ll just stick to session and skater XL if I want the skate experience.

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

I would go for mint.

I want to suggest something immutable, but even when I use it, I have just had some issues occasionally or when trying to get the one off software here and there.

Of all the people in my family, even elderly, mint has been the easiest transition and I have very rarely needed to perform any additional maintenance outside of doing updates for them here and there.

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

just for anyone curious, this does work, but it does seem to also remove some of the accuracy of the touch keyboard. Funny enough, the resizing jittery keyboard with suggestions is substantially more accurate and easier to type on than the stationary one. Grass is always greener I suppose. I reinstalled for now in hopes in the future I can have all of the features, without the keyboard resizing on its own.

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

I appreciate the lead. I struggled to find things that worked (admittedly didn’t look very hard). I’ll check it out tonight.

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I’ve been using gnome fedora on my surface. What drives me nuts is the keyboard resize when it starts putting suggested words above the keyboard. Makes typing a pain in the ass. I can live with everything else, I just want to turn off the word suggestions. I cannot find a setting to disable it.

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