smiletolerantly

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Hi, I have been to lectures fewer than 10 times throughout my entire master's. No AI, no textbooks, just lecture slides and doing the (ungraded) weekly assignments.

It probably wasn't a smart idea (incl. for my social life), but it also wasn't hard to do.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

YES!

The books are also good, but very different. The show creators made an excellent adaptation of the world and its energy and feeling, but changed characters and plot to something more suitable for a show. Both are great though.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 22 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

No, mate. I don't need a guide, or a tour. Just a single clarifying sentence.

"My product does x". Right now, x could be:

  • help you scam people
  • provide a meditation partner
  • help you learn how to code in Cobol
  • give travel tips
  • ...

What does your product DO? And dong you dare answer "it helps you make money", that does not explain anything.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 25 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

I have clicked every link on that site and I still have exactly zero clue wtf this is.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

FWIW, I have no issues sending mails/having them be received from my self-hosted to Google mail

Pimsleur. It's very different than Duolingo, in that it is almost entirely audio-based. However, at least in my experience, it actually gets you to the point of speaking and understanding a language much more rapidly than Duolingo. Way, way less gamified though. It expects you to put in half an hour a day where you just concentrate on the lesson.

Isn't that what Sichuan peppers do?

Sorry, I should have mentioned: liking bare-metal does not mean disliking abstraction.

I would absolutely go insane if I had to go back to installing and managing each and every services in their preferred way/config file/config language, and to diy backup solutions, and so on.

I'm currently managing all of that through a single nix config, which doesn't only take care of 90% of the overhead, it also contains all config in a single, self-documenting, language.

YES, WATCH STEINS;GATE!

Not Steins;Gate Zero though, that's a sequel.

The most common criticism is that the first handful of episodes are slow, but I hard disagree. Every moment is either re-contextualized later on, or is important character work.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Containers != services.

I don't think I am better than anyone. I jumped into these comments because docker was pushed as superior, unprompted.

Installing and configuring does not an expert make, agreed; but that's not what I said.

I would say I'm pretty knowledgeable about the things I host though, seeing as I am a contributor and / or package maintainer for a number of them...

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They are using a hosting provider - their dad.

"The cloud" is also just a bunch of machines in a basement. Lots of machines in lots of "basements", but still.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

OK, but I'd rather be the expert.

And I have no troubling spinning up new services, fast. Currently sitting at around ~30 Internet-facing services, 0 docker containers, and reproducing those installs from scratch + restoring backups would be a single command plus waiting 5 minutes.

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