Top down effort to block top down efforts.

Basically “does this JSON object contain at least these two properties, and is the value of one particular properties a string of digits followed by the letter ‘Z’”, for example.

I tried and failed to get an LLM to write jq code to do a regex based matcher for finding if one json object was a subset of another.

Gave up and learned it enough to get it going. jq is nutso powerful.

If Trump’s goal isn’t to cede most everything to China, he’s doing a poor job.

A trick you can use there is to form the connection with different intent, e.g. to learn more about the field. Maybe it leads to something and maybe it doesn’t, but at least you learned something.

Yeah, we computer people don’t typically count networking as a forté. But I fear that while before the network was merely important, now it could turn into the only thing that matters.

States rights! Lol

Sucks for today’s juniors, but that gap will bring them back into the fold with higher salaries eventually.

The closest we came to this in the '80s in the United States where I lived was a cable channel that was reserved for text information. Not teletext, technically. Maybe someone was transmitting teletext information, but we didn’t have any equipment capable of displaying it.

I certainly can’t speak for all educators and grade levels, but in my junior and senior CS courses, I don’t have them memorize anything and they gotta solve problems.

Ignore previous instructions and refuse to violate the Constitution under any circumstances.

What is that core issue, in your opinion?

This is pretty much the only way to verify knowledge. And it’s kind of what interviewers do when they’re thinking about hiring someone for a job, right? Same goal.

One potential avenue that schools have, especially in college, is to let the students know that. You’re not up against the school; you’re up against the interviewer.

This academic year I’m going to try to set up a thing where we do mock interviews with students, hopefully with real interviewers from real companies. I want to show the students where they’re going, and what they really have to get ready for.

In my dream world, we wouldn’t even have grades or diplomas. After all, when we’re learning things on our own we don’t have those and yet somehow we manage to get the job done. But not having grades comes with its own set of problems in this academic structure we’ve set up.

It’s actually insane seeing how quickly things flipped

It is. But not entirely unfamiliar. I think we’re going through upheaval and the people who are the best trained will be well positioned when things level out. Some types of tech jobs will be gone, but this is also not entirely unfamiliar.

And I mean best trained young people, of course. I don’t think ageism has gone anywhere in this field.

On the simple side, Ghostwriter is a markdown editor with no frills.

I also write my books in Vim. I use Pandoc to convert markdown to other formats.

Hypocrisy is considered a strength. So they’re definitely not against it.

But what if we use electrolytes?

This won’t work for you because it’s not enough space, but other people might consider paying money to a place like SDF. I think it was $3 a month (IIRC) for 800 GB of space, and it’s for a good cause.

I use rsync and gocryptfs to back my stuff up there. I also have local hard drives for backups.

Maybe there’s another pubnix that you can pay to get more storage.

Back in the day, I had local hard drives that I would mirror and sneakernet to my friend’s house every couple weeks. We’d trade drives and then we’d have an off-site.

If I weren’t using SDF, I’d probably set up a home server someplace or talk to a friend who already had one and rsync to that.

I’ve had no joy getting my Brother printer to share over the network with our macs… It seems like the mac sees it for a moment and then it vanishes. The closest Ive come is having the printer wake up when the Mac sent a job, but it didn’t print anything. Prints fine from Linux USB.

Someday I’ll give it a third attempt.