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Powershell doesn't but not everything is powershell. Win32 underneath pokes its head out occasionally. And I don't want to use powershell. It's horrid in so many ways.

I'm a Unix user since about '93 for ref as well. I am poisoned with forward slashes everywhere :)

The big problem is the filesystem is still vastly different.

The web, Unix, Linux, OSX, pretty much everything other than Microsoft uses properly namespace driven forward-slash separated paths with no drives and case sensitivity.

That you can't fix, merely abstract it away. I am tired of mapping between the two.

   scp myfile.txt winmachine:/d/Users/Whoever/Documents/Projects/X/File.txt

Then I cut and paste. Oh no wait I can't. Now I have to replace all the /'s with \'s and d with d:...

Or

   scp myfile.txt linmachine:/home/whoever/documents/projects/x/file.txt

I'm done and moved over the fence. \ means escape. / means path separator. No \\ problems either.

I was a systemd proponent until I had a hosed box. At that point I learned that alternatives are important. It made my life very difficult due to how opaque it is.

Whike problems are surmountable, rehearsing for failure is advised.

Nope just internal screen. This was a clean install too. On 2013 rMBP.

And now I'm sad.

This was one of the reasons I never adopted Linux on a laptop. Power management simply never worked. I used Windows for many years on a ThinkPad with Linux in a VM but this felt dirty. Bought a Mac and life was good. Well it was until 10.13. 50% of wake up events I have to log in to a trashed desktop now.

It makes me long for a computer nailed to a bit of ethernet that is never turned off.

Edit: also I just went through hell trying to get a USB to serial converter working on OSX. Not exactly a crap one, a Keysight U1173B with Prolific chipset.

This is lost on me because I’ve had to reinstall Windows 10 twice this year. Boot loop and latent network on a Thinkpad T440.

Before that, I did it once a year going back to NT3.51

Windows RT 2. We know where that went.

None of MSFT’s innovation actually works properly though. If they just invented the light bulb you’d have to replace it once an hour.

That's exactly what I was using mine for.

  << INV SWAP INV + INV >> 'RPAR' STO

Then I realised I don't bother with it. Can get close enough in my head. I only want to solve for one variable so the Casio gets full marks there.

It's always the software that is the problem however.

Not sure I like eInk displays at all.

Emacs is a class of editor these days, not a specific editor.

I get the feeling it will never happen. The nearest thing to this was the TI Voyage 200. Everything went downhill after that.

No it doesn't. It's really just a scientific calculator with a solver built in. It handles perhaps 95% of my requirements pretty well. Anything more complicated than that heads to a mac. I've been using scipy, matplotlib and sympy on that.

The basic graphing calculators from Casio, while not overly powerful have a programming language that you can effectively drive on the device very easily. I've seen people do some amazing stuff on them.

As a former RPL programmer out of self interest, I think I’d rather gouge my eyes out now. It’s one of those languages, like Perl, where you come back to a project later and can’t understand any of it or remember how to write it.

I respect people who managed to build a working CAS in it however!

I still own an HP50g for the sake of nostalgia but it has been replaced with python and a new Casio FX-991EX now.

Streaming allows you to pull the whole album rather than making arbitrary choices though which is a good thing.

It has however wrecked my attention span which I’m trying to fix. I bought a CD player with a monitor output and some CDs and some nice headphones. I can actually enjoy my favourite albums now.

Just applying selinux policy on CentOS 7 will kill the CPU credits on a micro instance. Running updates is a risky businesss.

This is really good news. Enough for me to hold onto my Z620 for a bit longer.

If you get them crammed into one hour then yes. In your own time they are quite easy. I required a bit of tutor support if I'm honest but if you can get over the basic calculus hill you will be fine. There's a lot more material out there to support you than there was in the mid-1990s! No having to fight for the last copy of referenced text in the university library either.

I have literally never used anything I learned on that part of the course however.

Agree with this.

I rather like HyperPhysics here: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/index.html

They are however terrible at remembering to delegate them from experience!

Yes and no. The textbooks we were given were reference structured. Ergo the path through them was defined by the lectures and the course which was mostly undocumented. There needs to be a course guide that spans the entire material with independent guidance.

A good modern example of this is The Art of Electronics which is a textbook format. There is a companion book which is Learning the Art of Electronics which contains exactly the structure I want to see, which is your lectures, tutorials and labs in a structured format on paper. You can complete these with guidance, without guidance, with or without lectures and tutorials.

The lectures should be more interactive and be a result of the above. Build your knowledge on more than one pillar and some structure so to speak.

Some of the course ecosystems you see are very closed with respect to structure and you are carried through without being permitted to see the path.

Hard course (electrical engineering, laplace fun!), shit lecturer (complacent, dismissive of questions), skipped lecture (never although I probably should have just stuck my face in the course books).

I don't want a video. I want the material written down in a formal tutorial style that can be reviewed and updated and consumed at a suitable pace. That pace can be faster for the bits I understand and slower for the bits I don't.

To clarify, I too was before the time of laptops and recording technology being available. MiniDiscs had just come on the scene then and the notes are worth nothing without what appears on the OHP and the contextual timing of them. Video recording was impossible.

Really every lecture should be recorded and links handed out to students.

A big killer is that the lecturer has been doing the same lecture for 20 odd years and is complacent or prefers to defer feedback to the end. Everyone is lost then. Same with meetings. Questions at the end? Context gone!

I will sit there in a meeting (or retrospectively in a university lecture) and regularly derive nothing of value at all from my notes, be they written or typed. It's the media that is wrong, not the note taking medium. You can't rewind a meeting or a lecture. You can't pause to think. You can't review the text in the middle. Everything is immediate, transient. If you lose the pace, then everything after that point is wasted.

Lectures and meetings are broken, not the notes.

Now I will tend to write up my own notes in my own time on matters (in Pages for lack of any motivation to try anything else).

I thought the same as my vision isn't exactly great, but you can tell the difference and I wouldn't go back. At least between my old ThinkPad T440 (1440x900) and my 15" rMBP that is.

Indeed. Assholes we need. But we got the freedesktop/gnome and poettering assholes instead of the right assholes.

I’d rather have a German breakfast for lunch but that’s impossible here. I have some German blood, from Essen, which is a town of great eaters apparently. Doritos it is instead. Although I’ve taken to getting popcorn with my lunch now. It’s actually quite nice!

Of course I queue, silently and obediently, while posting about how cold it is on the messaging app of the hour :)

Decent home made sandwiches is an art that isn’t common in the UK for certain. However they limp simple things have two characteristics that the others don’t have: they will taste no worse after four hours banging around on public transport and they are extremely cheap. To keep yourself in a healthy supply of good sandwiches with variety means that you have to purchase a large variety of expensive things in and expend a lot of time. Time and money are lacking. Ergo the prepackaged ones are a good trade off especially under the “meal deal” banner.

Plus you can now waltz in and out of a supermarket without talking to a single soul here and sit there on your own at lunch being miserable, another British pastime which I throughly enjoy :)

I’m glad I’m not alone in enjoying the marked down pricing of a breakfast triple. There is nearly a fight to the death on the sandwiches here if they are in short supply.