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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • As much as I don’t like AI I don’t blame him for using it. Opensource is a thankless sector where maintainers put in massive amount of work for nothing in return. If AI is helping him then all the power to him.

    That being said we don’t know how AI code generated currently will age. We know how the code 3 years ago ended up being slop of hard to maintain code but modern models are a lot more competent. Maybe he shouldn’t have removed the coauthored by Claude thingy but in the end it’s him using a tool and verifying it’s output.

    I used lutris back in the day for playing rocket league and I’d also use it today. I feel we should give this guy the benefit of the doubt for now. If in the future Lutris becomes less stable we should absolutely blame AI but until then I’ll hold off on my judgement.



  • I like the one about eggs and milk.

    My wife says “Bring liters of milk, if they have eggs, bring 12” and gets upset when I bring her the 12 liters.

    I got another bad one I just made.

    A programmer of a fishing app had a rough break-up but all is well because there are plenty of fish in the C.

    Java is for kids and C# is for adults because you don’t want the kids to C# edges.

    print("I got a funny joke for you, just give me a couple of tries.") 
    chars = string.ascii_lowercase + " " 
    while true:
        l = random.randint(20, 50)
        print("".join(random.choice(chars) for _ in range(l)))
        print("Ok, the last one maybe wasn't funny but give me one more try")
    





  • First pick a desktop environment, currently KDE, Gnome and Cinnamon are the best.

    • Gnome: Opinionated design like apple
    • KDE: tons of options.
    • Cinnamon: A bit fewer options than KDE but still a lot.

    All of them are very robust and have a massive user base.

    Then pick a base to operate on. Fedora, Ubuntu and Mint are all good options.

    • Fedora and Ubuntu are good for newer hardware and 99% of the time just works.
    • Mint just works all the except for newer hardware.

    Nvidia GPUs are not a big issue but you have to install the proprietary driver yourself for best performance and fewest bugs.

    My pick for you is something your friend uses if you have a friend on Linux otherwise Fedora KDE or Kubuntu.











  • For fun I’m going to explain why. So air can hold some amount of water in it at any temperature. Water energy in form of heat is not evenly distributed so some molecules move faster than others, at the surface some move fast enough to escape the water and into the air. That’s called evaporation, boiling does however require 100°C.

    This also explains why humid weather affects evaporation (lower capacity to hold water in air) and at high humidity there’s an a similar chance of water being deposited to the body of water as water escaping which affects evaporation speed a lot.

    Honestly, I really like this quality of water, it would be super annoying to deal with otherwise.