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Comment Re:What did it do? (Score 1) 41

You definitely have to know what you're doing.

Hence the rub: if I already know what I'm doing, I don't really need it, even if it saves a bit of time. On the other hand I tried several times to use it for things I knew nothing about (a new communication protocol, a very obscure bash add-on, a complex set of mixed-language libraries never meant to work together, etc...) and I got absolutely nowhere: all the code generated didn't work, wasn't even relevant and a big waste of time overall. I couldn't even coax it to give me even starting points.

Comment How about a different interface? (Score 1) 125

It would be fairly easy for Google to make an interface of YouTube which excludes likes, comments, recommendations, subscriber-only videos, and streaming chats. This would help Google establish their claim that YouTube is a video sharing platform. OTOH, refusing to do this weakens their own argument.

Comment Human nature never changes (Score 1) 179

This guy reminds me of me. When I was a kid I thought I was a great programmer. Then one day I looked at the code for the C Standard Library and realized that 99% of every program I had ever created was not written by me.

Although, prior to this revelation, I never publicly bragged about being the best. So I guess he and I are different in some ways.

Comment Re:What about sex? (Score 1) 57

Yeah, I just saw a movie yesterday where there was some (very mild) tits and nudity and serious theme of sleeping with other people and I was like... how long ago was it that I saw a tit in a movie ? It seems nudity was in every movie (even unrelated ones) a couple decades ago, and now it's all "hide sexual thoughts and body parts or the evangelicals will become incensed..."

For info, the movie was Le semeur and it's okay but not great.

Comment Re: same same. (Score 1) 221

Weird, I've had the opposite experience: stable as fuck. The machine I'm typing this on was 1st installed with Kubuntu in... 2003 I think. It's gone through every non-LTS upgrade. I've changed the system HD several times, cloning it to bigger ones, then cloning it to SSD. I've also changed the machine thrice: from a powerful tower, I've split it to a headless server and a laptop which got updated once more. There were a few hitches (KDE4 to 5 was a pain in the ass for 2 years, Kmail was a bug ridden piece of shit) but never had to reinstall from scratch. I even went Kubuntu -> Neon and then back to Kubuntu for a few years with command line magic.

Comment Re:What's the bit depth? (Score 5, Informative) 25

I wrote the software for the 2 camera testers (one for integration of the CCDs, one for production) but... I don't remember ! I finished the soft 2 years ago. Anyway, it's B&W and probably 16 bits, but I'm not sure, I'd have to dig in the specs I have somewhere. The filter changer is some kind of crazy robot contraption because the filters are 2 meters in diameter, fragile as fuck and so expensive there's no duplicate. The camera CCD took years to assemble from individual CCDs.

Comment Kubuntu ? (Score 2) 111

Does this affect KDE running on X11 with Kubuntu in any way ? Last I tried Wayland didn't support VNC so that's a complete no-no for me. I don't care much about Gnome (besides liking that there's some competition), but KDE has always been nice on Ubuntu (except for the painful KDE4->KDE5 transition years [decades?] ago).

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