I was a pretty experienced programmer when I first read SICP, but I still found it incredibly valuable. I’d recommend it to anyone.

I had pretty much the same experience finding the virtual memory settings on a win11 machine the other day. Same 20 year old dialog, now buried 5 more layers deep.

I always would. The only time it becomes a bit ambiguous is if there are two turn lanes, e.g. you’re turning left from the second-to-left lane. In that case I’d usually indicate later, maybe when I’ve stopped or the white line is solid, so it’s clear I’m not trying to change lanes.

I’m probably over thinking it.

Fair enough, most of that isn’t something a user should have to worry about.

VT is just Virtual Terminals. You always have one of them active, and in most distros you can switch to others by Ctrl-Alt-F1 through F12. In some distos it’s just Alt-F1.

So if you press Ctrl-Alt-F2 you should be brought to a text login. For crazy historical reasons you may have to either press Ctrl-Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to your usual graphical session.

Arch docs for example: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console

I would try:

• see if you can get logs of the resume process
• suspend from a text VT and see if that changes the behaviour
• boot into single user mode and try suspend from there
• boot an older LTS or a newer test kernel and see if it has the same problem

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Lol

I use gnome-session-inhibit quite a bit, but it’s hard to imagine a good way to automate it.

Sometimes I inhibit idle to keep something on screen, and sometimes I just inhibit suspend so something can complete.

It probably doesn’t make sense for the terminal to have anything more than a protocol to control it. The only real benefit to that would be in remote sessions, and it’s not really clear how it should work when multiple machines are involved.

Unfortunately we are in clown-world and the actual fucking news is rage-inducing, even with impeccable journalism.

Is putting ‘open’ in front of something the equivalent of putting .com on the end in 1999?

Make this sound better: we’re aware of the outage at Site A, we are working as quick as possible to get things back online

How does this work in practice? I suspect you’re just going to get an email that takes longer for everyone to read, and doesn’t give any more information (or worse, gives incorrect information). Your prompt seems like what you should be sending in the email.

If the model (or context?) was good enough to actually add useful, accurate information, then maybe that would be different.

I think we’ll get to the point really quickly where a nice concise message like in your prompt will be appreciated more than the bloated, normalised version, which people will find insulting.

Image: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson.

Ouch

This sounds like good engineering, but surely there’s not a big gap with their competitors. They are spending tens of millions on hardware and energy, and this is something a handful of (very good) programmers should be able to pull off.

Unless I’m missing something, It’s the sort of thing that’s done all the time on console games.

I still think Infinite Jest is in pole position:

• unqualified populist US president
• canada (and mexico?) subjugated to the US
• subsidised time (selling everything including the calendar to the highest bidder)
• catapulting garbage into giant superfund sites

edit: also I think we can be on track for both Infinite Jest and Idiocracy

Something that worries me about that is attestation. This is the advice from the GrapheneOS Devs:

https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide

They’re asking app developers to trust their keys specifically, which would mean that the app might work on GrapheneOS, but not my fork of GrapheneOS with some cherry picked fix I want.

It would be much better if we stamped this out now, before all online services require attestation.

It sounds like you’d benefit from having a project in mind. I always learned programming languages by building something I wanted, or by tinkering on someone else’s project.

That Purple Mountains album is great. It’s just heartbreaking that it ended up being a suicide note.