Sort of, but aimed more at general purpose computing rather than gaming
I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.
Sort of, but aimed more at general purpose computing rather than gaming
How would y’all feel if Valve started selling PCs with their flavor of Linux on it?
The guy who wrote this is gone
I’ve gotten about 1,000 alert emails in the last 8 hours because of this
It’s not pride, it’s just that I know how to use it really well and that makes it easy for me to use.
But it’s really only for viewing files on another system over SSH. For local work I use Sublime Text
Moshing should be an Olympic sport
Of course, that would be metal as hell
Pantera. Have them play “Walk” with the speed walkers on stage
And Woz wasn’t the only genius who worked at Apple at the time. Pretty much everyone who worked on the original Macintosh was brilliant.
The first job I had out of college was doing development on the production server with this method of version control. I still have nightmares.
The problem with “It’s self-documenting” is that there are inevitably questions about what it says, and there’s no additional resources to pull from.
Totally agree. And I’d argue that we don’t even need technical writers. Even if all people do is correct grammar and spelling mistakes it would be helpful, let alone actually writing docs. It’s one of the easiest ways non-technical folks can get involved with open source projects.
If you know your weakness is writing documentation, please hire a technical writer.
I’m really thankful that I had a great English teacher in high school, and that my degree required a technical writing class. Being able to write a coherent email got me further in my career than the technical stuff I learned in college.
It’s also why the humanities are important. Stemlords who brag about not doing literature classes write terrible documentation.
You have to assume some level of end user knowledge, otherwise every piece of documentation would start with “What a computer does” and “How to turn your computer on.”
I’ve found the best practice is to list your assumptions at the top of the article with links to more detailed instructions.
One of the many things I loved about Sagan’s Contact is that, at the end, they found a pattern in pi when put into base 13. He didn’t really go into it as it was the end of the book, but I really wish he’d survived to write a sequel.
If pi is truly infinite, then it contains all the works of Shakespeare, every version of Windows, and this comment I’m typing right now.
One day my MIL’s Macintosh stopped being able to connect to the Internet over its internal ethernet, which was directly connected to the cable modem.
They called Comcast a bunch of times to no avail, so they sent someone out to check it. He had no idea what was wrong, so I said “Let’s connect your laptop to the Mac with an Ethernet cable just to make sure the Ethernet works.”
Dude looked at me like I had two heads. “It doesn’t work like that.”
I proceeded to grab a patch cable, hook them together, and mount the Mac’s public shares on the Windows machine, thus proving the Ethernet worked on both systems.
Turns out Comcast had changed the MTUs on the modems one night, which made the Mac not work for some reason. But getting a cheap router and putting it between solved the problem.
Never ask if it’s plugged in. Always ask them to unplug it and plug it in again. That way they don’t feel condescended to.
Think of it like an engine: The mechanics working on the engine aren’t the engineers designing the thing.