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I mean, pushing pennies up my nose is a transferable skill in that I could push pennies up anyone else’s nose, and I could even make a whole TV career out of a show where I push pennies up people’s noses on the street.

So I’ll instead amend my statement to say that guile isn’t a common or often sought after skill. 😉

NixOS (and GuixSD) is a whole operating system. But base guix and Nix is a package manager that you can install into any existing distro and use for as many or as few packages as you want.

So you can give it a shot in roughly no time, is what I’m saying.

The main difference between the full system ones and the package manager ones is obviously that it manages system level packages and the kernel, but also that they have configuration systems setup to run daemons and manage system config. But other than that it’s just the same paradigm as the package manager version.

Yeah! I was just coming here to recommend GuixSD or NixOS! Not because they’re normal, but because they’re not, and you have an opportunity to screw around 😅

Fedora and Debian are different but also pretty similar. Arch or Gentoo are more different. The atomics like bazzite and silverblue are even more different. And then there’s NixOS and GuixSD that are basically a completely different paradigm of how to setup a system. And that might be frustrating if it doesn’t work for you, but as a test computer go wild! Heck, try NixOS and GuixSD to experience their differences from each other!

The only other thing I might recommend for a challenge is something like Linux From Scratch where you don’t have any distro and you just build everything yourself. Definitely not recommended for normal people! It’s a project rather than something you can just try out for a weekend. And it may be frustrating, who knows. But if you’re into that kind of thing it may be enlightening!

Listen, I use guix so I’m not against you, but claiming that Guile, or even any scheme / lisp, is a transferable skill is a stretch 😛

As a software developer for 20 years, configuring guix is the only time I’ve encountered guile. And the only time I’ve used any kind of lisp is when I forced myself to during a coding challenge or advent of code thing, just for interest’s sake.

So again, I know what you’re saying, but for me, deep in the industry, guile might as well be a bespoke language for configuring guix 😅

For sure, and the Pacific Ocean is vast. So you go East and find Japan, and then for a long time it’s understood that there’s nothing off Japan’s east coast, and they’re the eastern edge of the world. So they’re the land of the rising sun. Seems fair!

The “where I live” part is key. Because very likely this person is in SF, where they cannot buy a luxurious house cash with that money, and where cost of living eats surprisingly far into that stupid high number.

But notably, this is why all the normal people who don’t make a half million dollars a year can’t live in SF! 😅

I always assumed the name was more of a reference to audio Master Recordings.

It’s the original tapes or whatever that all copies are derived from. It’s also where the term “remastering” comes from, as in “we went in and rebuilt a new master from the individual tracks, and this is the new master now”, versus just making another copy of the master for a re-release.

Yeah, typically per year. And usually it’s called Total Compensation because some of it is in salary, some in stock, some in stock options, sometimes even some kinds of perks, etc.

So all of that gets balled up into Total Compensation, which is different than annual salary

I can least kinda appreciate this guy’s approach. If we assume that AI is a magic bullet, then it’s not crazy to assume we, the existing programmers, would resist it just to save our own jobs. Or we’d complain because it doesn’t do things our way, but we’re the old way and this is the new way. So maybe we’re just being whiny and can be ignored.

So he tested it to see for himself, and what he found was that he agreed with us, that it’s not worth it.

Ignoring experts is annoying, but doing some of your own science and getting first-hand experience isn’t always a bad idea.

I’ve played a bunch of Valheim with friends, but I can’t do it by myself. The openness is cool, but I can’t grind, so any kind of survival or crafting game becomes tedious so fast.

It seems like fun when other people do it, but it just doesn’t happen for me. Oh well!

A few people mentioned Saint’s Row, and it basically wasn’t even on my radar as a series I knew about. I’ll check it out!

All good info, thanks! Time to put some stuff on a wishlist…

Agreed! Okay, if Just Cause 3 is alright, I might give that a shot. And it’s good to know the newer GTAs are still recommended. Thanks!

Yeah, I said in another reply I didn’t even think of Spiderman, but I actually have been playing the remaster of the first modern one, and I agree fully. It totally matches this vibe and it’s pretty great!

Subnautica and I have a tricky relationship…

I tried it once and bounced off basically right away due to needing water constantly.

Then years later I tried again and got into it for about 15 or 30 hours, and was having a great time, but then I hit a point where I lost immersion. I could feel what they needed me to do to get the resources I needed to progress, but I wasn’t into it, and then a big monster broke my favourite little sub and I was like “fuck this, I’m not going to grind around getting the resources to rebuild my sub, I’m out”

But there was some time where I enjoyed it in the middle there!

Oh yeah! I didn’t even think to mention it, but I did really dig just swinging around in Spiderman!

I’ve been using a printer called 4barcode for a while. It has an apt package with ppd cups drivers in it, and it works well.

I don’t know the exact model, and I think the brand of the printer might not even be 4barcode and it’s just a different “brand” but really they’re all the same?

That having been said, the one I have once failed to work with a brand of labels on a roll I bought in a pinch, but the fanfold ones I’ve been using from Amazon work well.

I fully understand. But if it helps (without major spoilers), the horror elements are not permanent, and as you learn to progress you learn to work around them and through them.

But yeah, if they’re too deal-breaky upfront, I totally get that. You do spend a lot of time, pun intended, in the dark.

Sure but… I’m pretty sure the word and title does come from him specifically

As a person who didn’t work on New Vegas, and in fact has never even played a Fallout game, I’d like an invitation if we’re giving them out!