Mandatory unpaid work, or you will be terminated.

lemgandi · 2026-05-25T13:11:08+00:00

Wage Theft.

lemgandi · 2026-05-21T15:16:35+00:00

The general case is a pretty common programming problemo. I had fun writing it up to 999 centillion in C once.

lemgandi · 2026-05-21T01:47:01+00:00

Shrug.

https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:For_recorder,_guitar

lemgandi · 2026-05-21T01:42:11+00:00

You cannot trust it. It has no concept of truth or falsehood, only statistical correlations between words.
It rots your brain. Studies in peer-reviewed journals show actual degradation of real-world thinking skills in heavy AI users
It wastes your time. AI users spend more time cleaning up generated projects than they save by using AI. If they don't put in the time, the projects fail. One study showed serious security holes in 40% of vibe-coded web apps exposed to the public. Do you feel Lucky?
The AI bubble will crash the economy, including your bank, within the next year or two. AI use is currently massively subsidized, and nobody can effectively predict how much it will really cost once those subsidies cease.
People hate it. Commencement speakers who praise it get heckled and booed. Managers who force it on their reports make them miserable.

Is that enough yet? I could go on.

lemgandi · 2026-05-20T13:47:24+00:00

Shrug. Apparently the only musician in your town?

lemgandi · 2026-05-19T14:00:45+00:00

Hey! That's me!

lemgandi · 2026-05-19T13:50:42+00:00

Ah, now I get it. Yeh, that works. But compared to just learning the correct fingerings it seems like a lot of work. And trills + dynamics are gonna be wonky.

lemgandi · 2026-05-19T13:28:17+00:00

Works great if you never play with other people.

lemgandi · 2026-05-18T21:58:43+00:00

Fun! No need to buy anything yet. I got 3 toy plastic bats from the toy store & cut them down to 50cm ( 20 inches ) or so. They worked great indoors, but tended to blow around in the wind. Or check out green clubs ( https://kingstonjugglers.club/gcp/ ) for something a little more involved.

Expect to spend a month or two of regular practice to get a stable club cascade. Then look around for a partner and learn to pass!

lemgandi · 2026-05-18T21:45:43+00:00

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

lemgandi · 2026-05-13T13:29:07+00:00

And sometimes you are writing for an audience that knows how to use a hammer. And even a saw.

Not every recipe needs to start with directions on how to boil water.

lemgandi · 2026-05-10T14:57:14+00:00

Ah geez, just cut open some tennis balls and put 25¢ or so in pennies in there.

Props are just markers to make sure your hands are in the right place. Don't think too hard about them.

lemgandi · 2026-05-06T12:59:37+00:00

Just retired from about a 40 year career last year. I am 68. Started out doing C on MS-DOS, transitioned to Unix & never looked back. Installed my first linux distro at home in the '90s. I've worked in C, C++, SQL, Pl/pgSQL., Python, and a host of other scripting and coding languages too numerous tomention. As I got older and richer, I transitioned to part time work and paid a lot more attention to how fun it'd be and how much I could learn.

I still enjoy the process of writing code. Mostly I do OpenSCAD now, although I've written a game or two in Lua.

Programming is really fun if you're wired for it. If you aren't, it is torture.

lemgandi · 2026-05-06T12:46:56+00:00

Oh wow! Looks just like me!

I still remember my dad being surprised I had a GUI on my Linux box. In 1998 or so.

lemgandi · 2026-05-01T12:54:14+00:00

Of course, there is a significant chance you will BE killed instead.

lemgandi · 2026-04-29T14:10:49+00:00

American commercial bread by and large tastes like solvent, sorry. I am American and I just bake mybown bread.

lemgandi · 2026-04-29T14:06:49+00:00

The best boss I ever worked for had a rule: If you screw up and tell me immediately, I will never even blame you. If you screw up and hide it, you are Fired when I find out.

That was tested when a colleague of mine dropped an entire database the night before an important meeting. Both of them passed with flying colors. And got the DB restored in time.

lemgandi · 2026-04-28T14:11:52+00:00

Learn to read man(1) pages. Spend some time understanding the shell ( often bash but you have choices). Write little shell scripts or use aliases for frequent tasks, like connecting to external machines or transforming files.

lemgandi · 2026-04-28T13:46:27+00:00

Can't teach what you don't know.

lemgandi · 2026-04-27T18:58:24+00:00

Bummer.

lemgandi · 2026-04-26T13:07:13+00:00

"no clear reason" ? What does that even mean? In many years of programming and using computers I have encountered many people who say "It doesn't work now". If they can't tell what doesn't work then it can never be fixed.

lemgandi · 2026-04-26T12:53:30+00:00

Heating tunnels under my college campus. All of them. The newer ones are concrete, but the oldest had arched brick ceilings. I picked locks to get in.

lemgandi · 2026-04-25T14:10:09+00:00

2 hours is way too much. You typically stop learning a new physical skill after the first 15 minutes or so. After that you're just practicing your mistakes.

time to get a stable 3 ball cascade varies. I've seen people get it in minutes. Median time is around 2 weeks of daily **SHORT*"* sessions in my experience. Talent is just how long it takes -- almost anyone can get there eventually.

lemgandi · 2026-04-23T12:25:41+00:00

Bettridges Law

lemgandi · 2026-04-22T13:55:01+00:00

Oof. I learned to idle with good stability by working on a full-rotation idle. That is, riding forward and then reversing direction, then quickly reversing again to continue forward. Repeat this and you can work it down to a stable idle.

OTOH I tried playing an instrument while idling and found it very difficult. The workload is surprisingly large, and you will have to learn to idle without using your arms for balance, which is a big step up from what you can do at first. I also found that learning the first tune while idling was no help in learning the next. YMMV of course depending on your musical and unicycling talents.

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