gandalf_der_12te

I feel you.

I’m 24 y/o now, and have never had a serious job interview in my life. The few jobs that I’ve had, I got through family connections, but I can’t only rely on them (they’re seasonal jobs).

So, I’m planning to do something like cashier at a local grocery store now. They hire students with no real background in the field, and that’s just what I have. Also, I’m trying to get to do some voluntary work (homeless daycare organization). Let’s see how it all turns out.

Honestly, having a declarative package manager is pretty important.

Consider the following: We’ve had the transition from Sys V Init to Systemd recently. But what does it actually mean?

It means, that instead of running a command to start a service, you now flip a switch in a clear, standardized way. The advantage is that you can get a table-like overview over all the services that are currently running. You get an overview, in other words. That is worth a lot because it brings structure and clarity into your system.

Now, with package management it’s the same way. Instead of running a command to install a package, we should instead give a list of all the packages that we want to have installed, and the package manager should take care of making sure that they are installed. That would improve clarity, because you get a list of all the packages that are installed. It might also increase efficiency if you’re installing many packages, because large parts of the work can be done in parallel. And importantly, you get reproducibility. Imagine you just have a file where it names all the packages that should be installed. You can just take that list and copy it to another machine. Now you’ve cloned your package installations. I guess things like Docker, with their docker files, are kinda already going in that direction. But it would be nice to have support for it in the mainline operating systems.

I never said it was an “artificial” next big thing.

I only said it’s a next big thing.

AI is the last next big thing

And then there is solar panels and spaceflight.

But after that, yeah, probably that’s the end of it.

Apparently California is pretty far progressed on its track to renewable energy?

What’s shown on the image is california electricity generation in April May 20, 2024 (But the data is representative for all of April as well). Yellow is solar, red line is demand.

I don’t have the source rn, I only have this screenshot stored on my phone.

So wie die Ordnung stets ins Chaos geht,

wenn keine Kraft dagegen steht,

so herrscht das Chaos nie allein:

Es braucht die Ordnung, um zu sein.

Either we guarantee basic income, or we declare human life worthless and shoot those responsible for our misery.

I have never taken medication in my life, so I can’t tell you. But I can tell you this:

When you’re taking drugs (for recreational purposes) for the first time, the general advice is to start with a low dosage (like, half of what is “normal”). That significantly reduces the potential to do harm, and gives you an “easy” introduction.

yes that too

I think that we have a perception bias towards things that interest us.

Since the elements in the top-right corner (C, O, N, P, S, Si, Fe, Al, Na, …) are interesting to us, that’s what we typically look at. And in that region, things are fairly balanced. It’s only in the regions where we don’t typically look, where we said “let’s just make it all metal so the categorization is done, call it a day, and move on”. I think.