It doesn’t have to be that way, if you have a CI/CD process that prevents it.

Don’t get your hopes up. My flights were absolutely packed about 2 weeks ago.

That is famously a bad idea.

My main one is to learn shortcuts on your most used programs. Using the mouse for everything is a waste of time, but that has been said multiple times.

My second is to create scripts to do a bunch of repetitive tasks. For example, I have a script I run on my work PC after I log on to the VPN that starts my “always on” programs (like notepad++), unlocks the hosts file, etc. I have some sendto scripts for converting files with pandoc, fetching multiple git repos in one go, etc. It just speeds up things and avoids errors versus me doing them manually.

On Windows I use PowerShell and on Linux I use bash, meaning they work without additional software installed.

Jeg tenkte ikke på at mange innvandrere kanskje kunne bare sitt morsmål pluss norsk, men det har du helt rett i. Jeg tror de som har gått gjennom norsk skole sikkert kan i hvert fall litt engelsk, men det er verre for de som kom hit som voksne.

Har du erfart at de som f.eks. snakker arabisk bruker det som felles språk når norsk ikke strekker til? For eksempel hva skjer på en arbeidsplass i Norge, det det finnes norsktalende og flere grupper av innvandrere på samme sted: polsk talende, arabisk talende, osv? Snakker de engelsk?

Ja folk og steder er veldig variert, selvsagt. Min erfaring fra jeg på Sunnmøre generelt er at de yngre snakker engelsk helt fint. Det finnes også det som unngår engelsk fordi de selv synes ikke de kan det så godt, men de forstår ofte godt engelsk likevel så lenge det ikke går for fort med vanskelige ord. Denne gruppen består mest av de eldre, men også noen få yngre jeg kjenner. Det er sjelden jeg har truffet noen som ikke forstår noe engelsk. Men det er selvsagt bare hva jeg har opplevet, ikke en universell greie.

Norwegians will speak English to you whether you want them to or not. Learning written Norwegian is relatively easy.

Jeg er norsk og bor i Amerika, dog ikke i de områdene Amerikanorsk snakkes. Jeg hadde ikke hørt om det før nå. Det er visst en egen norsk dialekt som snakkes i norske samfunn i deler av USA. Det er ikke den norske versjonen av Spanglish. Kunne vært artig å høre en innfødt snakke med den dialekten.

Yeah, I get it. I’ve had many libraries fail me in as many ways, which is why I consider it lucky to not have to implement my own. I work in .net these days, but there have been times where I had to just dig into the xml inside the xlsx and use xml tools. Those were mostly one-offs, thankfully.

Back when I did Java I had a frustrating experience with IBM’s libxml causing our app to crash after several days due to a memory leak. I didn’t have access to the production environment so it took me probably 3 weeks to find the cause and only after digging through a crash dump provided by the sysadmin. Not related, but you triggered my traumatic memory :)

I don’t know what you’re trying to do with Excel, but based on your posts, I can only wish you good luck. I’m happy to say that I have been able to outsource low level parsing to third party libraries for my needs so far. Well, except the interpreting semantic formatting part. That was on me.

You need another dragon for Excel and its two date systems.

I think ma may be the closest thing to Norwegian «modern» in the sense that it is more of a dialect/region difference than an adult/child thing. In my experience, ma is used more in the South and in rural dialects in the US. I’ve heard modern used more in Eastern dialects in Norway. Maybe more curiously, I’ve mostly heard modern used only in the sense of “my mom” (third person) but rarely to address them. Maybe others can chime in on their usage of it. Norwegian has a lot of regional variation.

I’m Norwegian and say «mor» (mother). My mom asked me to use that instead of «mamma» (“mom”) when she thought it sounded childish.

You can also say «modern», but to my ear it’s a little more harsh sounding. Maybe it’s a dialect thing.

In English, I don’t think many adults would normally say “mommy”, but many adult Norwegians say «mamma».

So to me, at least, a closer match is mom=mamma and mother=mor and mommy has no Norwegian equivalent.

My reaction as well. He was an absolute master of shaggy dog stories. The punchline is not the point, the delivery is.

He may still have enjoyed seeing this. Maybe make another long and hilarious joke about it. RIP Norm.

That’s awesome. My 1993 self is very envious of your rig.

I have not been able to find the case again since. It was a local shop that built it from parts, so it was not a big brand. I didn’t pick the parts either, since I knew nothing about PCs at the time, and it showed lol.

I had the exact same configuration. 4MB RAM upgraded to 8MB. 40MB HDD upgraded to 200MB later. And the fugliest case with triangular pastel buttons you ever saw. Ran Windows 3.11 then Slackware Linux on that for many years.

Mod_perl. Now there is a name I haven’t heard in a long time. My paralysis demon appreciates your triggering my PTSD.

I have had weird issues ever since upgrading in place from Fedora 41 to 42 also, but I have an AMD card. For example digikam suddenly stopped working unless I run it as flatpak or I force it to use the igpu. Smb4k stopped auto mounting and I sometimes have to try it a couple of times before it works. Random UI stuff would glitch and then be fixed in an update. Just odd stuff like that. I should reinstall fresh, but I don’t want the hassle right now. My games and other apps work fine.

My only suggestion is to try forcing it to use the main GPU with an environment variable like DRI_PRIME. I don’t know what it is for Nvidia though.

First: you’ve done good, raising a kid that asks for your permission first.

Second: realize that this comes from peer pressure, them wanting a space away from parental supervision. If you truly want to make your kids savvy about the Internet, you need to assume they will eventually encounter seedy places, run into assholes, and be exposed to things like bullying.

Have a conversation: you will encounter these things. Your friends may be into them. But they can have bad effects and here is how you avoid it and how to deal if it happens to you. Talk about keeping private information private.

Be open and non-judgemental. You want them to feel safe coming to you for advice.

Be truthful and stay credible. Keep up with what’s out there, but don’t just buy into the latest Tiktok scare.

Talk to your kids about stuff they found that was cool or scary.

Embarrass them by using memes incorrectly.

Setting up a mastodon instance may be cool at first, but their friends are going to think it’s lame with the supervision. You could still do it for a number of other reasons, but it won’t prepare them for the ugly Internet.

Source: me, a parent.