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Friday, August 4, 2023

[04:49:45] tr [T] <&nitecore> o/

[04:52:25] tr [T] <&nitecore> .bang

[04:52:29] tr [T] <&nitecore> !bang

[14:55:39] tr [T] <+ChanRank> (ChanRank): angel is an idler or unknown...

[16:16:56] tr [S] <lor> ciAO

[16:17:06] tr [S] <lor> list

[16:17:14] tr [S] <lor> 'list

[16:29:23] tr [T] <login> if the software is free, then it relegates softawre to be a labour of love

[16:29:28] tr [T] <login> like parenting

[16:30:24] tr [T] <login> and as you can see in the world, the rate of increase in the aggregate amount of parenting has been going down

[16:35:25] tr [T] <login> Gentoo: yes, but the rate of increase is going down

[16:35:53] tr [T] <login> rate of increase in usable free software, i don't mean things like what i wrote (tcoin), that is just hobbyist software

[16:36:51] tr [T] <login> is the rate of increase in the number of skilled software writers going down?

[16:37:22] tr [T] <login> or is the fertility rate of the parents of future skilled software writers higher than the rest of the population's?

[16:37:55] tr [T] <login> also, skilled software writers need to get paid or have enough paying assets to sustain themselves (food, shelter, clothing)

[16:38:45] tr [T] <login> so the is the aggregate time avaiable to write free software going up faster or is the rate becoming slower?

[16:39:40] tr [T] <login> doing degeneracy? meaning?

[16:39:52] tr [T] <login> i saw an ad for special ops lioness on a bus

[16:40:44] tr [T] <login> Are people more altruistic nowadays?

[16:40:58] tr [T] <login> they'd rather spend time on the various labours of love

[16:41:00] tr [T] <login> than have fancy sushi

[16:42:00] tr [T] <login> if the wealth gap is increasing, doesn't that mean the number of people who can be altruistic is going down?

[16:42:16] tr [T] <login> and the number of those that are being forced to do just about anything to eke out some profit is goign up?

[16:42:48] tr [T] <login> and it's not like the now-wealthier but fewer number of altruists can pump out more free useful code

[16:43:17] tr [T] <login> they have to choose between their various labours of love

[16:43:46] tr [T] <login> children, or free software, or other charity, or saving for a home deposit (i.e., building one's estate)

[16:44:18] tr [T] <login> if they aren't choosing children, then is the overall amount of labour dedicated to love going down, or has it shifted to pets and charity and free software?

[16:44:36] tr [T] <login> but neither can one do all of them with one's time

[16:45:02] tr [T] <login> if i saw the rate of writing useful software per person going up, then the whole point would be moot

[16:45:19] tr [T] <login> and it would be a panacea for replacing all the proprietary stuff with actually usable stuff

[16:45:53] tr [T] <login> does anyone who works on a non-software job write free software in their spare time?

[16:46:23] tr [T] <login> like, a civil engineer writing free software in their spare time only? or a storekeeper doing it?

[16:46:50] tr [T] <login> wish there were a way to learn how to write useful software

[16:47:11] tr [T] <login> can one person alone even write something like libreoffice or unity?

[16:47:30] tr [T] <login> yeah, read but also understand why it was written that way

[16:47:53] tr [T] <login> there are not that many autodidacts who can read code and understand it deeply

[16:48:13] tr [T] <login> it might even be as rare as rediscovering math theorems as a high school student, on your own

[16:48:42] tr [T] <login> i wish i were good enough to make improvements to libreoffice and make it a very capable ms office alternative

[16:48:57] tr [T] <login> you're good, Gentoo

[16:49:15] tr [T] <login> i don't know if i can be, or how long it would take

[16:49:54] tr [T] <login> even very poor countries use cheaply priced or pirated ms office instead of libreoffice

[16:50:13] tr [T] <login> i tried using libreoffice as a full ms office replacement (at least, ms word replacement)

[16:50:41] tr [T] <login> found issues with bullet points and how they're interpreted in .docx files by libreoffice

[16:50:45] tr [T] <login> it's just a different philosophy

[16:51:07] tr [T] <login> also had issues with relearning the libreoffice keyboard shortcut for bullet and numbered bullet points

[16:51:34] tr [T] <login> and multi-layered bullets/headings (like in legal documents or contracts with numbered section and subsections)

[16:52:02] tr [T] <login> i mean, the bullet point is not the same size as the font(typeface?)

[16:52:18] tr [T] <login> but only if it's a docx file that was earlier written in word

[16:52:27] tr [T] <login> native .odt is okay, i think

[16:52:52] tr [T] <login> it's quite similar (but pages is more polished) to the learning curve between Pages (on macOS) and ms office

[16:53:29] tr [T] <login> i wish i were a good-enough programmer (and i do have some 'free' time) to contribute the patch to fix it

[16:53:44] tr [T] <login> after that, if the libreoffice maintainers don't want to accept the pull request, that's on them

[16:53:54] tr [T] <login> i could always just use it myself and be a happier libreoffice user

[16:54:24] tr [T] <login> emacs folks got done dirty

[16:54:56] tr [T] <login> they just look like a cult that failed to subsume the world of software like it was predicted to

[16:55:19] tr [T] <login> but within the world of emacs, it's still good and usable

[16:55:27] tr [T] <login> if one can get used to latex documents

[17:05:44] tr [T] <login> who made Idol Showdown?

[17:44:59] tr [T] <login> is there any truth to any of that mumbo jumbo, ysalamiri?

[17:45:57] tr [T] <login> where is the bios stored?

[17:46:00] tr [T] <login> in the hard disk right?

[17:46:27] tr [T] <login> a ROM that can be updated?

[17:46:43] tr [T] <login> what's the mechanism of storage?

[17:47:37] tr [T] <login> are you sure you're still using bios and not uefi?

[17:48:20] tr [T] <login> is dr dre also a doctor?

[17:48:39] tr [T] <login> so 'beats' actually means beating something off?

[17:51:37] tr [T] <login> you could boot a NUC device and update the bios that way

[17:52:15] tr [T] <login> or go to a shop and have them install their cpu temporarily, for a price - i.e., rent it

[17:53:53] tr [T] <login> frogorg: would you rather have your weekends as extra hours in the evenings but a 7-day workweek?

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