• umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    can this map be… simulated?

    perhaps put into a computer program with simulated inputs from a virtual environment?

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            3 days ago

            I’ve been using Linux for longer than I’ve been an adult, I’ve worked in the field for around fifteen years, and TIL what .so means. Thanks!

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              We’re probably pretty similar. I haven’t been a Linux user as long as I’ve been an adult (close), but if you include BSDs, then I have, since I dabbled w/ FreeBSD as a kid.

              I’m a SW engineer and I like compiled languages, so linking in C libraries comes w/ the territory. If it wasn’t for that, I would probably just call them DLLs (dynamic-link library, FWIW), since they do the same thing at the end of the day.

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                I was a sysadmin, now I’m nominally devops. I haven’t done real development for probably 21 years, so I didn’t interact with SO’s or DLL’s much. (I actually did know what DLL means, but I have no clue why. Thanks though!)

                I didn’t use pure BSD until I was eighteen - I think I used Macs a time or two before then. In fact, I’m pretty sure the first time I used BSD was installing it on an iMac I bought off of Craigslist and I did so to experiment with its firewall functionality. What did you do with it as a kid?

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                  Honestly, not much. I took a programming class at the local community college during high school, and an older gentlemen gave me an install disk. So I installed it on an old PC and tinkered a bit, but it didn’t have internet so I only had the base install.

                  I switched to Ubuntu my freshmen year at college because windows broke on my rented computer and I didn’t want to deal with IT. I tried switching to FreeBSD on my laptop a couple years later, but it wouldn’t sleep properly, so I went back to Linux (Arch at this point). I still used FreeBSD on my toy servers and NAS, which ended a few years later when I switched everything to openSUSE (Leap on server/NAS first, then Tumbleweed later on my desktop and laptop).

                  That said, my kids haven’t really used Windows, they either use my computers running Tumbleweed or ChromeOS at school.

                  I still really like FreeBSD, but I don’t use it because I had issues getting Docker to work (need for self-hosted LibreOffice Online), and I prefer everything to be same family, and having openSUSE work everywhere is nice. It still holds a place in heart though, so I make sure my personal projects work properly on FreeBSD. Who knows, maybe I’ll use it if I ever replace my router with a DIY setup (currently use Mikrotik).

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                    You sound like someone with whom I’d get along well. My Linux origin story isn’t terribly dissimilar to your BSD one; I hosted a file server on a Windows server when I went to college. I met another, somewhat older as I went to college early, nerd there and he recommended replacing my Windows server with Linux. I don’t recall if he gave me the install disk. I think my first Linux system was Red Hat before they became Enterprise and my friend was right - it worked better than a Windows server. I tried to convert all of my systems to Linux at that point, but I still lived with my parents and they paid for AOL for Internet, which (so far as I could tell at the time) had no Linux compatibility. Also, I gamed a lot and back then there was nothing like proton or even (so far as I knew) WINE.

                    I had to look up what Tumbleweed was after reading your post. I haven’t used any form of SUSE for years and years. I use mostly Fedora for my workstations or CentOS/Alma/Rocky for my servers because I was an RHCE for a while (now expired, I think) and was most comfortable in that ecosystem.

                    My kid has never touched Windows AFAIK; the only Windows system in my network is my wife’s work computer (and one VM I setup while experimenting with something, but that’s gone now). The kid has two tablets and a laptop I put Linux on, but they’re too young to really care about anything but YouTube on those systems. I’ll get 'em yet, though!

                    What got you on SUSE?

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        3 days ago

        “That I don’t we can map yet”

        Seems like your brain failed to calculate a few things when trying to write that.

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        interesting. what kind of “calculations”? what do we know about it?

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      4 days ago

      I recall seeing the brain of like an amoeba or something very small with only like 100 neurons or something being simulated.