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Thoughts on Quantum Computing, "Qomputing", Organic Computing, etc.
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I was recently asked on Linkedin for my opinion on Quantum computing, this was my top of head response...
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Standards of Practice: Code Commenting Style Preferences and Recommendations
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Too many programmers in the past 10-15 years increasingly seem to consider code commenting and documentation passe and too time consuming without enough benefit to justify the effort (they are outright _wrong_), but for those that understand the value of good and useful code comments, here are some suggested recommended guidelines...
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Another Round of Adventures in Microsoft Incompetence
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One of the first adventures at PracticingMusician as their shiny new CTO, was migrating them from Godaddy's Microsoft 365 Tenancy to Microsoft's. They had been trying for several months and been getting nowhere, so I rolled up my sleeves, dusted off my MCSE (never expires) from 1998 knowledge and experience, and dug in. Here are some highlights from the adventures that ensued...
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Rough Week! Alienware M18 Blew Up and Burned! Meanwhile Installing Q4OS TDE on Alienware M16
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The first part of this posting covers my primary productivity system, Alienware M18 blowing itself up, in the middle of a remarkably rough week and last few months. The second part provides information on the installation and use of Q4OS (Debian 12 bookworm) with Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) on Dell Alienware M16 R1/0TC7T8 (the latter going surprisingly well).
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Is the Jan.ai executable infected?
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January 9th, 2024, 10:00 am Pacific Time, BitDefender Total Security Alert: @janhq\inference-nitro-extension\dist\bin\win-cpu\nitro.exe is infected with Gen:Variant.Tedy.258323 !
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Time Tracking
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Notes on self time tracking in Debian Linux Q4OS Trinity Desktop
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My preferred development release cycles list of environments
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Many companies can't afford this, so there are many variations, but when I have been fortunate enough to work for organizations (or I had the money myself) to have the ideal resources in place, this it what it looks like for me to ensure 99.999% or better up times each year...
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Remember CTRL-L for File Selector Full Text File Path Feature in Firefox Instead of 28+ Mouse Clicks Every Time
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Using a mouse is 4-10x less efficient than hotkeys and typing. But alas, so many apps force you to use a mouse for repetitive tasks. This had stumped for a while after Firefox removed the full text path for the Select File dialog. Finally I found how to bring that back, CTRL-L!
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If killall by name not working try pkill -f
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In recent years some distros and apps no loger responding to kill -9 <app name> such as killall -9 firefox.
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Increasingly Unmotived, Mercenary, Unethical, and Unaltrustic Global Work Force Culture and the Correlated Poisoning of the Open Source Movement
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There has been a very disturbing increase in a trend over the past 5-10 years in the volunteer, paid, and opensource sectors: decreasing worth ethic, lack of motivation, and increasingly severe mercenary and inconsiderate attitudes and behaviors from workers and developers. This trend pre-dates covid. Of course, correlation does not prove causality, but these are some parallel observations.
