Basically “does this JSON object contain at least these two properties, and is the value of one particular properties a string of digits followed by the letter ‘Z’”, for example.

I tried and failed to get an LLM to write jq code to do a regex based matcher for finding if one json object was a subset of another.

Gave up and learned it enough to get it going. jq is nutso powerful.

If Trump’s goal isn’t to cede most everything to China, he’s doing a poor job.

A trick you can use there is to form the connection with different intent, e.g. to learn more about the field. Maybe it leads to something and maybe it doesn’t, but at least you learned something.

I didn’t play that one, but I did play the c64 game… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecHVCk_jKdM

Not quite as spectacular. 😅

Yeah, we computer people don’t typically count networking as a forté. But I fear that while before the network was merely important, now it could turn into the only thing that matters.

States rights! Lol

Sucks for today’s juniors, but that gap will bring them back into the fold with higher salaries eventually.

I certainly can’t speak for all educators and grade levels, but in my junior and senior CS courses, I don’t have them memorize anything and they gotta solve problems.

What is that core issue, in your opinion?

This is pretty much the only way to verify knowledge. And it’s kind of what interviewers do when they’re thinking about hiring someone for a job, right? Same goal.

One potential avenue that schools have, especially in college, is to let the students know that. You’re not up against the school; you’re up against the interviewer.

This academic year I’m going to try to set up a thing where we do mock interviews with students, hopefully with real interviewers from real companies. I want to show the students where they’re going, and what they really have to get ready for.

In my dream world, we wouldn’t even have grades or diplomas. After all, when we’re learning things on our own we don’t have those and yet somehow we manage to get the job done. But not having grades comes with its own set of problems in this academic structure we’ve set up.

Hypocrisy is considered a strength. So they’re definitely not against it.

I’ve had no joy getting my Brother printer to share over the network with our macs… It seems like the mac sees it for a moment and then it vanishes. The closest Ive come is having the printer wake up when the Mac sent a job, but it didn’t print anything. Prints fine from Linux USB.

Someday I’ll give it a third attempt.

The service can determine what they accept as a password.

And what password manager you use, I think was the poster’s point.

This is why when Republicans claim to be pro-states rights nobody believes them.

XFCE, mostly.

How much does Firefox development cost? The Mozilla Foundation itself has a dearth of friends even among hackers. But Firefox is worth preserving. Could we get enough paying supporters to continue development?

Sorry to disappoint, but it was not. It was Double-Decker Pizza. Except this was a small local chain of two restaurants, not the one that you find on the internet today.

The pizza place I worked at as a teen had this game and we had the key. So we’d pop it open and add tons of credits and play forever. This phrase is indelibly marked upon my brain.

I’ll have to post it all somewhere sometime. None of my passwords are in there, but some of my account names are.