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Complete wiring map of an adult fruit fly brain (www.nih.gov)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

There’s alot of “calculations” done internally in a neuron that we cant map yet

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fucking DLLs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shared objects on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The story there is fairly simple. Basically:

  1. Ubuntu - got an install disk on campus or from a friend, don't recall; my sound and wifi broke when upgrading major releases, so:
  2. Fedora - it's what my university used in the CS labs, so I figured I'd try it out; release upgrades took forever (>1 hr), so:
  3. Arch - coworker at my internship recommended I try it out, so I gave it a shot and loved it; stayed there for about 5 years
  4. openSUSE Leap - FreeBSD didn't support Docker properly and I didn't trust Arch on a server, so I went looking; holy grail was something stable for servers and rolling for desktop, and Debian Testing (we used Debian stable at work) wasn't quite new enough and Sid scared me, so I tried out Leap on a VPS; Leap worked out well and I actually liked Yast, so I figured I'd try out Leap on my laptop; I liked it, but decided I wanted fresher packages, so:
  5. Tumbleweed - I upgraded to Tumbleweed and didn't have issues for over a year (broke less than Arch), so I converted my desktop Arch install to Tumbleweed, and I've been happy for >5 years now (longest I've been on any distro, I think)

I wanted the same system on my desktop and server, and I really like rolling releases on my desktop. openSUSE was pretty much the only one that actually offered both. They were ballsy enough to officially support btrfs in production, so I figured switching my NAS over to it wouldn't be a terrible idea, especially since I only needed RAID mirror so the write hole on raid 5/6 wouldn't be an issue. The first time an update went south on my desktop (Nvidia, go figure), snapper rollback saved me a bunch of time, and that's what sold me on it. I since replaced my GPU w/ AMD and I haven't had a single issue w/ updates since, whereas on Arch I'd have 3-4 manual interventions/year unrelated to Nvidia.

And yeah, my kids haven't used my computers for anything other than Steam, YouTube, and some random web games. But they're technically on Linux and have successfully navigated both GNOME (used for a bit before KDE had proper Wayland support) and KDE, so they're more seasoned than some new Linux users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Awesome answer. Thank you for taking the time. I've enjoyed getting to know this part of your story.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, any time! It sounds like we had a relatively similar entry into *nix. Have a fantastic day. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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