Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 2/9/25 5:41 AM, D wrote:

  On Sat, 8 Feb 2025, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

On 2/8/25 2:28 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 08/02/2025 18:17, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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My university computer science courses left me quite disillusioned.
Between my second and third years I managed to land a summer job
programming in a small shop in the real world.  For my third year
I arranged my schedule so that I had Thursdays off, and continued
to work at my part-time programming job.  There was no fourth year -
I dropped out and went full-time, and have been programming ever since.
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Yeah. You don't need a degree in hydraulics to fix a kitchen sink drain.

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 I took ONE programming class - FORTRAN -  punch cards -
 and then wormed my way into profitable endeavours.
 Stuck to the medium/small enterprises and thus avoided
 most of the 'Dilbert' horrors. My forte was kinda
 one-off 'scientific'/real-world stuff ... good data-
 loggers and sensing and the software that went with
 them. Liked that a lot - dead low-level soldering of
 transistors on hand-made boards on up. Had to become
 more "IT" towards the end - servers/NAS/net/etc - but
 it wasn't as fun. When new management thought it was
 a great idea to go all M$/cloud, I retired.

 Excellent choice!
 I am very excited, I am working on an opportunity to replace Azure at one customer. At another I managed to get them to release the grip of 20% of their Azure environment. I hope to be able to get the remaining 80% this year.
 Instead of that crap, it will be very beautiful, linux and openstack based instead. Oh, and the customer pays less as well, and is protected against crypto miners by actually having a hardware limit on how much resources can be used.

   Anything Azure can do, Linux can do better - and cheaper.
   But, obviously, there's not gonna be endless slick TV
   ads and visiting salesmen there to convince the bosses
   to go the Linux path ....

 Old sage Steve Ciarcia once said his favorite
 programming languages was "solder" ... I'm kinda
 in agreement  :-)
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