<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 7:30 PM Michael Paoli <<a href="mailto:Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu">Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> From: Texx <<a href="mailto:texxgadget@gmail.com" target="_blank">texxgadget@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] Update for BALE<br>
> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 18:42:01 -0800<br>
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> You mean executing /usr/bin/vi ?<br>
> (hysterical laughter)<br>
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That's generally not the way to go about updating, e.g. a live database.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I didnt actually know how it worked.</div><div>I presumed (I now know falsely) that it digested a text file and inserted dates it generated on the fly.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> Actually, we also have an offshoot from Berkeley Lug which bills itself as<br>
> a "Python gathering"<br>
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Pi Day ... not "python gathering". Read the (relevant) list posts,<br>
etc.<br>
<a href="https://berkeleylug.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://berkeleylug.com/</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Long before someone figured out how to use up obsoleted GPUs, and sell them as single board controllers, </div><div>the term "Pi day" referred to Python.</div><div><br></div><div>I dont know enough to teach Python, WHY do you THINK Im ASKING for someone to teach it?</div><div>Regarding organizing it, I dont know anyone to teach it, (see above!)</div><div><br></div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div>Yes some people bring projects to meetings, but im seeing very little education going on,</div><div>which is sad, considering that LUGs are SUPPOSED to be educational.</div><div><br></div><div>It seems the Lugs have outlived their original charter.</div><div><br></div><div>SIGH</div><div><br></div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div>It got a plug on the LUG website, so I consider it an advert.</div><div><br></div><div>It seems to be a pretty constant first Sunday thing.</div><div>Seems to have been going rain or shine for 6 months, so I probably DOES deserve Ricks attention.</div><div> </div><div>I dont see a lot of collaboration.</div><div>But if its a collaboration session, believe the term for that is "Hackathon"</div><div><br></div><div>If someone actually did a tutorial, then maybe I could LEARN enough to TEACH a session on it, </div><div>but I have to learn enough before I can teach.</div><div><br></div><div>The problem with the Python meetings, is that they are all about "Hey lookie what I done!" </div><div>but it never teaches me enough to actuially do something on my own besides the trite "Hellow World"</div><div><br></div><div>We probably beat this topic to death, good idea to drop it.</div><div><br></div><div>(Remainder thread omitted for brevity)</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><br>R "Texx" Woodworth<br>Sysadmin, E-Postmaster, IT Molewhacker<br>"Face down, 9 edge 1st, roadkill on the information superdata highway..."<br></div></div>