It's the same in the Philippines. Try finding soap, lotion, or sunscreen that doesn't include whitening agents, which are usually very unhealthy for the skin.
It's very much the case that in the Philippines, lighter skin is viewed as upper class haciendero/mestizo culture (not having to work outdoors, not being a nanny, maid, or "helper"). It's the same in many other Asian cultures. Women who live in Asian countries with a high concentration of plastic surgery "procedures" and treatments (like South Korea, for instance) are often the standards of beauty for other Asian countries even though such procedures/whitening and eye/nose surgeries are out of reach.
Despite my pro-documentation comment above, I think there is a legit criticism that a lot of official documentation is a mess. Take man pages, for instance. I don't think it's a good look for greybeards to say "just go read the man page, kid." Many of those man pages are so out of date. You can't legitimately adopt a position of smug superiority by pointing juniors to outdated docs.
[Disclaimer: I'm a Gen Xer. Insert meme of Grandpa Simpson shouting at clouds.]
I think this is undoubtedly true from my observations. Recently, I got together over drinks with a group of young devs (most around half my age) from another country I was visiting.
One of the things I said, very casually, was, "Hey, don't sleep on good programming books. O'Reilly. Wiley. Addison-Wesley. MIT Press. No Starch Press. Stuff like that."
Well, you should've seen the looks on their faces. It was obvious that advice went over very poorly. "Ha, read books? That's hard. We'd rather just watch a YouTube video about how to make a JS dropdown menu."
So yeah, I get that "showing my age" remark. Used to be the discipline in this industry is that you shouldn't ask a question of a senior before you'd read the documentation. If you had read the documentation, man pages, googled, etc., and still couldn't come up with an answer, then you could legitimately ask for a senior mentor's time. Otherwise, the answer from the greybeards would have been "Get out of my face, kid. Go RTFM."
That system that used to exist is totally broken now. When reading and understanding technical documentation is viewed as "old school", then you know we have a big problem.
In a real tech hub, it's definitely going to be a longer commute. Nashville, for instance, is not a tech hub. Yet it has some of the worst commute times for people who have an office there.
The microline series, antique stores are full of them. Every high school or lower undergrad boomer had one or a similar clone and they show up in antique stores and on ebay all the time. The 80 and 120 are about the same size and sell for about $20 and I don't bother buying them anymore when I see them. The 80 puts the T scale on top and the 120 more usefully puts it in the slider IIRC so you can chain calculations.
Grad students or undergrad STEM students would have something like a 900 series, I have several, very nice. This is a desk rule it will not fit in a pocket. Something like a 600 series is a short pocket model, anodized aluminum, very nice and desirable.
The microline series was definitely made to a price point and unless you find one in unusually good condition or its your first collector rule I would not bother picking it up. They stick very strongly and the cursor cracks after half a century and they are slippery in the hand and warp more than most rule and I don't think they're easy to read. They were cheap to make and cheap to buy.
Slide rules in the 2020s are an efficient market; something that barely works "the walmart solar calculator of its generation" like a microline series sells for around $20 today, a VERY desirable N600 series sells for like a hundred bucks and I think its a bargain at that price.
If you mean most popular as in most desired today not most sold back in the day, that's probably the 600 series or specialty rules like I have a N-16-ES with the electronics engineering scales. The latter sells for about as much as a working HP48 calculator, which is interesting. If you mean popular as in attractive that is surely the Faber-Castell short 83N series, I think that's a 62/83N. I would like one of those LOL. Unleash 1960s German graphics artists on industrial design and tell them to make the coolest looking slide rule possible under 60s industrial design rules, you get the 83N series, very very cool way to spend $300 or so, its the kind of thing you put in a lighted display case to admire.
Wow, thanks. This is an incredible deep dive and I obviously came to the right place for that question. This kind of detailed comment is why I still appreciate HN so much...
My Dad is a retired R&D chemist who worked at the DuPont corporation's Experimental Station. When I was a kid he would bring his old slide rules home from work when he got a new one, and at one point he explained to me how they work but I forgot it all long ago.
I still have the slide rules, so this post was a great rabbit hole to go down. In software there's no need for them but I still find them fascinating as a window into how engineers used to get their work done.
... but in the Real World they work pretty well for the sort of calculations you might need to do in the field (literally, in a field, sometimes) and don't require batteries, are reasonably waterproof, and reasonably robust if dropped.
The all plastic ones are intrinsically safe in a potentially flammable environment, they don't require power, they're an education in how most engineering materials in the real world have surprisingly wide tolerances so they are far more than accurate enough for most work, for people who learn graphically/visually they are the logical next educational step after counting on fingers.
They're pretty useful for teaching amateur people how to implement algorithms. Multiple ways to solve problems, some easier than others, some more efficient than others, with immediate rewards of faster higher accuracy.
> The all plastic ones are intrinsically safe in a potentially flammable environment
Never thought of that, and I used to work in an ATEX environment where calculators powered by watch batteries had to be carefully logged and carried across to a "safe" area inside a special (horribly expensive) Peli case.
There were also all manner of specialty "slide rule" calculators of various kinds for special purposes. I used to have a bunch of them especially from the oil business. Don't know if I still have any at this point.
That's why even though I like the weird and esoteric stickers you see here, I myself prefer the `unixstickers` style I think you're talking about. Debian, Arch, GNU, Python, bash, Ruby, Git, Vim, fork bomb, Tux, DEFCON, 127.0.0.1, &c. These are great for starting conversations, even in cafes. And you end up meeting some interesting people with shared culture.
It is about advertising one's (possible) shared culture. For me, my laptop is part of my professional culture and thus I try to keep it as crisp and professional in appearance as one's resume since its a bit... difficult to laptop lids in certain cases.
For my personal shared culture, that is the sort of thing that can be exposed (or hidden) on a case by case basis. My choice of t-shirt where I can button up or down depending on the context says a lot more about me than the lid of my laptop. Granted, it' one message at a time - but there are things that I've had on t-shirts that I made sure to button up before going into the office and seeing the boss (old school, and I still have it - those were durable shirts - https://www.flickr.com/photos/strihs/8536766235/ ). On the other hand, I wouldn't put https://www.spreadshirt.com/shop/design/let+me+work+on+your+... on my laptop no matter how much I agree with it.
I would be amendable to putting a square of #22b7f2 on my laptop, and that opens up an entire discussion if recognized (I'm not quite ambitious or passionate enough to color the entire laptop that color).
My work computer is spotless. My personal conference (and work appropriate - security wouldn't find anything unprofessional or untoward on it) laptop is the one with some stickers that are technologies that I want to put on there. My personal computer at home is desktop... so no stickers there.
Even crossing company culture borders could be problematic if one is a consultant or sales engineer or professional services... This is one of those "in the wrong environment, something could scupper a deal - and you don't want that to be pinned on you."
You mean the `Include` directive, right? Not "load"...but I guess that's just shorthand for the concept.
So you split your main ~/.ssh/config file into smaller, reusable files stored in a subdirectory like ~/.ssh/config.d/. The main config file then "includes" (loads) these modular files automatically. So for instance, you might have:
~/.ssh/config.d/10-general.conf
~/.ssh/config.d/20-work.conf
~/.ssh/config.d/30-github.conf
Can confirm this works great in teams or on multi-host setups, as it keeps things organized without cluttering a single massive config file and it works across tools like ssh, scp, rsync, etc.
It also makes automation easier. I have a script auto adding vagrant VMs under known names when working on a project with vagrant. And had to go at great lengths to avoid nuking the main config file.
And same for for Emacs: it's much easier to vibe code some changes (don't know ELisp that well). And then when knowledge of the language matures I can look at fixes and at least know what was the idea behind them.
It's very much the case that in the Philippines, lighter skin is viewed as upper class haciendero/mestizo culture (not having to work outdoors, not being a nanny, maid, or "helper"). It's the same in many other Asian cultures. Women who live in Asian countries with a high concentration of plastic surgery "procedures" and treatments (like South Korea, for instance) are often the standards of beauty for other Asian countries even though such procedures/whitening and eye/nose surgeries are out of reach.
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