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AlexeyBrin
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- AlexeyBrinIf you want to see the full documentary search for "Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age".
- > Microsoft Office Online works fine on Linux. In fact, it’s superior to native MS Office in terms of stability.
It may work for your case - good. Many companies have custom VBA macros that runs on their Excel sheets to get data or validate it. Try to use a document like this on your online Office and you will understand why most Office users can't easily migrate.
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- (My original comment was about about running a Linux VM inside ChromeOS.)
To answer your questions, it depends. On some Chromebook models you can wipe ChromeOS and install Linux.
- Honest question, if you buy (just a hypothetical, I assume most parents can't afford to buy one) a Chromebook for your kid that will be used in school, do you have to lock it down or can you enable the Linux system (assuming that you want to do that and that your kid is interested in learning to program).
- This is why I said "that I fully own". I said nothing about a school issued Chromebook because I never touched one of these.
- You really can't compare a Chromebook with an iPad. On a Chromebook that I bought and that I fully own I can enable the Linux system and install whatever I want on it (it runs in a VM and it is a full Linux system). The iPad is artificially crippled for programming by Apple.
- Technically any recent Chromebook can run Linux in a VM if enabled from settings. Now, I don't know if most schools forbid this, but since it is running in a VM it is safe to use for sure.
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- > Even if you want to implement a compiler yourself, "Claude, please generate a recursive descent parser for this grammar" is close to working one-shot.
How is this even close to implementing it yourself ??? If Claude gave you the code, by definition, you didn't implemented it yourself - you hired a third party to implement it for you.
- It really depends. Personally I find my 13" MacBook Pro to be good enough for when I'm on the go, but at home I connect it to an external display for programming. (It also depends on how good is your eyesight.)
I would have preferred the 16" MacBook Pro and I will buy a 16" when my current laptop becomes unusable (still going strong for now).
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- I get it through my public library.
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- How many hours per day is Google CEO "enjoying" the pleasures of (vibe) coding ?
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