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> God bless you Colin, but reading this, it appears you're the only one in charge of the infrastructure for this service

Hence the toddler.

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I am really confused by the communication thread and am interpreting that the toddler is somehow in charge of running the infrastructure as a joke. Yet I can’t see it as either a joke or serious.

I’m a native English speaker but sometimes I swear I’m losing grasp on communication in the Internet age and am sincerely trying to understand this all.

The joke is that the toddler is for future maintenance, not now.

My toddler runs https://rangerovers.pub and it mostly holds up okay. He's not great at yaml because he can't really read so the significant whitespace is a problem, but he knows how to run the backups and ensure the mail handler isn't choking on all the Russian spammers. We try to limit his screen time though so he's only on for the 15-minute maintenance window. The Aprilscherz frontend for Docker is a big help.

Are you suggesting that those who build enterprises don't have time for kids? Seems plausible, but is the difference in lifestyle so consistently prevalent as to be stereotypical? Elon has 10!

Raising the toddler to have some help running the business.

Not just help: there is now a clear heir to take over if (the gods forbid) cperciva ever succumbs to illness or is defeated in battle.

Might take a while. Tarsnap has never had an employee without a doctorate. She's a very bright girl but I'll be surprised if she gets her doctorate before 2040.

So you're the one in charge of the unix epoch rollover?

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