alrs

It's exponential back-off. It's three months the first burnout, six months the second, one year for the third.

If you doubt that Abu Ghraib happened, I dunno what to tell you.

I'm deeply not getting it. Why would I want "answers" instead of "sources?"

Or: "People have better things to do than social media when they aren't cracked-out on algo-driven hysteria."

This could use a (2017).

Back when you could deploy Python with apache and mod_wsgi straight out of your distribution's package directory. Ruby meant mongrel or fcgi, usually hand-built off in /usr/local, usually leaking memory, usually coughing up core dumps on the regular. Ruby libraries that linked to C libraries usually depended on bleeding-edge versions that were on developer Macbooks, but not the versions that were packaged in Debian or Redhat.

Ruby was the prettier and more consistent language that was slow, prone to weird regressions, and a huge pain-in-the-ass to put into production compared to Python.

Ruby metaprogramming made for some write-once-read-never codebases.

"First?" Cadillac and Lincoln had some good years up until the '80s.

I'm That Guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Address_Redundancy_Prot...

As an occasional gitea contributor: irc > matrix

Staying entirely in the '80s, early rap-rock would be the Clash, Time Zone and Tom Tom Club. Mid period would be RUN-DMC/Aerosmith and the Beastie Boys. Later would be Age of Chance, Pop Will Eat Itself, and World Domination Enterprises. You could probably give Big Audio Dynamite an honorable mention.

You may think that.

What dicks. I'm not looking forward to playing tech support for all the non-technical people I convinced to use Signal. Thanks for confirming everyone's suspicions about my weird-nerd chat client.

Gorba, the Chief.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNoBstt8uYM

So great to look at a thread from 2004 and see Josiah Carlson, one of my favorite guys ever.

Are there bike shops paying more than $25/hr yet?

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/classifieds/retail-positions...

3 1/4 floppies never were. The popular standard went from 5 1/4 to 3.5.

I've attempting gaming with a Trackpoint, which I found to be the fastest path to RSI ever encountered.

"Modern." What about this was impossible in 1996? 1986? 1976?

I think you're confusing "smart" for "upper middle class people with gleaming straight teeth."

I still dig the fediverse. https://lsngl.us/@alrs

Neat. col -bx leaves more artifacts lying around, but it does get the job done.

For tools that don't honor NO_COLOR, I have a filter called nofun, which gets rid of color and animations.

https://github.com/alrs/nofun

I've had years-old patches land, if it's any consolation.

"Arch on my laptop" != "Arch on 2000 production systems."

If you're running Debian Stable or RHEL, updates aren't buggy hell. If you're running Arch, Gentoo, or Alpine: of course updates are buggy hell, that's what you signed up for.

I still sync; sync; sync.

This assumes that US military has no need for servers, desktops, or mobile devices.