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Do not make the mistake of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.
by quelsolaar 6mo ago
Do not make the mistake of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.
- razingeden 6mo agolawnmower don’t give a fuuuuuck
- bombcar 6mo agoThe lawnmower does not have feedback, it does not stop just because it encounters human flesh.
- keeganpoppen 6mo agooh my god… we thought anthropomorphizing “the computer”, was the problem, when it was anthropomorphizing the principals all along… (yes, i know that is the joke you made, but it was so incredibly appropos that i felt the need to comment to register my amusement / sadness / ¿)
- doublerabbit 6mo ago[flagged]
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- bcantrill 6mo agoI do take a perverse kind of pride that this can now be said without any explicit reference -- and everyone knows you're talking about the lawnmower.
- secstate 6mo agoOutside of 90s television, this might be the most universal reference I have in my life.
- Verdex 6mo agoWhenever the lawnmower thing comes up, I try to also mention dtrace. As far as things to be remembered for, they make some strange bedfellows... although it's better than anything I've managed so I guess congrats.
- mwcampbell 6mo agoDTrace was absolutely a product of pre-Oracle Sun, not Oracle.
- Verdex 6mo agoHey friend, check the user name of the person I'm responding to (and perhaps check out the people responsible for dtrace and larry ellison lawnmower comparisons). I might appear more coherent afterwards.
- mwcampbell 6mo agoYeah, I see what you mean now. Sorry.
- charcircuit 6mo agoIt's not like Sun wasn't also lawyer heavy.
- oblio 6mo agoHey, at least it's better than your other one. https://landley.net/history/mirror/linux/kissedagirl.html https://landley.net/history/mirror/linux/kissedagirl.html
- bombcar 6mo agoI forgot how much I hated the mixture of top and bottom quoting
- bcantrill 6mo agoFor whatever it's worth (perhaps not much?), I was actually asked about this three-decade-old post (!) recently on the Peterman Pod[0], which allowed for a slightly more nuanced discussion. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhSL-5GtmQM&t=3757s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhSL-5GtmQM&t=3757s
- gravypod 6mo agoI really can't think of a better way to respond to this situation. It is clear to me that over the next decade the amount of people who will have been hot-headed kids on the internet who grow up to fully-fledged adults who have said they no longer agree with things in ways that are not kind is going to be a lot higher. I've no doubt said things that I no longer agreed with that made sense in the context of when they were posted. Thank you for being a good role model and setting the example that saying "that was bad, here is the context, but I don't like that I said that."
- smarks 6mo agoOh! This is a great explanation, thanks. I remember your original exchange (and I found it baffling and uncharacteristic), and I remember the William Shatner SNL Trek convention sketch, but I never made the connection between them.
- oblio 6mo agoYeah, I know, I think you were 25 or something back then :-)
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- chrismorgan 6mo agoI’m currently moving my personal VPS to Oracle Cloud (for a couple of reasons). The new machine’s host name is lawnmower. I have never been so decisive and satisfied in naming a computer.
- ZeWaka 6mo agofresh spring grass erupting fast the distant engine purr comes ouch goes the lawnmower
- 0______0 6mo agoBeautiful. How did you come up with that? It's strangely captivating.
- ZeWaka 6mo agoJust a normal haiku pattern and waiting for tests to finish, 5-7-5. Could be 'wrong' since erupting is "technically" 3 syllables - but I think it sounds better said fast. Becomes a 7-7-5 that way. Same issue with 'lawnmower.'