alrs

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by alrs 4y ago
Language conferences are more inspiring than product/project conferences. Gophercon > Kubecon.
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by alrs 4y ago
It's exponential back-off. It's three months the first burnout, six months the second, one year for the third.
63.
by alrs 4y ago
If you doubt that Abu Ghraib happened, I dunno what to tell you.
64.
by alrs 4y ago
I'm deeply not getting it. Why would I want "answers" instead of "sources?"
65.
by alrs 4y ago
Or: "People have better things to do than social media when they aren't cracked-out on algo-driven hysteria."
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by alrs 4y ago
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/moni...
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by alrs 4y ago
https://www.haiku-os.org/
68.
by alrs 4y ago
This could use a (2017).
69.
by alrs 4y ago
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 c
70.
by alrs 4y ago
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.
71.
by alrs 4y ago
"First?" Cadillac and Lincoln had some good years up until the '80s.
72.
by alrs 4y ago
I'm That Guy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Address_Redundancy_Prot...
73.
by alrs 4y ago
As an occasional gitea contributor: irc > matrix
74.
by alrs 4y ago
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 Enter
75.
by alrs 4y ago
You may think that.
76.
by alrs 4y ago
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.
77.
by alrs 4y ago
Gorba, the Chief. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNoBstt8uYM
78.
by alrs 4y ago
So great to look at a thread from 2004 and see Josiah Carlson, one of my favorite guys ever.
79.
by alrs 4y ago
Are there bike shops paying more than $25/hr yet? https://www.bicycleretailer.com/classifieds/retail-positions...
80.
by alrs 4y ago
3 1/4 floppies never were. The popular standard went from 5 1/4 to 3.5.
81.
by alrs 4y ago
I've attempting gaming with a Trackpoint, which I found to be the fastest path to RSI ever encountered.
82.
by alrs 4y ago
"Modern." What about this was impossible in 1996? 1986? 1976?
83.
by alrs 4y ago
I think you're confusing "smart" for "upper middle class people with gleaming straight teeth."
84.
by alrs 5y ago
I still dig the fediverse. https://lsngl.us/@alrs
85.
by alrs 5y ago
Neat. col -bx leaves more artifacts lying around, but it does get the job done.
86.
by alrs 5y ago
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
87.
by alrs 5y ago
I've had years-old patches land, if it's any consolation.
88.
by alrs 5y ago
"Arch on my laptop" != "Arch on 2000 production systems."
89.
by alrs 5y ago
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.
90.
by alrs 5y ago
I still sync; sync; sync.

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