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by caboteria 3y ago
Yet another example of why Apache needs to take OpenOffice behind the barn.
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by caboteria 3y ago
It's rare that a domain name gives me a chuckle but this one did.
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by caboteria 3y ago
> At about 06:30 UTC the following morning, the DDoS escalated and broadened its targets to include other parts of our PHL subnet. In response, our colocation provider null routed our subnet once again. This subnet has been unreachable e
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by caboteria 3y ago
That, mixed with "there's a sucker born every minute".
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by caboteria 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by caboteria 3y ago
Yup! https://github.com/daeuniverse/dae/issues/374
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by caboteria 3y ago
We've had a couple of big fires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Boston_Fire Somehow they didn't result in exchanging grids for winding streets. The back bay, though, is newer than other parts of the city
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by caboteria 3y ago
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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by caboteria 3y ago
> The product is MIT licensed up until the commit that introduced the rugpull<strike>BUSL license</strike>. Fixed it for ya.
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by caboteria 3y ago
The Forbes article is better than the BI blogspam: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesunder30team/2023/11/28/ha...
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by caboteria 3y ago
At the same time, there's no logic that says that a good thing should cost money. A walk in the woods is good for you, should we charge for that?
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by caboteria 3y ago
Speaking of cute status codes: https://http.dog/418
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by caboteria 3y ago
> It's like he's visiting from another planet or something. He's visiting from planet Adderall. If you have $26 in your pocket then you're a tweaker but make it $26B and you're an eccentric genius.
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by caboteria 3y ago
In Boston you speed up so you don't get stuck at the imminent red light.
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by caboteria 3y ago
I can't help but contrast this to the Kubernetes project where stalebots close issues after 90 days of inactivity.
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by caboteria 3y ago
> OpenOffice still clings to life, if barely It's probably pining for the fjords.
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by caboteria 3y ago
Hopefully we'll be able to sign up and have them send us one for free so we can use it for things other than monitoring our local polling place.
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by caboteria 3y ago
I've recently noticed a new market which Debian is dominating: "official" Docker container images. If you "docker run golang" or "docker run ruby" or "docker run python" (or many of the images ta
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by caboteria 3y ago
Their focus on high-school looks like a thinly-veiled strategy for weeding out anyone who is old enough that they no longer remember the details of their high school education.
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by caboteria 3y ago
So-called "Mother Theresa" should not be used as an example of extreme good. She's more accurately described as an example of extremely good PR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa
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by caboteria 3y ago
> Meet Jinja templates, which make our life much easier. Jinja allows us to use loops, include files (navigation bar, footer, etc.) and much more. > no description of what Jinja - I for one don't know what either of those are, so
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by caboteria 3y ago
> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Sorry, this false dichotomy is one of my pet peeves. It should read "Never attribute to something that which is adequately explained by something else.&quo
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by caboteria 3y ago
The more WASP-y an event is, the more likely it's an excuse to get smashed. For example: Princeton reunions, the Head of the Charles Regatta, country club member/guest tournaments, any polo match ever.
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by caboteria 3y ago
My rescue pup does. He lost his mother when he was a few weeks old and was bottle-fed from that point on. Now he suckles on a blanket while kneading it as he falls asleep. Just by coincidence there's a thunderstorm outside right now an
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by caboteria 3y ago
When I was 10 or 11 years old I won a mai-tai cocktail in a paper airplane contest at Club Med. I used the helicopter from this book!
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by caboteria 3y ago
httpbin is also abandoned - there hasn't been a commit in 5 years despite 50 PR's in the queue.
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by caboteria 4y ago
My boss years ago had to fire an employee when a background check indicated that they were an IRA member. He fired the guy, got in a cab to the airport, and got the next plane out of Ireland back to the US.
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by caboteria 4y ago
I built myself a small special-purpose keyboard with two parts: the main part is a 5-key board to control music players: play/pause, volume control, next/previous. The second (and more fun) part is a big blue arcade button that lo
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by caboteria 4y ago
We've gone from incandescent bulbs that were shit because a cartel[1] said so, to LED bulbs that are shit because we demand that they be cheaper than they can reasonably be. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebu
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by caboteria 4y ago
As anyone who was living in Rhode Island around 1990 can tell you, credit unions are no more or less safe than banks. It's more about ensuring proper oversight in either case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Is

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