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Now that I'm an adult I no longer want to do the cool shit I couldn't do as a kid.

Did you know IBM invented the car?

They also invented the cdr.

man ne555

Is "full stack" what they call a switch in the web dev world?

No I don't mean the network kind.

Everyone who prefers System V to BSD is a cop.

Socialism is a nice idea on paper but can't work in reality because of human nature.

Shit, did I say human nature? I meant US military.

Want to make your local IT phone support employee's day? Learn NATO phonetic alphabet and use them.

Let's define "Mail User agent" as a program you can use to read email.

If we accept this definition, Outlook is often not a Mail User Agent.

Bryan Cantrill is like my capitalist gen X spirit animal.

I've also entertained the thought of eating my own lipoma.

Islamophobes have a weird tendency to insist on archaic spellings/transliterations like "moslem" and "Mahomet".

Is that because elderly people used to those spellings are overrepresented in bigots or it it just a petty potshot along the lines of "you're not even worth transliterating according to contemporary convention".

On the roof of a taxi at night
Glows a lonely beckoning light
The cabin of the asphalt steamboat
Calls to me and my worn-out raincoat

(Freely translating Hande)

TIL red seatbelts are a thing.

OH: "I think that coat's a little over the top." "Most coats go over the top."

Imagine a full datacenter rack cabinet. Mostly the machines have been mounted neatly on rails with cable management arms and velcro, systematically placing the IEC power leads on alternating sides.

The top 3U or so of the rack is a clusterfuck of fibers, UTP, and mains cables hanging out in a kinky ball of loops.

Now think, my dear disciples, in which part of the rack are you going to be replacing a switch today?

Name one good Microsoft product. I double dog dare you.

The number of tolerable ones asymptotically approaches 0 over time and it's gotten to the point I can't think of a single one right now.