vogelke

...management is making strategic decisions after snorting a long line of social-media-psychosis and TED talks.

+1. Straight into my quotes file.

I love this. Straight into my quotes file.

Matt Stoller has written some excellent articles about Ticketmaster's monopoly crap.

Probably. As an American, I have to agree with you -- it's been the case for many years (WAY before Trump) that within 50 miles of our border, your rights go to wherever last year's snow went.

It's too bad so few people can say "My country, if right to be supported, if wrong to be corrected."

I have a Dell 2208 monitor with 4 USB-2 ports. If I bought three of these switches, would I be able to share keyboard/mouse/monitor between two machines? My monitor does not have HDMI, just VGA.

Best part about open source -- Mercurial is still around, I use it for my home servers, and it's being maintained. I can use git, but Mercurial's workflow just makes more sense to me.

The "Demon Seed" book was creepier (and a lot more pervy) than the movie.

I hope you're kidding. I've seen lots of 'Net people claim to be experts, and I wouldn't trust most of them to feed my cat.

https://lwn.net/Articles/343828/ describes Alan Cox trying to fix the TTY layer, being trashed by Linus, and removing himself from the maintainer page.

Exactly. Legal drugs get weaker because you can exchange information about minimum required dosages (saving money) without risking arrest.

Illegal drugs get stronger for exactly the reason you stated in your first paragraph.

It's a one lane road and "over taking" is not possible.

Best poop-related comment I've seen.

Your core skills are fine. Unfortunately, appreciation for those skills has already been blasted into orbit by the AI-BS bubble.

This tech has made it easier for second-handers to pass off inadequate work as the equal of your work. They're too lazy to exert the effort to read/think/write, and being second-handers, they're fine with the APPEARANCE of reading, thinking, and writing.

This has been going on for millenia, and the only fix I've seen is to call it out every time it rears its head.

Thank you for this article. If I want to be told when to upgrade, I know where to shop, i.e. Bill's Bloatware in Redmond.

Great example of a commonplace book. Jillian Hess has written extensively about this -- her books are well-researched and organized.

I've read at least 8 articles this week about LLMs having massive hallucinations/brain-farts when writing testbeds for code. Unfortunately, the author didn't see the problems until he tried adding a test; then he had a huge WTF moment.

The fact that the LLM you mention gave good answers is probably more a reflection of YOUR documentation than any particular "brilliance" on the LLM's part.

If I treated reading like a chore, it would start to feel like a chore.

I'm not being graded. If I start a book and I don't care about the subject or the characters after 50-100 pages or so, it goes in my Goodwill pile. The only decent exception to that for me is Stieg Larsson -- his "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" books take their time getting started without being boring.

I don't think I've ever seen a school essay back then that wasn't obviously written by a parent.

That's when you discuss the essay with the kid, and if he can't understand something that presumably he wrote, immediate consequences. First time == suspension, second time == removal from that class.

I'd recommend the book "Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think". Published by O'Reilly, ISBN-10 ‏ : 0596510047

millions of victims from false advertising of Big Tobacco

People have known that smoking is bad for your health for around 400 years. You can't fix stupid, not even by making advertising illegal.

I use it for two things:

* saving webpages as text with the links nicely organized at the bottom, and

* calling it from mutt (MUA) to display HTML parts of mail messages.

It works great and it's consistent.

I keep my history in a format showing the current working directory next to each command. If you're interested, have a look at

https://bezoar.org/src/dotfiles/README.htm#command-history

Sounds like "Landru" in ST:TOS.

Sounds a lot like working with the US Air Force, unfortunately.

"Fatherland" by Robert Harris, 1992. Alternative history detective novel set in a universe in which Nazi Germany won World War II.

"Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig. I re-read this every 4-5 years just to enjoy the discussions about quality and why it matters.

My main reasons:

- because I can, and

- because I can't pick my family.

Maybe knowing when a particular OS went off the rails or did something deeply stupid will come in handy one day when you're writing an app to scratch an itch. Way better to avoid a mistake someone else already made.

r/commandline r/sysadmin r/datacurator r/datahoarder

Surprisingly good signal-to-noise ratios for all of them.

I don't care much about the flight, just about getting over the jetlag at the destination.

What worked for me: power through the first day on the ground. Go to sleep when the clock says you should, NOT when your body does -- you'll get tired at some weird time, but don't nap. Run around, do caffeine, or whatever, but just power through it.

I got over jetlag from USA/Australia in about 30 hours this way.

Location: Beavercreek, OH

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: 33 years experience as Unix/Linux system administrator -- Solaris up thru 11, RHEL/Centos Linux, FreeBSD v6-11, sh/ksh scripting, lots of Perl experience (munging, ETL, web), some Postgres experience but very average SQL skills, comfortable building from source.

Resume/CV: https://bezoar.org/about/resume.pdf

Email: vogelke@pobox.com

Not Cliff, but I remember BLISS from early '80s Air Force work. It's the only thing I know that could beat compiled Fortran for things like signal processing. That code absolutely flew.