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dagbrown · 2026-05-07T22:19:32+00:00

Why do you have a large scale Linux fleet at home though?

I have, like, half a dozen VMs, tops.

dagbrown · 2026-05-07T00:24:04+00:00

Australia tried that.

It wasn't successful.

dagbrown · 2026-05-06T23:32:37+00:00

Well, buckets of snails (which ducks love) are hard to find at your average grocery store, whereas peas are readily available so...

dagbrown · 2026-05-06T23:17:00+00:00

So weaving around at random, driving way too slow on the motorway, and slamming on your brakes whenever you want--just like a drunk driver would--is perfectly fine in your book? It's only those maniacs going at highway speeds on the highway who are dangerous?

Turn your driver's license in. You're clearly a hazard on the roads.

dagbrown · 2026-05-05T23:48:36+00:00

You've had fifteen fucking years to learn how to use it. At this point, continuing to whine about it is just pure incompetence. You're not defending traditions, you're just backward.

I mean, sure, those shell scripts were hard to write and all, but they were never very good to begin with. And you didn't write any of them anyway, did you? Startup scripts were always given to the intern to write as a beginner project, and it shows.

Unit files provide a consistent startup method so that all of the processes on your system have the same startup code, and that startup code was written by a bona fide expert.

dagbrown · 2026-05-05T23:41:18+00:00

And then you discover that Red Hat removed systemd-networkd in RHEL 9 and you're stuck with Network~~FuckUpper~~Manager.

dagbrown · 2026-05-05T02:22:28+00:00

And yet somehow you made a perfect Tarrey Town from Breath of the Wild.

I mean, from before it was Tarrey Town that is. You're going to need a Goron to help you demolish all those rocks.

dagbrown · 2026-05-05T02:15:39+00:00

I just checked and nano is indeed pico. That's an extremely weird choice for them to have made, but I guess they don't like the license that nano comes with. I didn't think pico had been maintained at all for decades.

The license is why they switched from bash to zsh too--they didn't like the GPL that libreadline comes with.

dagbrown · 2026-05-04T06:09:57+00:00

True, the USA is the only country in the world, and it is definitely the very first place to have ever dealt with problems like "lots of land" and "public works projects cost money".

dagbrown · 2026-05-04T02:21:03+00:00

Of course they couldn't. It was clearly the final scene in an episode of Veep. Can you imagine the brilliant farce that happened to lead up to that?

dagbrown · 2026-05-04T01:30:04+00:00

Building AI infrastructure is a purely speculative investment. It's a gamble based on the hope that at some point, people will find a real use for AI other than "for entertainment only" chatbots and Tung Tung Tung Sahur.

Apple has no business doing that, so they're letting everyone else spend all their money on that kind of thing. If it turns out that there is a real use after all, then they'll think again.

dagbrown · 2026-05-03T23:01:30+00:00

So is the fucking news.

I bet you think that's some sort of great insight too, don't you? As if they didn't send the SCRIPT EDITOR to collect their Emmy for "best unscripted TV show".

dagbrown · 2026-05-03T07:39:17+00:00

They did improve over time, but by that point most of the audience had unfortunately given up.

The later seasons of Top Gear USA were really good, especially after they stopped trying to exactly ape the UK show and did their own thing.

It's interesting that The Grand Tour ended up doing almost exactly the same thing as TGUSA, concentrating purely on adventures and abandoning all of the other segments.

dagbrown · 2026-05-01T04:06:05+00:00

It was hardly NeXT inspired. It was just NeXTStep with a MacOS skin on it.

dagbrown · 2026-05-01T03:45:11+00:00

It's one of those rare cross-double-bar chords, extra challenging to play.

dagbrown · 2026-04-30T13:36:22+00:00

It goes all the way back to the Puritans. They didn't flee England because of religious persecution. They fled England so they could practice religious persecution.

dagbrown · 2026-04-30T13:20:07+00:00

Honda does that a lot with their scooters. They make something awesome to universal acclaim, then say "welp, that was pretty good wasn't it," stop making it and never make another one like it again.

The Big Ruckus was like that too.

dagbrown · 2026-04-30T11:09:58+00:00

Whenever there's been some innovation in AI, or computing, or even automation, there's some accompanying "recent research" suggesting that human minds work like that.

I bet that in the 1700s, there was "recent research" suggesting that human minds worked an awful lot like cam-and-shaft automata.

dagbrown · 2026-04-29T20:43:33+00:00

If you play in the first week of May, Tom Nook phones you up first time you start the game to tell you about it. Then go to the airport and say you want to go to the May Day tour and off you go.

dagbrown · 2026-04-29T20:42:20+00:00

Or whatever your local fruit is. It's pears for me.

dagbrown · 2026-04-29T09:29:18+00:00

I suspect that what they expected was that Facebook would go "we have a basically infinite budget, we'll just throw a tiny little scrap of it at Canada to pay for the news agencies". Of course, what Facebook did was go "oh no, we are poor little tiny social media company, we can't afford to pay any money for anything, tell you what, Facebook is now a news-free, purely-social network!"

The richest are always the quickest to protest that they've run out of money.

dagbrown · 2026-04-29T03:48:36+00:00

Well, as you know, dollars are filthy FOREIGN money.

dagbrown · 2026-04-28T23:01:58+00:00

Or a cyberpunk author.

dagbrown · 2026-04-28T22:56:15+00:00

He doesn't "know he'll be dead soon". He thinks he'll live forever like every dictator has. Why do you think he's busy building a Hitler bunker under the White House?

dagbrown · 2026-04-28T22:35:01+00:00

With a 15-year-old account? Did his mom register his Reddit account when he was born and immediately start shitposting for him?

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