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Why would doing something or taking action be dumbing down? You are bristling with something like anger but it has nothing to do with what I wrote. I'm off to go hiking. There are …

I asked Amazon for help with my account. They couldn't figure out the URL to get me where I needed to go. They said they needed to escalate. The question was definitely not complic…

I routinely used to compile C programs on other compilers to find defects that one or another didn't find. Compiling on Windows vs Linux. You could summarize / minimize it down to …

You watched all that content. Did you take action on it? What did you make or do as a result?

Modern audiences are expected to be glued to twelve different things at once. Producers are being told to adjust to this reality. Watch any movie now and they are all compensating …

I remember traveling 1000km for work. On the radio I heard of trips to where I lived. They were all prizes for some competition. I realized that my home was someone else's destinat…

Now explain this to all the people writing their own curl | bash installers. Just use a package manager! Its really not THAT hard. Pick one. Use it. Automate it.

Blinkenlichtdenkmaschinenberufsverlustverzweiflung.

Why not both? Dilemmas aren't necessary. Not everything is binary.

If there's a schedule to your tiredness then can probably reschedule it. This is a lesson I've discovered to good effect. [Side note: 2-3pm is probably due to food/glucose/insulin …

really? I mean there's this little book company called Amazon who will let you use their interweb computers for a few dollars per hour. They'll sell you coffee as well.

Yes. winget install ICURAIDI0TFU seemed unsuitable for production. winget install 8NDEADBEEF9N offended some. winget install 0%U#I#$#$$## had too much hash and blow for some US sta…

Conceptually its doable on linux and ipv6. Have the listening program sit on that default port of 80. Something involving socat, an any-IP / TCP routing rule, a VPS or other machin…

Better yet: Get Claude Code to automate it.

The backups will then be hyper-optimized from three hours down to 5 minutes using devnull compression technologies. Its super effective!

For me, I feed the local LLM all the regexp/bash one-off scripts. Review everything because rm -rf is only funny at most once, if ever.

While you're contemplating the miracle of Earth, consider how rare wood or chocolate icecream is in the universe as compared to gold or diamonds or similar structures. Life is rare…

HCF - Halt and Catch Fire.

New role unlocked: starving artist! Your parents could afford a house, have kids etc etc at a far younger age but now you are single with no kids and choosing food or rent or power…

It probably has age verification on every packet.

I don't think queues like this are a panacea but they are a good idea. They buy time. That's the whole point. Time to respond. Time for a paper trail. Time to investigate. Time to …