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This is one reason we don't use cloud-based source code hosting. All it takes is one idiot fork or an accident and wham, code everywhere.

Thinkpad love there as well. His "custom" computer appears to be an X220 tablet in an enclosure.

Problem is we kitted out two 42U racks in two DCs with HP and EMC kit on VMware and got four humans for five years for less than the comparable quote from IBM. And we've tested rep…

I wish I had that much confidence. Back in the late 1990s I was involved in provisioning a large Sun e15k. Not indestructable but nearly. It broke. You know what happened? The fact…

Spending money? Yep.

That sounds like a whole lot of eggs in one very expensive basket. Plus we can get that density with standard kit I reckon.

Not really. I have centos boxes that have been up for over 3 years.

There's nothing wrong with dynamic allocation in a kernel. It is for example better than having fixed size process tables and all the crap that comes with that. "holy crap I've got…

(if you can remember how to use it each time)

True. We use composition to attach things to an object rather than develop a deep taxonomy through inheritance.

I've been open to it. I went on a journey of SICP, Common Lisp, Haskell and F# over three years. I went back to my OO roots and c#/c++ and carried on mostly as I did before. Why? S…

Sold.

I'd happily help foot the bill. So how much is that 1000 mile journey going to cost? 1000/44.9 4.456 1.119= where's my calculator?

We did it in the UK. Its fine. Apart from some things like miles and gallons which would require a massive synchronised change that is. I'd also like it if we drove on the RHS here…

Yes couldn't agree more with that. Also dates in numeric order I.e. yyyy/mm/dd you know like all the other numbers we deal with not dd/mm/yyyy or the crazy mm/dd/yy.

Good cars. Too wet here in the UK for something to last that long. My 2006 Fiat is on its way out already...

Wait until Teslas become cheaper. Until then, buy a Lada Niva. No one will want to steal it and it doesn't have anything complicated in it that can be hacked.

Money is good though so that's some consolation :) Salesforce is the root of all evil. Once you're in the ecosystem, you're stuffed. You know it's bad when the entire business team…

Exactly. I just want to keep a couple of processes running without having to learn the DJB ecosystem. I also want them portable if we shift off CentOS to Ubuntu in the future or so…

I have found that systemd whilst large is actually spot on for managing services particularly from say ansible. Just drop a service file and the binary on disk and start the servic…

Yes but not on recommendation. In fact the majority of what I do these days is legislative compliance and bringing teams and applications back onshore that the companies have fucke…

Yes we should forget it. They worked out it's easier to get at our data out and on home territory (cloud, telemetry) than actually have to break into your kit.

I feel your pain. This is my life.

A BT engineer came to my house, attempted to fix something and told me that they didn't have the parts (a socket faceplate c'mon that's just silly for a telecoms engineer. I walked…

I don't and never have done for personal use. I literally have an IMAP box and nothing else.