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If RMS thinks that dumb jokes in documentation are worth having, I say we wholeheartedly embrace it. For example: * GNU/Hurd - almost as traumatic as childbirth. or * childbirth - …

Only building what is needed is only part of avoiding writing code. I'd say that during the first half of my career, I was completely ignorant of just how powerful shell scripting …

The last time I used Pine was in the early 2000s. I had gone on vacation and during that time some computer virus caused mass emails over the course of a few days (can't remember a…

The thing that gets me most of all with the SBCs is that I need to go out and buy another power supply. I know - they aren't really that expensive, but I just don't want to do it. …

Where I live, there are gifted schools for kids that speak Polish, Spanish and Russian. Their only goal for English is to make sure the child is proficient by the 6th grade. The ki…

Serious trouble like jail, hundreds of thousands in fines against you personally, being labeled a rogue employee and treated as the whipping boy, paying for your own defense out of…

Well, what about adding a new signal (SIGXMEM) with a default action of ignore? If the system is running low on memory it can send this to some or all processes and wait for a litt…

What does State Farm have to do with Chicago? The HQ is 150 miles away. And how does an insurance company lose money absent a massive act of God? By being bad at math, that's how. …

> Eventually somethings gotta give and I am assuming it will be much higher state and property taxes Well since y'all refuse to consolidate governmental units, it will be higher pr…

Oak Park is very urban and not at all a typical suburb, though the property taxes are astronomical! You already know that though...

I stay in Chicago because I have a very high quality of life here. Higher than I could get in many other places. Every single person that I work with that complains about taxes and…

> The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. This really isn't as crazy as it may sound. When my spouse was working in Big…

> Does anyone know why they don't do this? Or know of examples where they do do this? Just about any capital-intensive industry cooperates. Your computer is made by any one of a fe…