Viewing profile — podunkPDX

I'd say your sense is not wrong: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/355/the-giant-pool-of-money

> I'm weird enough to have a keyboard shortcut to type it on my phone) I'm not the only one‽

My best mentors in the tech field (software QA, sysadmin) have almost all been women.

My strategy of dumping various notes in a semicoherently-named directory tree and then grepping through them makes me feel like a caveman, but it works for me. I feel that tools li…

A few years back I discovered that the Ethiopian run minimart up the street sells unroasted coffee beans, $6/lb. I bought a pound and followed the proprietor’s advice, roasting sma…

> You won’t be writing a 3D FPS game engine in Python While Eve Online isn’t an FPS, it is an MMORPG written in stackless Python, and seems to be doing OK.

These AI tools are also not good at answering PagerDuty to fix a production problem that is a result of the code they imagined.

Uh… no? I replicate my community where I find it. Some of it is at a brunch spot I go to regularly. Some of it is a bar that I frequent. Some of it is in annual activities with my …

PHP: an attack surface with a side effect of hosting blogs.

The McDonalds in Rome near Termini had an amazing desert bar!

I have! BIND 9.11.x, as pairs of caching recursive resolvers advertised over BGP. We have a pair in every data center (12 dcs at last count) Each with one of two IPs (anycasting). …

They also stream on their PBS app, and if you donate to your local affiliate you can unlock access to most (all?) of their content. https://www.pbs.org/explore/passport/

Apparently those businesses have positions that could be charitably called “Elon handlers,” to keep him from doing to them what he has done to Twitter.

Tell me when meta can do legs. #tooSoon

Please post links, I’ve never truly understood the systemd/init conflict, unlike the emacs/vim conflict. I’d like to learn more!

Damn, do I enjoy ediscovery.

I’m presuming Domain Specific Language, as the context refers to a “target domain.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language

I know a life of typing has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame autocarrot.

‘Sailor’ seems to have confused it, no results, just infinite(?) progress spinner.

http://etymonline.com , maybe?

The meetings will continue until morale improves.

I have so many irritants in the experience of using windows professionally, that I’m not going to waste time discussing it. I will leave you with one observation though. For any gi…

I can’t speak to the actual act of Java development, but I can speak to Java applications from a sysadmin perspective (15 yr Sr. QA Engineer to a 3 yr Linux admin (don’t ask)) — I’…

The issue is a drone, or debris from a drone, getting sucked into the engine intake. This debris can effectively turn the engine into a large amount of shrapnel, crippling the airc…

Living here in Portland, though, my fear is that it won’t be developers taking a flyer to build these homes, it will be the investor class bankrolling the developers to build perma…