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> I can't give them any sort of answer that makes sense ... Pride of workmanship. For those who understand, no answer is needed. For those who don't, no answer will work.

> ...management is making strategic decisions after snorting a long line of social-media-psychosis and TED talks. +1. Straight into my quotes file.

I love this. Straight into my quotes file.

Matt Stoller has written some excellent articles about Ticketmaster's monopoly crap.

Probably. As an American, I have to agree with you -- it's been the case for many years (WAY before Trump) that within 50 miles of our border, your rights go to wherever last year'…

I have a Dell 2208 monitor with 4 USB-2 ports. If I bought three of these switches, would I be able to share keyboard/mouse/monitor between two machines? My monitor does not have H…

Best part about open source -- Mercurial is still around, I use it for my home servers, and it's being maintained. I can use git, but Mercurial's workflow just makes more sense to …

The "Demon Seed" book was creepier (and a lot more pervy) than the movie.

I hope you're kidding. I've seen lots of 'Net people claim to be experts, and I wouldn't trust most of them to feed my cat.

https://lwn.net/Articles/343828/ describes Alan Cox trying to fix the TTY layer, being trashed by Linus, and removing himself from the maintainer page.

Exactly. Legal drugs get weaker because you can exchange information about minimum required dosages (saving money) without risking arrest. Illegal drugs get stronger for exactly th…

> It's a one lane road and "over taking" is not possible. Best poop-related comment I've seen.

Your core skills are fine. Unfortunately, appreciation for those skills has already been blasted into orbit by the AI-BS bubble. This tech has made it easier for second-handers to …

Thank you for this article. If I want to be told when to upgrade, I know where to shop, i.e. Bill's Bloatware in Redmond.

Great example of a commonplace book. Jillian Hess has written extensively about this -- her books are well-researched and organized.

I've read at least 8 articles this week about LLMs having massive hallucinations/brain-farts when writing testbeds for code. Unfortunately, the author didn't see the problems until…

If I treated reading like a chore, it would start to feel like a chore. I'm not being graded. If I start a book and I don't care about the subject or the characters after 50-100 pa…

> I don't think I've ever seen a school essay back then that wasn't obviously written by a parent. That's when you discuss the essay with the kid, and if he can't understand someth…

I'd recommend the book "Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think". Published by O'Reilly, ISBN-10 ‏ : 0596510047

> millions of victims from false advertising of Big Tobacco People have known that smoking is bad for your health for around 400 years. You can't fix stupid, not even by making adv…

I use it for two things: * saving webpages as text with the links nicely organized at the bottom, and * calling it from mutt (MUA) to display HTML parts of mail messages. It works …

I keep my history in a format showing the current working directory next to each command. If you're interested, have a look at https://bezoar.org/src/dotfiles/README.htm#command-hi…

Sounds like "Landru" in ST:TOS.

Sounds a lot like working with the US Air Force, unfortunately.

"Fatherland" by Robert Harris, 1992. Alternative history detective novel set in a universe in which Nazi Germany won World War II. "Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Ro…