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nixCraft π§truth π
Christian Grobmeier@nixCraft I heard this first from my dentist twenty years ago. It is industry independent
Bill Tozier@grobmeier @nixCraft It's also how biology works. Not the field, I mean "everything alive"....
DanOla@nixCraft
Soooo true ... π
Soooo true ... π
xs4me2Isnt that great!
Poujol π±πππ β
Thomas H Jones IIMe: (seeing a script I wrote just for my own use, months/years previously being used to drive a CRITICAL organizational workflow) "Uh... where'd you get that script?"
Them: "Oh. We found it in root's home on a server and it turned out to be really useful".
People ask me why I (now) put so much effort into making sure "throwaway" scripts are full of error handling and other "this is a Real Program" features. You just never know what's going to become permanent.
Bytebro π¬π§ πΊπ¦ π¬π±
Siddhesh Gunjal@nixCraft it's like, it's temporary only if it works and if it works it's a permanent solution ππ
Meow.tar.gz 
@nixCraft A lot of that could be said for sysadmins as well!
shyduroff@nixCraft β¦ aye, temp status of m.i.t.βs temporary ww2 building 20 (r.i.p.) lived venerably on (and most famously-aye) for 50years β¦
LittleScrapsoftheNorth@nixCraft yes yes and yes.. been 7 years since we made a temporary interface between our mainframe software to the state accounting system.. no replacement in sight.
darcher π¦static constant all[] = (Ξ)
Anvil of Truth@nixCraft True in virtually every profession and trade from lawyer to fisherman, photographer to rocket scientist.
annie gray@nixCraft AKA a kludge π
David H. McCoy
Axel π΄π·π§πͺβ¨ | #WeAreNatenom@nixCraft: The Swiss even have their own word for it: #Providurium (From the German and probably Latin equivalents of provisional and durability. It's primarily a wordplay on the German word "Provisorium".)
dog of dogs@nixCraft i feel called out xD
@nixCraft This is also one of temporary solution from Microsoft πππ https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/110458880367206995