David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)‘Beware the SATAs of March’ doesn’t have quite the same ring.
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@malison Vibe coders may not actually be literate, but having the relevant O’Reilly on the shelf is a powerful talisman.
@NanoRaptor It’s wonderful if you can get ethanol-free fuel, but the evil additive is mostly mandated in Canada and eventually turns to crud in your engine’s plumbing.
For my small engines I get premium grade ethanol-free at the nearest Rez and even then make sure I run everything at least twice a year.
@cks Allegiance to ultimate evil can explain a lot of design choices out there. Incrementally piling stuff atop stuff probably covers most of the rest.
As a longtime #fvwm user I was hoping maybe #xwayland would let fvwm drive the display, but fallback positions are either ignoring Wayland entirely as long as I can or looking for which of its solutions will torque me off least.
Mark Dominus
@SwiftOnSecurity Redacted the redacted!
@resuna Later they punted and went Unix and our shop had a DG AViiON which was apparently NOVA spelled backwards with a Roman 2 in the middle. I recall it ran System V and we tried not to call it Data Genital out loud in front of any passing suits.
Resuna*He went away from the basement and left this note on his terminal: “I’m going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.”*
-- Tracy Kidder, "Soul of a New Machine."
Even when I first read it I was not particularly impressed, it was well written and interesting, but I had this niggling feel all the way through that Data General was conning Tracy Kidder because it was clear early in the book that the project was doomed.
But this quote has stuck with me.