What page in Dante's Inferno is that alluded to?
Heh. I actually replied below before I saw this, but the sendmail.cf file immediately popped into my head when I read the post’s subject line.
sendmail.cf
Not really on topic, but Steve Jackson has made great games for years: http://www.sjgames.com/
Same. Read every other Adams book at least a dozen times. That one sits on the shelf untouched.
I have a copy of that game sitting in my basement. Loved it, the book, and the whole package. I must go dig it out.
It's also the awesome slogan of the Dark Brotherhood in Skyrim, so in that regard, kind of awesome.
Textbook example of: GOOD_IDEA < GOOD_EXECUTION
Loudest voices to the dumbest people
You'd probably like this as well: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112066.Moments_of_Doubt_...
Amen. I've shown the exact same application on a dingy thinkpad and a shiny new retina iPad, and had diametrically opposite reactions.
Isn't that precisely the job? I had to automate my job when working full time in grad school, otherwise I never would have passed a class. Since I entered the work force, most jobs have been some version of "automate…
For fuck's sake. Don't people like work at work anymore?
aka the Golden Rule. aka "don't be a dick"
Seems a little dodgy to redirect output from an apparent scammers website to an apparent root shell.
Also, WTF, the last thing I'm worried about in SF is not having enough restaurants.
Amen. San Francisco is ground zero for well-intentioned, but ultimately awful public policy. Often these policies further make whatever problem they're trying to solve worse, because it gives the illusion that they've…
Part of the problem, if not a large-ish part of the problem, is that apparently drugs and alcohol are usually restricted from homeless shelters. And addiction is a large component of homelessness, but if you're still…
To be clear, I'm not saying home recycling is completely pointless. I think it does a lot to raise awareness that "all this has to go someplace, so at least think about it". But that's PR, not a solution. I'd prefer…
So someone still has to sort it. Raise taxes. Hire sorters. Save time and money by having software engineers spend more time learning software engineering, not whether a corn-based plastic spoon should go in compost or…
This has long driven me crazy. I have a version of this argument with my wife every few weeks. I live in a city that has three bins: compost, landfill, and recycling, and overall the city (SF) does a really good job…
Well, for nerd books, "Modern Operating Systems" by Andrew Andrew Tanenbaum. It was until years later that I realized just how much I had learned from that book, and the consolidated notes from the Usenet flame war…
Was anyone else completely blocked from reading that article because all the ads wedged the browser?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
Well at least we can all agree that "Coming Home to a Shipping Container" is still preferable to "Coming Home in a Shipping Container" </snark>
What page in Dante's Inferno is that alluded to?
Heh. I actually replied below before I saw this, but the sendmail.cf file immediately popped into my head when I read the post’s subject line.
sendmail.cf
Not really on topic, but Steve Jackson has made great games for years: http://www.sjgames.com/
Same. Read every other Adams book at least a dozen times. That one sits on the shelf untouched.
I have a copy of that game sitting in my basement. Loved it, the book, and the whole package. I must go dig it out.
It's also the awesome slogan of the Dark Brotherhood in Skyrim, so in that regard, kind of awesome.
Textbook example of: GOOD_IDEA < GOOD_EXECUTION
Loudest voices to the dumbest people
You'd probably like this as well: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112066.Moments_of_Doubt_...
Amen. I've shown the exact same application on a dingy thinkpad and a shiny new retina iPad, and had diametrically opposite reactions.
Isn't that precisely the job? I had to automate my job when working full time in grad school, otherwise I never would have passed a class. Since I entered the work force, most jobs have been some version of "automate…
For fuck's sake. Don't people like work at work anymore?
aka the Golden Rule. aka "don't be a dick"
Seems a little dodgy to redirect output from an apparent scammers website to an apparent root shell.
Also, WTF, the last thing I'm worried about in SF is not having enough restaurants.
Amen. San Francisco is ground zero for well-intentioned, but ultimately awful public policy. Often these policies further make whatever problem they're trying to solve worse, because it gives the illusion that they've…
Part of the problem, if not a large-ish part of the problem, is that apparently drugs and alcohol are usually restricted from homeless shelters. And addiction is a large component of homelessness, but if you're still…
To be clear, I'm not saying home recycling is completely pointless. I think it does a lot to raise awareness that "all this has to go someplace, so at least think about it". But that's PR, not a solution. I'd prefer…
So someone still has to sort it. Raise taxes. Hire sorters. Save time and money by having software engineers spend more time learning software engineering, not whether a corn-based plastic spoon should go in compost or…
This has long driven me crazy. I have a version of this argument with my wife every few weeks. I live in a city that has three bins: compost, landfill, and recycling, and overall the city (SF) does a really good job…
Well, for nerd books, "Modern Operating Systems" by Andrew Andrew Tanenbaum. It was until years later that I realized just how much I had learned from that book, and the consolidated notes from the Usenet flame war…
Was anyone else completely blocked from reading that article because all the ads wedged the browser?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
Well at least we can all agree that "Coming Home to a Shipping Container" is still preferable to "Coming Home in a Shipping Container" </snark>