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I’m a big fan of screen because it will let me run long-running processes without having to stay connected via SSH, and will log all the output.

I do a lot of work on customers’ servers and having a full record of everything that happened is incredibly valuable for CYA purposes.

Sort of, but aimed more at general purpose computing rather than gaming

How would y’all feel if Valve started selling PCs with their flavor of Linux on it?

The guy who wrote this is gone

I’ve gotten about 1,000 alert emails in the last 8 hours because of this

It’s not pride, it’s just that I know how to use it really well and that makes it easy for me to use.

But it’s really only for viewing files on another system over SSH. For local work I use Sublime Text

One of the many things I loved about Sagan’s Contact is that, at the end, they found a pattern in pi when put into base 13. He didn’t really go into it as it was the end of the book, but I really wish he’d survived to write a sequel.

If pi is truly infinite, then it contains all the works of Shakespeare, every version of Windows, and this comment I’m typing right now.

I work with databases and don’t use master/slave because it’s not really accurate. Replicas break a lot, and the primary doesn’t have any control over them.

This is why I take my job as sales engineer very seriously. If a customer isn’t right for the system they’re far more likely to churn, so I’m going to come out and say it regardless of how it makes sales feel.

I was a gifted kid who realized that when I applied myself all I got was more and harder work that I also didn’t want to do. Being successful academically felt like a punishment.

So I don’t mind at all that I’m filling out Jira tickets. It’s easy work and I have other things to enjoy.

Maybe you had ones with built-in hard drives which, if ejected unexpectedly, may have caused problems on early Macs.

But there was and still is no “computer” icon on the Mac OS desktop, and dragging a disk to the trash just ejects it.

One of the things I like most about my customer-facing technical role is that users find the craziest bugs. My favorite is a bug in a chat program that would keep channels from rendering and crash the client. The only clue I got was “it seems to be affecting channels used by HR more than other departments, but it’s spreading.”

Turns out the rendering engine couldn’t handle a post that was an emoji followed by a newline and then another emoji. So when the HR team posted this, meaning “hair on fire” it broke things:

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