Bob

You did wonders with that rec. Still my favorite scotch.

At that point, I think the universe would spontaneously manifest a toxic poly relationship partner named Eve for you both.

Hi Alice, I'm Bob.

I have received your message securely.

Eventually you'll be able to skip the construction on 45 and just travel North-South through town by changing lanes on 10.

Strong historical correlation between socialism and snowfall.

BSD developers... Nah, who am I kidding: there aren't enough of them to make generalizations like this.

Not mine, but a former coworker who does a decent bit of networking writing (lots of IPv6 stuff): www.forwardingplane.net

Have you reviewed the advice of the great lawyer Pagliacci? That should solve your problem.

a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face . Alt: Matt Damon rapidly aging 30-40 years.

What do you mean? The Yankees won the World Series just the other...

"I'm in this photo and I don't like it" meme template that has been edited to say "I'm in this skeet and I don't like it". A screenshot of the questionnaire that Facebook shows when you report a post, titled "What's going on?". Below that are radio buttons with four options: "It's annoying or not interesting", "I'm in this skeet and I don't like it", "I think it shouldn't be on Facebook", and "It's spam". The second button is selected.

"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think "oh, the lawnmower hates me" – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle." — Bryan Cantrill

Please tell me that you have included everyone's favorite take on Larry Ellison... (Transcription screenshot via simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/17/..., originally from Brian Cantrill's talk at USENIX LISA many many years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN...)

Until I got to the quote post I thought that this was another "We Didn't Start the Fire" update.

Reject this push request if you are being held hostage by your organization's Duo admin.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

I think your history of the Peloponnesian Wars might have had a small typo there...

Delicious. Finally some good fucking trades.

Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约 I'm Xiaoma, a polyglot who has studied dozens of languages. Until the age of 18 I grew up speaking exclusively English, and then I got the chance to learn Mandarin and live in Beijing for a year where...

Pretty sure that the guy in grey is also @xiaomanyc on YouTube. youtube.com/@xiaomanyc

Folks in Philly have it figured out. They just park in the middle of the street.

A fluffy white Great Pyrenees dog with her mouth open, looking into the camera. She is wearing a red scarf that says "Seasons Greetings" and a green Christmas sweater.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate from Angua!

Agreed, no comparison. Sorry for hitting the Astros with some strays here. 2017 and all of that is a baseball issue and this right here is a basic humanity issue. The point is: fuck Matt Shaw.

No, he's not. He's a young 3B who just came up and is performing okay given his experience. The organization seems to hope that he'll continue to grow and be a cheap, reliable IF option. But, as a fan: trade his ass and overpay for Bregman. (I'll forgive the Astros before I'll deal with this shit.)

Tate just has a very punchable face.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and a duck that does crimes

A (male) friend was telling me that one of his (female) employees said that he was the best manager she'd ever had because he was the only one that treated her like a person and wasn't just trying to sleep with her. The bar is so low that it's in hell and so many people still limbo under it...

Because it's arranged for a **youth** choir, obviously. (I'll see myself out.)

A new #Jepsen report: we demonstrate data loss and persistent split-brain in the NATS streaming system, in response to simulated power failures/OS crashes.

https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1

I thought the pitch for BSky was that there was no algorithm. Yet here I am being pushed Dijkstra content!

"This new piece is baroque in style and covers themes of misplaced loyalty and broken trust and it's called 'Concerto for An Empty Bowl'"

I didn't know about that... I've been playing on the Switch, so the Android version might *be* a graphical improvement.