I’m a simple man. I see midnight commander, I think ‘dang, I need to use it more, stop calling me out’

But how do you write your awk script?

Might be checking the old password on the new password screen. Easy programming mistake to make I guess? Apply the same validation to all 3 password fields…

Many years ago, my aunt bought an old, terribly specced laptop and couldn’t get Windows to run on it. I installed Ubuntu and everything was fine - she could check her email and browse toxic conspiracy theories on Facebook and all was good with the world.

Two years later when visiting I got my first support request - would I mind showing her how to print something? No problem, but would you mind showing me what you were trying? She was selecting menu items to send to a virtual printer, not the one on the network. I show her the correct printer to send to and the thing prints. Easy. Out of curiosity, I check the outbox queue for the virtual printer. Over a hundred documents, going back two years.

For two years she’d been unable to print, and every single time she’d ever attempted to print something she’d followed the exact same steps that didn’t work, and just accepted that this was the way things were.

SMH.

Well yeah because booting into Linux is so much faster

If you grew up hearing the crackle, then to have it removed is pretty jarring. Some stuff feels to me like it benefits from it because it’s kinda old-timey stuff anyway, and it sets the mood better - like the Beatles or Frank Sinatra. But it’s not an audiophile thing in that case, just vibes.

Let me know how the film was, I haven’t seen that one!

Mulleins always make me think of triffids with how huge they get

Astroprojection is a dying art and I applaud your service

I’m not sure that anything can objectively be said to ‘matter’. So, yeah, I guess? Things only matter to us because we.care about them, sure…

That seems a little glib to me. Not all stories are lies, not all stories have happy endings, some victors are known now thousands of years after their death. On a cosmic timescale I suppose that, trivially, nothing matters - but, conversely, the cosmic timescale is so vast that it doesn’t matter to us…

Also I couldn’t really parse what you were saying in your second paragraph so I’m gonna leave that there

Phenomenal work there

Hah. I’m sure once I read the rest of the responses I’ll see the observation that 1 is just a slow route to 2

I, too, like to smell my own farts. Perhaps we could exchange scents

Apparently I was thinking of ‘Conflicts in Civilization’, which was just a scenario set for the base Civ II game. Tbh I sucked hard at that game back then but in my defence I was too young to really get good strategy and just enjoyed building wonders

Civ II expansion was peak. I never felt better than the one time I managed to win as humans in the humanity Vs aliens scenario

AOctothorpe

I think you’ve got a point here, in that the sort of Devs who want to be able to refactor their code without breaking everything are also going to be the group who lean more into having code that actually runs quite fast; but given that reasonML is awesome and didn’t get much mindshare my position here is that wasm will only start to eat into tyspecript’s lunch well after a huge subset of TS can be compiled to wasm (or maybe python ((I blame the xkcd guy for python’s unreasonable popularity, I feel it’s hugely overrated))).

I kinda look at it and think ‘who writes unstructured dB inserts with unescaped string interpolation in 2024?’

Absolutely not true. I know this is just my experience, but I’ve worked with plenty of devs who’ve contributed prs and/or donations back to OSS projects in the past, and all my former employers have opensourced at least some of their software