A Wizard Did It.

The Princess Bride

If you have seen it. You are happy to watch again. If you haven’t, you will love it.

Overall sand repellent crotch.

Nose flaps.

Nictitating membrane(s). Heck that solves lots of issues.

Chip R&D. We only use 1’s, 0’s if management is feeling generous. There are no circles, no need for pi.

If you code adding the current branch to your shell prompt will change your world.

Also, if you are getting good use out of find, you should learn to pipe the output to GNU parallel. Put those cores to work!

For deeply nerdy computer/network/IT/programming: On the Metal

Only 2 seasons, but some great interviews.

It’s always better to regret something you have done than something you haven’t.

By the way, if you see your mother this weekend, tell her “Satan! Satan! Satan!”

I dont think it is because of me, but if they are getting fewer reactions they might apread out.

I escaped ads and a dictatorship only to come here and be told how great communism is with an even greater frequency.

Blocking hexbear communities just led to those users going to other instances and making the whack-a-mole more difficult.

I’ve known I was coming to computer something even from a very young age, and when I read ‘The Soul of a New Machine’ by Tracy Kidder in high school I had even done some consulting.

It was like a window directly on my future professional life. I did EE at school and have been in chip design for over 20 years. This Tracy is not a computer scientist. He is a writer, but his effective reporting of the world is so spot on.