dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 4 weeks ago

author here - there is of course a good chance Disney will want to squash them like a bug.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 weeks ago

oh yeah, "they're making a bundle bootlegging our clearly in-copyright shit" is rather more clear cut

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

honi soit dude honi soit

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

AI->Cocaine replacement, in which AI really is God's way of telling you you have too much money

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

originally old soviet/post-soviet saying but highly applicable here also

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 1 month ago

it was entirely to appease Wall Street and not in any way because they had a product, let alone one consumers would be interested in

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

speaking as someone who uses bash all the time, it's a fully equipped programming language and you absolutely should not use it as one because it's made of footbullets. Use Python. For extra sysadmin flavour, make it a Python script that does all the hard bits with a system call to bash.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

dunno about mechanism, but as someone absolutely fried by ADHD i can tell you there's no nap as sweet as the nap after your third coffee of the day.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

many ideas cribbed from rants by our valued comrade @fasterandworse, who rants about Hooked at the slightest provocation

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

fly.io is closed source, of course he's not gonna show you the engineering excellence. trust me bro, you fool, you poltroon,

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

this is the one who pinged me to see if i could tell her about using Urbit a while back

 

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