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> during the inevitable outage it was comically discovered two star trek fans configured two machines to the same trek quote as a password.

Was it "Live long and prosper" or "He's dead, Jim"? The latter seems more suitable given the circumstances :)

In my opinion, I'd say pull out troff if you're thinking about making a PDF, or if you want tables or equations (see http://www.troff.org/prog.html). Personally, I mostly use markdown when I want to generate some HTML but don't feel like typing tags by hand, or just as a sort of "style guideline" when writing text files.

troff takes a little bit more work but it can put out some very nice-looking documents with a lot of control over the formatting and some pretty handy utilities for tables and math and such. For example, pretty much all the Plan 9 papers were written in troff: https://9p.io/sys/doc/

"This tiny gas tank means I have to stop every hundred miles to fill up," the man said, "but the tank fills up so quickly!"

And it lets you listen to real radio, not streams, which will improve coverage outside of the US and Europe (found two streaming stations in Japan, neither of which work, and about a dozen in all of India)

There were certainly implications that the AMD coders were making technically compromised decisions:

> The reason the toplevel maintainer (me) doesn't work for Intel or AMD or any vendors, is that I can say NO when your maintainers can't or won't say it.

And telling them to sit in a corner and really THINK about what you've done, young man:

> I'd like some serious introspection on your team's part on how you got into this situation and how even if I was feeling like merging this (which I'm not) how you'd actually deal with being part of the Linux kernel and not hiding in nicely framed orgchart silo behind a HAL. I honestly don't think the code is Linux worthy code

All pretty mild, really, but I'm not the one who got the email telling me my months of work was not Linux-quality and would not be merged.

(I am giggling at the idea of "Linux quality" being held up as an ideal)

Based on what I've heard, recruiters may say you're guaranteed for whatever particular job you want, but in the end that has zero impact on your MOS.

Bhatura are deep fried, roti are pan-fried.

Edit: basically, India doesn't have a particularly big tradition of oven baking, so by a definition of "bread must be baked" you're gonna have a lot of things that aren't bread.

The scammers in this case are apparently a small-time telco. In other cases, the scammers set up 1-900 (or equivalent) numbers and try to get their marks to call the number.

You forgot:

Bloomberg - Michael Bloomberg

> Farming equipment was built ruggedly in those days, and it was simple enough that you can keep fixing and patching and welding it up almost indefinitely.

Interesting thing about the little old tractors, they were generally just the engine & transmission, with a seat stuck on top of the transmission and wheels attached. No real body or frame to speak of, it was all drivetrain. See this pic for an example: https://cdn1.mecum.com/auctions/gf0311/gf0311-103923/images/...

This book is exactly what came to mind when I read the article.

Traditional Indian music has its own complex musical theory, named notes, etc.

Pour some pills in the trash and tell her it didn't work. TCM is possibly worse than homeopathy in that at least homeopathic medicine is just water, while TCM is god knows what garbage.

Poe's Law, Bitcoin sub-clause, strikes again

> Radio host Adam Carolla, who collects and races vintage cars, said with a stick shift, drivers can’t “just lean back and go into autopilot mode.”

I think this is an overlooked advantage. Modern cars are ridiculously powerful, yet modern drivers are more less attentive than ever. I feel like the roads would be safer if everyone wasn't just mashing the Go pedal as soon as the light turns green. A manual transmission promotes more mindful driving.

We sometimes get situations where there's a semi-important note in a daily newsletter, and the group secretary decides to copy-paste it in an email to the whole group. Then the level 1 manager doesn't look at the To: line and forwards it to the whole group again. Then our level 2 manager gets the same information from someone else and forwards it to the entire group as well. I'll get the exact same information about today's health and wellness walk or whatever upwards of 3-4 times.

> If you live in rural America, your friends and family all regurgitate the same things they hear from Fox News, Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, Breitbart, and other conservative sources

It's funny that conservatives 'regurgitate', while liberals are simply repeating things they've thought about deeply after hearing John Oliver say them.

> Some website managed to convince her to switch to developer mode to install a non-web-store extension that overwrites the new tab page and search functionality with ads

I'm not even mad, I'm honestly impressed both that your mom went to such lengths and that a website managed to convince a layperson to do such a thing.

I see some other commenters also remember 'Car Home', released in Android 2.0 way back in 2009 to very little fanfare, and eventually killed off: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/building-android-a-40...

Or, or, OR, I can just keep a toolbox in the garage instead of spending an hour+ searching craigslist and meeting some dude in a 7/11 parking lot every time I need to tighten a fucking screw!

And this is the situation with damn near every ARM board you can buy! It's depressing. I finally had to give up on my Efika MX smartbook because they never got past a 2.6 kernel, which IIRC eventually meant I couldn't upgrade libc past a certain point, which meant I couldn't upgrade anything else.

And depending on the voltage provided it will draw a range of currents.

Your post makes me want to turn off my computer and go raise goats in the country, lest I somehow end up like you one day.

A $25 Lamy Safari has done well for me for the last 4 years.

I'd rather it stayed the exact same speed it used to be, even if that meant only providing the same features as I had in 2006. The web was pretty good in 2006!

No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

Hopefully they're just combining two efforts, because Slackbot can already reply based on certain word triggers, so you set it up so it picks one of a selection of messages when it sees the word "guys".

Being a government agency, it may in fact be prohibited from making money.

"Not supposed to make money" isn't the same thing as "spend $140,000 on making your logos look hipper".

Three batteries in a backpack pocket will take up about the same amount of space as a wall-wart plus cable.