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It’s okay to write it with the hyphen still in-place. If you’re going for English, it’s correct to do so.

It’s great to use an editor designed and built when vietname and leaded gas were all the rage.

everything controlled by our government is

The questions been beggared.

Did you make an effort? Yes/no.

There was a choice. You failed to choose the better option, and thus must accept the worst.

Simple-as.

4.2 GL of HOT water (which means running the kitchen faucet UNTIL it’s HOT (so, another gallon+)),

Hearing element in your washer is busted today?

Case in point: of all my Cult CDs, only “Ceremony” was super trashed when it fell outta my discman and onto gravel on the way to school. “Sonic Temple”, “Electric” and “Dreamtime”? Played a million times and still pristine.

You’re saying Trump is the ‘YOLOoooo’ president?

Still requires docker?

Blu-ray won over HDDVD via payola. Then it dried up. This decline has been foreseen for a while, but I’m disappointed Phillips hasn’t been muttering about super-dense DVD or a similarly shiny-sounding format to keep a sales channel and sell new IP.

You don’t lose or wreck the good ones.

The server I just bought has one.

getting rid of headaches, helping you lose weight, curing addictions, and so on.

These may be chiros, but they’re also quacks. Are you hating the chiro part or the quack part, if you had to choose one?

the pain relief they provide is temporary at best

So, opiates, then?

Ah. So MM’s still in the sidelines and IBM still pulling strings, so little chance of ditching fucking systemd in Fedora, and thus RedHat. That’s the one good thing I can see from a regime change: improvement of the codebase by, for example, pruning pet projects when the pets leave for Microsoft.

If we can simply help Americans understand small-s socialism from small-c communism, we’d be in much better shape.

Because yes, my healthcare is already paid in advance by me and everyone else from our taxes; and my buddy’s emergency Sunday morning quintuple stent install after the widowmaker heart attack and two ambulances and a bed in one hospital before transfer (a third bus) to the regional trauma/cardiac center for the operation and 2 weeks of aftercare was free to him that day – and his only concern was not dying. And that’s not just normal but that’s the general expectation. No monthly subscription, no premium cost, no user fee, just paid-parking and vendor-machine food for visitors not coming in via the train.

Our upcoming election will gut that, though. Being bankrupt, losing retirement savings and mortgaged to the hilt at 61 is the American dream mr Polievre has for all Canadian plebes.

As an end-user (that is, the IT staff that will be deploying/managing things), I prefer less-frequent releases. I’d love to see 1 or 2 releases a year for all software

The hard floor for release frequency must always be “as security issues are fixed”, and those will rarely be infrequent in our current environment of ever-shifting dependencies.

If your environment is struggling to keep up with patching, you need to analyze that process and find out why it’s so arduous.

As an example, I took a shop from a completely manual patch slog 10 years ago to a 97% never-touch automated process. It was hard with approvals and routines, but the numbers backed me up. When I left 2 years ago, the humans had little to do beyond validation.

The sad news is, the great loss of mentors after Y2K will be seen again after RTO, and we’re not going to fix the fundamental problems that enable longer release cycles in a safe way; and so shorter update cadence will be our reality if we want to stay safe …

… and stay bleeding-edge. Shifting from feature-driven releases to only bugfix-driven releases means no churn for features, but that’s a different kind of rebasing. It’s the third leg of the shine-safe-slack pyramid; choose 2.

The idea that money-per-human is the chosen metric for success, says a lot already.

It’s not evil. It’s merely

• the wrong tool
• built wrong
• on wrong principles
• by a bad team
• who has poor coding and interaction

and now RedHat’s wunderkinder has moved onto Microsoft where he’s a better fit. Ideally, we can go back to Linux again.

Simple.

As someone who ran security for an enterprise OS company, I can’t see why there’s any debate on this. Are we used to choosing comfy things despite the safety concerns, now, or just when Lennart shits them out?

freedom of speech

… never means Freedom from Repercussions . When you’re on the clock, you gotta follow the rules.