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Usenet’s is having a minor resurgence, we could be trendsetters.

When you stop looking for bugs you can honestly say you haven’t found any. That’s how how the pandemic ended.

I’d feel compelled to post tree wizard in various forms. Everyone would get sick of me.

I can’t decide who’s more likely to buy this (if it were new): current me out of nostalgia for a pretty good OS, or 1995 me went to Incredible Universe on release day to buy Windows 95.

Time for all the maintainers of datetime libraries to unionize and give a collective nope.

Yeah, that’s the kind of thing I did only more often. Plus it was back when the conventional wisdom was that 50% of source code should be comments. So there was a LOT.

Just say your profanities aloud and don’t let them make it to version control.

In the first major software system I designed and helped build I was a little too open in my comments. For years after that software had entered sunset I’d still get Slack pings along the lines of: “This looks like a Maximum Derek comment: …” They were all diatribes about whatever was giving me grief when I was writing the code and they would all look perfectly at home in the script for 48 Hours (minus the racial or sexuality slurs).

In my defense we were working with PHP 5.3 at the time.

Worth it if I never have to negotiate another colo contract or have to spec new servers 9 months in advance ever again.

I used to think Javascript was hell when I barely used it. Now I have to build with it regularly and… once in a while I’m just right about things.

tar -tvf is a favorite of mine.

If I had known that in college I might have gotten an actual STD.

I have a slightly higher appreciation for recursive acronyms now.

3 buttons (not counting the one it’ll be aimed at). Would they be :, q, and enter?

Thank you for explaining the joke.

I mean, my IDE highlights all the TODO’s in yellow. I don’t know how we could possibly make it any less error prone.

Isn’t this pretty much what happened with the LIDAR on the most recent commercial moon lander?

GLADOS was already attempting to digitize employees. And we all know you don’t concatenate employees, because the DIFFs become useless.

I’m not good at making things, but I’m not bad at telling computers how to make things.

Yes. It was done most recently in 2022

In that same study, ClamAV performed relatively well at detecting certain types of malware in certain types of files (E.g. docx files, dil files, elf files, doc files and exe files), but was less effective in detecting malware in jar files, js files, vbs files, z files, rar files, and xlsb files. In addition, ClamAV performed well to detect a few top level categories of malware like Trojans & Botnets but performed poorly on other malware types like Crypto Miners, RATs and Info Stealers.

Linux virus are uncommon but they exist. If you’re worried about it, ClamAV is free and you can just run a scan from time to time.