Yeah they seemed to be editing code live in production with no revision control. What morons.

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Thanks!

Years ago I thought I was being smart encrypting my home dir on my Linux server. I found out the hard way this prevents remote login over ssh using public key encryption, as the .ssh dir is in the home dir, which is encrypted unless you are already logged in at the time! So every time I wanted to ssh in, I had to plug in a monitor and log in on the console first.

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Checked exceptions require a function to declare the exceptions it can throw. The caller function must then catch and handle the exception, or the exception would bubble up a level, in which case the caller must also include that exception among the exceptions it declares that it can throw. I don’t know if C++ does this, but Java/C# do. It sounds exactly like Rust’s system except with different syntax.

My last job was Windows desktop, so I installed vmware and ran Linux in fullscreen mode.

Sorry, I would have linked their own website but the original page is now gone. Their headline in 2020 was ‘“Social media should not fact check posts” says child molester Mark Zuckerberg’. The post made more sense being on Facebook, though.

The Chaser did this joke better in 2020

I figured as much. Just wanted to show another option.

I love httpie for hitting urls when i want to see the headers or body without downloading to a file eg testing an api

This was a few years ago so maybe it has improved, but I found that screen would crash and lose my session history and layout too often. That was bad enough, but when it happened it had some bullshit error message about a dungeon roof falling in. I don’t mind some comedy in code or even the interface, but don’t make light of the user losing their stuff. I tried tmux and it is much more stable than screen was.

mkdir -p will not complain if the dir exists

I think it means “owes more than the value of the collateral”, so even liquidating the collateral to pay off the debt will leave you with residual debt. I’ve usually heard it called “underwater on the loan”.

Haha true

in the 90s telling (and asking) people those things would have been such a suspicious, sketchy move.

a/s/l?

Velcro sewn to just inside the top of your pocket, so sticking a hand in your pocket makes a loud noise and you can feel it, for any pickpocket to separate the velcro.

How often for What’s New Pussycat?

I’ve heard of PoE bulbs, but not seen them anywhere. That would be awesome for smart home as well as the powering aspect.

Russian Ark. I got free tickets from my company, so took my now wife to go see it as I was into arty films. She still gives me shit about it 20 years later. It’s basically 3 hours of a camera panning around a former Russian Tsar palace with various historical scenes going on in each room.