beardie_jamie

@beardie_jamie@mastodon.scot

I get paid to swear at computers.

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beardie_jamie, to debian

Random tangential thought sparked by @lproven Register article - what happens when runs out of Toy Story character names? Turns out people have calculated this (of course), and it should be good for at least the next 90 years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/pnybsb/what_happens_when_debian_uses_up_all_of_the_toy/

oxidecomputer, to random
@oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io avatar

Announcing general availability of the world's first commercial cloud computer

https://oxide.computer/blog/the-cloud-computer

beardie_jamie,

@cstross @oxidecomputer @attie 'no additional licensing to manage or to pay for'. To be fair, that is one point of differentiation from a zSeries - not dealing with IBM licensing. At least for now...

CountBinface, to random
@CountBinface@mastodon.world avatar

i.e. give his wife another cheeky bonus before he gets the sack.

beardie_jamie,

@A_C_McGregor @cstross @CountBinface yep, the (relatively) sane ones are going to be concentrating on the post-election leadership contest.

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

Welp, agreed to give a 30 minute talk in Stuttgart next month. That’s 1200km away. Only viable option is to fly (hint: the North Sea is in the way—the ferry is expensive AF, and the fastest rail route is over 12 hours and involves 2 changes). Even flying, I need extra days for travel. And 1-3 days to prepare the talk. (I'm out of practice).

So: a 30 minute talk costs me approximately five days.

(I'm doing this one because there are side-errands en route. Otherwise, it's not worth it.)

beardie_jamie,

@mjr @cstross But that would involve using the British and German rail systems, which, sadly, is not a low-stress option these days.

beardie_jamie, to HeavyMetal

New song from Judas Priest. Eighties-tastic (in a good way)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_l-trEOtbk

garius, to random
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

This all-day training workshop is in a room with about four plug sockets.

Which is a spectacular oversight when every attendee is from the IT department.

Ain't nobody brought a pad or pen.

beardie_jamie,

@garius slow motion musical chairs as everyone rotates next to the sockets?

lauren, to random
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org avatar

BREAKING: In speech, Trump declares that he "has a much better body" than Joe Biden.

beardie_jamie,

@lauren I'd be checking all the large freezers at Mar-a-Lago...

hotkey, to random

Hot take:

null-terminated strings were a mistake.

Bring back Pascal* strings!

*ok, with extensions for more than 255 characters.

*Pascal strings have an initial byte that contains the length of the string. Meaning that you don't have to scan through the whole string like an idiot trying to find the terminating null character.
And you don't go on reading memory into the sunset if said null character is missing.

beardie_jamie,

@hotkey I remember seeing an article about this a while ago - found it again:

'The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake' by Poul-Henning Kamp

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2010365

garius, to random
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

I am running at 177% of recommended adulting levels today.

beardie_jamie,

@garius 😬

garius, to Cats
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

Need to go into the office today.

He's not happy about this.

beardie_jamie,

@garius 'there'd better be a kebab when you get back, or else...'

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