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penryu

@penryu@hachyderm.io

Rust aficionado. Functional programming advocate. Final Fantasy collector. Oxford comma proponent. Armchair etymologist and reluctant descriptivist. No shilling.

I will like your cat photos. My opinions are my own.

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irvingpop, to random

The perfect confirmation dialog does not exist…

penryu,
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@irvingpop Where is this prompt. I want to use this product.

jwgoerlich, to random

Gentle but timely reminder, courtesy of IBM in 1979.

penryu,
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@jwgoerlich True statement... though it puts the 1940s in an awkward position.

saramg, to random
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Y'all, America desperately needs to embrace the metric system.

Fer reals.

penryu,
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@saramg You'd end up with the same people thinking "milli-" means million.😂

april, to random
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big middle finger to the universe, but especially to the colleague who made my bones hurt by pointing out that the z in tar -xvzf hasn’t been needed since version tar 1.15, released in 2004.

penryu,
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@april @fraggle I feel like I accidentally discovered this 2 years ago and refused to accept it.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Should you get a notification from your server when someone unfollows you?

penryu,
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@evan Exactly. It's one of several pieces of data that I believe should be opt-in.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Do you like Star Wars?

penryu,
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@evan It's "fine." It's decent sci-fi schlock, like it's frequently mentioned counterpart.

penryu,
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@evan Are you asking why I subjectively choose one absurd yet fantastical sci-fi series over another (two)?

I've enjoyed all three. I prefer Doctor Who. By a substantial margin.

penryu,
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@evan It was a sort of culture interview session, and the format was a bunch of "A or B?!" questions in quick succession, presumably to test your ability to make "tough" decisions with no context on a moment's notice.

penryu,
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@evan

In a job interview I was once asked, "Star Wars or Star Trek?"

"Doctor Who."

NanoRaptor, to random
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    penryu,
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    @NanoRaptor How did you eliminate the moiré interference?!

    Pwnallthethings, to random

    Given how vast the cash-cows of Azure and AWS are ... it is astonishing to me how bad the user-interfaces for both actually are

    penryu,
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    @Pwnallthethings This should be a Guy Ritchie film.

    evan, (edited ) to random
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    Do you post here for work?

    penryu,
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    @evan I'm interested in how instances are categorized? What makes an instance "professionally-oriented" vs amateur or social?

    It's entirely possible this is documented somewhere and I just didn't realize.

    foo, to random
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    Congratulations, Apple, on your Rapid Security Response system, and in particular on figuring out a way to apply OS updates with less than 10GB of downloaded data and 45 minutes of installation time.

    penryu,
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    @foo agreed. Now, get back to explaining what's in the updates.

    Ange, to random

    Any recommended book on the topic?

    penryu,
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    @Ange One of these seems unlike the others.

    penryu, to random
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    @moparisthebest Have I mentioned your avatar makes me want to play Half-Life?

    penryu, to random
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    Dear iOS,

    Uber is also an uber-useful prefix for a normal word. It doesn't always have to be capitalized.

    sickeroni, to random German
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    yeah... wathcing a series when working and then the protagonist says "hey siri" and yourapple homepod escalates....

    penryu,
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    @sickeroni Oh, that would be a decisive win!

    penryu,
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    @sickeroni Still waiting for the day I can watch ST:TNG and my replicator will accidentally make me some hot Earl Grey tea.

    penryu, to random
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    Dear Everyone Praising the "Successful" Writer's Strike,

    This happened 15 years ago, and "the market" responded with thousands of hours of "reality television", conveniently sidestepping any need for writers.

    Still no easy solution as long as "the public" are still swayed by puerile dramatizations of idiotic mock history.

    penryu,
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    If you have a series you genuinely love, or a streaming service that provides you the quality fiction you crave, pay them. They deserve your money more than the Jersey Shore or Yet Another Serial Killer Soap-Drama.

    tastytronic, to random

    Everyone agrees that the S3 fan service was out of control. But what we really want to know is: why wasn't Groppler Zorn included in some way?

    penryu,
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    @tastytronic AFAICT, all the seasons are fan service. But it's fan service I'm enjoying. :)

    penryu, to random
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    Remember when the ArsTechnica site was readable?

    penryu, to random
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    Oh you want to nitpick about whether posixen is really a word and what it would mean if it were anyway and really unix doesn't mean what anyone thinks it means anyway....

    I'd like to SIGQUIT this conversation with extreme prejudice. Please collect your core dump on your way out.

    shafik, to random
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    I have two good options for next weeks quiz.

    Neither one will make most folks happy.


    penryu,
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    @shafik unhappy is what makes them good options!

    penryu, to random
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    tl;drtfm

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