Delightful!

“Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user’s disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!”

Gave me a giggle. That 100k loss has got to hurt for a user who still tries to run ‘vi’ on a classic system, I imagine.

Edit:

Another gem:

“Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.”

The ‘ed’ editor was designed for high latency networks. I would pull on that thread. That is, in your shoes, I would read up on ‘ed’ and related tools.

Lunchtime, doubly so!

Ooh. Good reference! Nice!

Absolutely.

I’ve always thought those rules were mostly inspired by Aaragorn, of course. I think he’s also why we keep getting a ‘ranger’ class that never works quite right if balanced, or is overpowered.

Sure, but you know what beats all three: two swords and an axe.

Richard Simmons rocks at least as hard as that flaming skeleton, in his own unique ways.

But they were Nazi dogs.

I had this exact conversation, and used this argument, with my own parents.

It must have worked. I was allowed to play Wolfenstein, anyway.

That’s heartbreaking. Radio Shack was so fun, while it lasted.

Perfection.

The Halo Anniversary collection shines on SteamDeck. It was my first purchase after getting mine, I think.

“Pay no attention to any warp 10 lizard children abandoned on a rock somewhere!”

Netflix can’t do what got them to the top.

They can’t grow that way but they could easily hold on and remain profitable, popular and successful.

They were well on their way to enjoying “Kleenex” or “Oreo” stable market success, but their leadership and shareholders apparently aren’t satisfied with winning.

I’ll take “Organizations that made it to the top by doing something different, only to fall under leadership that doesn’t understand what made them successful and descend into ruins” for 200, Alex.

Seriously, Jeopardy team - this is a rich category:

• Netflix advertisements.
• Zoom mandates staff return to offices.
• Microsoft forgets what the “P” in “PC” stands for.
• Toys R Us implements a shitty holiday gift returns policy.
• Sears decides to sacrifice reputation for quarterly stock price gains.
• Walgreens decides bottom-of-the-barrel incompetent pharmacists can uphold their “get it all done in one visit” secret sauce.
• Radio Shack decides that once-every-two-years cellphone contract sales are the future for holding passionate electronics hobbyists’ loyalty.

I thought I had “Mauerbauertraurigkeit” but then I realized Carl was just telling the same story, again.

There is no legitimate reason for this to exist.

Normally I would agree but this turned out to be the only way to protect the T800 model from the rigors of traveling via time sphere.

opens up a Pandora’s box of issues

It sure does!

The Marvel series ‘Agent X’ actually addresses some of this with Deadpool fighting to regain his skills and memories after being nearly atomized.

The show “Leverage” has some great ones. Mostly showing the hacker getting pissed that everyone else doesn’t understand his part of the job.

Also the hacking in the movie “Sneakers” is surprisingly accurate for a heist comedy.

It does.

The weirdness is that the random 13 year old apparently both:

A) Has experience on a proprietary server file explorer only that was almost exclusively in use in huge data centers at the time. And… B) decides that the slow graphics heavy option is the right choice over a simple command line, while a raptor is actively breaking into the room to eat her.

Edit: and yes, I get that we’re supposed to connect that her grandfather is rich and she grew up with all the best toys. Which arguably excuses A, anyway.

Spray painting a wall is fine,

Yeah. Particularly when private bank walls are right there prominently on many corners just asking to be painted.