If your business is critical for modern human living, it should be non-profit. It should be guided by the best management plan of the time, debated and approved by the majority of shareholders. It should open its books and stay open.

Really, it should be government.

It’s monstrous, but gitlab installs from one big RPM on a base box; and with one config file you’re up.

The guy who wrote this is an idiot, but he became so in a world where “LoC” is a metric – one that Goodhart would love, but alas.

This is honestly the road to hell and the ~good intentions in one.

Yay! More places where devs will just say you can’t run their stuff.

I’m pretty sure I don’t need to use anything built by a company so preoccupied with my birthday.

… And based on usage, it’ll be run by a religious group. They consume the most porn, after all, and I bet this kind of bill is virtue-signaling or offloading of responsibility.

Thank you for not letting it slide.

Can we also work on mass nouns pluralized with an S (eg e-mail), missing delimiters after sub-clauses and lists (the “American Ghost comma”), and also “please bellow find following”?

most of the world have Android

Heck, most of the Known Universe. This is how I say it to my fanboy sibling who moves those goalposts just so only America is in-frame and the numbers show a small advantage for the Home Team.

It’s called the universal operating system for a reason.

If they call themselves that, it really doesn’t count. It’s like how trump ended like 10 wars to get his FIFA peace medal.

It’s just really not very good

So it’s a faithful homage to the ribbon mess, then. Yay!

looks like it hasn’t had any visual update at all since 2003

You’ve pointed out another great feature – no change-for-change’s-sake bullshit.

Document editing is a solved UX : except for occasional minor changes, there’s no need to fuck with the UI. Compare Tesla fucking with cabin controls in the cars and how the planet is going back to having the fucking knobs in the cars instead of in the design meetings.

This fails Hanlon’s.

Canada rejoices when our gas is only at us$5/gal.

Canada V3L. Transit is amazing.

I loved the MTA and PATH when I was there.

If my rough calculations are correct, we’d love to have gas prices that are only 50% higher than that. 🇨🇦

The NorTel remembers.

At least the banks are figuring out what we knew long ago.

You buy such a thing with Club Z points?

That’s the one you buy then if that’s what matters to you.

Yeah. But where can I find a phone with Qi, reverse-Qi, and a 3.5mm jack? Other than the old one I have now, that is.

begged two important questions

Nope. It just raised them. That reporter needs to go back to school.

sysadmin work for an public institution or so where people are only bullshitting their jobs.

About half my career and part of my current contract load is to a public organization of one type or another. But I’ve been half and half anyway.

Dotcom is a wasteland of gunners/pluggers and wageslaves, none of them afforded enough time to get anything complete and good. Public orgs with union contracts employ people with a good life balance and the freedom to do a great job about 95% of the time, after the layers of regulations are met.

I found slackers at both types of org: the public slacker is a hapless clod whose tasks all get reassigned and he really doesn’t do much. He’s about 3% of the workforce. The dotcom slacker is a harried guy muddling through something he’s not trained for, with no help since his peers have their own KPIs, hoping like fuck he can get Project Grapefruit done by next Town Hall meeting lest he be voted off the island. Again, 3%.

The public org is great people who’ve done this work effectively their entire career. They’re astoundingly good at it, and are still energized by the work and the educational programmes. Dotcoms have no training and the few people who make it past 2 years are likely PIPped by year 4 because of the “fresh talent” policy

I envy the public org people. I miss my non-work life sometimes.