I worked next to a technical writer for Unix; the Unix. One of the things we were known for, actually, was the amazing documentation. This guy and both teams of writers (that many) maintained the doc as their entire job. It was written well, it was spell-checked, it was accurate, it was accessible. If you installed the machine, it was on http://localhost/doc or so.

Almost all tech writers were turfed after Y2K. They cost money and didn’t earn directly.

If you notice a lack of good docco like you notice a lack of mentoring in code dev (I see you, Systemd), then we know how we got to this stage.

If you become CEO, just keep that in mind.

In gitlab.

In the terraform project that builds it. Or in the cinc.sh config that makes it go.

MD lets me add diagrams.

Tell me you had to do real work with Systemd and discovered what a steaming useless pile of millennial shite it is as a whole, without using those words. The only cure for lennart’s cancer is to cut it out.

ReactOS has SUCH potential. I really wanna see it thrive.

Sounds like an ingenious way to avoid shelling out a fat wad of cash. Well done!

I worked in a building designed to be heated by that generated from the mainframe in the basement.

…then computers got smaller ;-)

So it’s like a really simple motion capture because it sees the QR codes and knows where your left arm is sticking?

Could it be that basic and effective?

Arguement

\sigh

I don’t have an apple TV. Or an iPhone.

I have Apple TV for a while, during the ForAllMankind days and especially Ted Lasso. Some of their TV is great.

But killing my subscription took me three tries. Holy hopping shit, Hannah, was it a bag-drive just to find the page and make it happen. Their entire website is one big incestuous circle asking you why you don’t have an iProduct and why not buy one here.

I’m 30 years in Linux, I should mention, and I worked at a distro building and securing Linux and AT&T Unix, and I’m somewhat nerdy. Still. It was such a mortal trial.

Never going back.

Remember when the US successfully sued and dismantled companies using their market presence to unfair advantage?

I know people at a freightline company. They have retirement parties for 25-year workers about 2-3 times a year that I hear about.

There are good trucking outfits out there. you Canadian?

D’ya wanna be?

henway

Wait. What’s a henway? #bout5lbs

So long as there is funding for the arts, Ross is replenished endlessly.

Holy shit. What a direct and quantivative comparison to the power of memories to keep the spirit of our loved ones alive through giving (in my family’s case, stories; did I enter tell you of the time when my uncle met Loretta Swit?) of ourselves and sharing them with others.

Huh. I’m no judge of art, being a low-born oaf, but in retrospect that is clearly art; and evocative as fuck.

The ability to point out my own mistakes has maybe done the best for my career, long-term.

…which no one uses in great quantity but it serves as a reason to divert attention to some idea of bloat and not to an editor without a fucking beep mode.

Instead of using old proprietary shit you could use Linux or *BSD with a vintage desktop environment and have a blast

I’m not sure you get it.

The CnC operator, for instance, didn’t choose windows; they chose the CnC machine because it’s best at making wood into shapes they need. It came with ‘a computer’ to control it. That computer had a desktop and an icon.

You see how CHOOSING THE OS wasn’t on the list? They chose - and fucking get this - A CNC MACHINE out of a printed catalogue with a 30-word write-up. The number of CnC machines with a Unix or Linux or BSD or BeOS install on them in 2000 was - drumroll please - zero.

If you want to fix that, you’re going to need a time machine. Remember to bring your flag with you.

Go learn about ReactOS, too.

loose

You sure?

Tell me you understand the health risks with unnecessary touchscreen use.

the deficit being cited as a key reason

You think the current efforts and changes will get that credit rating fixed?

We have one of these in my building, except it’s shipper-agnostic – amzn, ups, FedEx; even purcolator if they can find a 30-storey building rising the highest above this sea of wwi bungalows today (50-50). It’s called a blue box.

It’s so much better than amzn just ditching packages right inside the front door so anyone sneaking in behind a resident can quickly steal it. It was bad at our old place.

I’ve got ya, my dude.