Your life and their life becomes so much better once you stop hiding it.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/the-energy-trap/

50/50 for me. Last update didn’t shut down, one before that did.

Updates only make products worse, not better.

If only an open source thing had some consistent margins. It could look so much better.

Try to do any formatting more complex than none at all in Confluence. It just gets polluted with invisible markup and changes styling randomly.

I’ve heard of people printing out charts, then cutting out the part they wanted to calculate an integral of, then weighing the paper.

If I have a camera on a tripod and I angle down…the view goes up. If I angle up, the view goes down.

I much prefer a simpler analogy: If I look up, I look up. If I look down, I look down.

I really like PowerShell’s object-oriented approach to pipelines. Unix pipes feel really dated in comparison.

Unix was originally a networked system that many terminals would connect to. Being able to actually reach the machine meant that you had authority.

It’s the same today. If someone has physical access, the system is so screwed that you can just give total privileges anyways.

First thing I do on Debian is disabling unattended upgrades. I will need to install some package now and it will always get in the way.

There’s also “testing” in between. It’s not as stable as - well - “stable”, but I didn’t have trouble with it.

Working as a software engineer developing for the IT team, I understand the system I’m developing on, but not the system I’m developing.

Jira customfields give me nightmares.