I sat in the cube at MCI (later MCI Worldcom... later defunct and sold for scraps) next to the lead guy doing Y2K auditing of critical infrastructure code that had been "fixed."

Even after the first pass, he caught dozens of errors that would have shut down the phone and data backbone for days or weeks at Y2K, and MCI controlled 85% of the North American backbone at the time.

Several times, I helped him walk through the code, and we found bugs that would have effectively shut down vast sections of the network and made it nearly impossible to patch. Without the routing of the network, it would have isolated the very machines that needed updated software. When people tell me that Y2K was a non-event, I get visibly angry because we worked our backsides off to make sure it was a non-event, and in return, we get told there was never a problem to begin with.

It makes me almost wish we'd have let it all come crashing down because we could have leveraged that for the next ten years of over-priced salaries instead of what did happen, which was five years of some of the leanest and most brutal job markets ever.

That was our reward for a job well done: layoffs and salary cuts.

This Leigh Claire La Berge and her story aren't worth the "cow dirt" that the guy took up shoveling after his retirement (he raised cattle).

For anyone actually looking for that type of game play, check out Amid Evil, Wrath or Graven. There's a slew of Doom clones and variations out there that are not A-list titles but provide great entertainment for fans of the original genre.

No, it hasn't. The code was always BSD licensed, which says that you allowed to do exactly what Redis is doing. Nothing what-so-ever has changed in the deal.

Why don't you educate yourself before commenting in public and making an idiot out of yourself?

First, the people who contributed to Redis did so knowing they were contributing to a BSD-licensed project, which explicitly allows this type of behavior. It's precisely why a lot of people (myself included) don't like the BSD license. The GPL doesn't allow this sort of thing. So why do you think that Redis chose BSD over GPL? If you don't want your code to be taken and used in a closed source application, don't release it under the BSD license. If you do release code under that license, you have absolutely no right to whine about someone using your code in a manner that you con't care for. You explicitly gave them permission to do so. If you contribute code to a BSD licensed project and do so under any understanding other than "People can do pretty much anything they want with this code" then it's your fault for not understanding the license you used.

Second, the developers damned sure can use the "Redis" code they contributed and were allowed to use before. They can't use any ADDITIONAL code which is added to the project under a different license, but the last BSD release is and will always be available for use under the terms of the BSD license - which essentially means for any purpose what-so-ever. Claiming otherwise is either ignorance or intentional misinformation.

It's a thing that is done by humans who aren't in-bred incels mistaking trivial absurdity for profound thought. You wouldn't understand.

There is a significant element of truth in what you say. We need to recognize and acknowledge that. But completely abandoning the concept of race is not the answer. There are significant health issues that are impacted by race. Sickle cell anemia and melanoma are two easy examples that correlate with race for different reasons, neither of which is related to social issues.

The popular concept of race was never particularly scientific, and the issue is absolutely muddied by historical prejudices. Most classification systems are artificial and boundaries are almost always fuzzy. The more you zoom in, the fuzzier things get. But that doesn't mean that generalized classification systems aren't useful, or have no scientific basis at all. Sigma taxonomy seems to be more scientifically valid than alpha taxonomy, but sigma doesn't abandon the concept of species.

Cue cat. I think I still have one of those buried in a drawer somewhere. But you're seriously showing our age.

Just out of curiosity, how many other untrue things do you recall? Have you considered seeking (legitimate, mainstream) medical assistance for the issue?

Krokodil is a RESULT of some drugs not being readily available. How many people would turn to it if cheap, safe opiods were obtainable? People reach for shit like that because they're addicted and it's all they can get.

I don't think it's arguable at all. Certainly, the output is much more aesthetically pleasing if I use a drawbot than if I use a pencil, as I have no drawing talent at all. But that pleasing appearance is not a result of any skill or control on my part. If I draw a square with a pencil, it may be lopsided and uneven but it will be roughly squarish. I have direct control, even if I suck at it. If I give a drawbot a prompt of "square:, it may be a perfect square with 90 degree corners, or it may be a picture of a carpenter's tool or a bunch of dancers in cowboy hats and boots. I can increase the detail in my prompt to attempt to constrain the drawbot into the particular concepts I desire it to represent, but I am still applying indirect control of an external process.

False dichotomy is false. You're asserting that one either insists that true art must be pristine, completely original with absolutely no relationship to any other act of creation, OR one must accept that that all acts of purported creation are equally derivative and so should be given the same respect and prominence.

Tools can be viewed as devices which accept input and produce output. The output of a pen or a typewriter are highly dependent up specific and controllable details of the input. The output of an AI drawbot is largely dependent on things other than the user input. The user of a pen or typewriter knows what the output is going to be. The user of a drawbot has only a very general idea. The output of a pen or typewriter is very tightly coupled to the input. The output of a drawbot is so loosely coupled as to barely meet the meaning of the phrase.

So you can insist that using a pen is the same action as using a drawbot if you want. And I'll repeat. The fuck it is.

The fuck it is.

In fact, it's as easy as installing a plugin with zsh: https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-...

Maybe not, but most terminal emulators operate in graphics mode. They emulate text mode.

And some if not all of what he's asking for is available.

I can "cat" an image to my terminal using my normal terminal, kitty, and viu. It wouldn't be difficult to write a script or an alias where the command cat would automatically select either the legacy cat or viu depending on file type.

fzf does fuzzy completion in a pop-up window. It wouldn't be difficult to link it to tab completion in zsh or some of the other more modern shells.

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