The first language I was fluent in was Perl so PCRE is second nature to me. But then everyone decided they wanted their own regex dialects. And now there’s a PCRE2? Why 2? Stay with 1, you’re good together. What about the kids?

There’s an OS that doesn’t require command line use to do anything slightly advanced? That hasn’t been my experience.

Wouldn’t the one that ops you into telemetry be the trap?

“Bash must have solved the fork bomb by now…”

what I do all day

btop could be pretty controller friendly

“Valve used to be a company that made games, now it just makes money” is a joke so old I can’t find the source, but I know it goes back at least 15 years.

Yup, a pi is enough for me.

Well… 5 Pis and an ancient NUC running proxmox are enough for me. And a DS920+… and an old laptop running docker are enough for me.

Be sure to print this out and give it to her in her first mother’s day card.

I’ve gotten in the dumbfounding habit of searching man <program> on the web instead of in the terminal I’m already typing in.

I find the grouping and ordering somehow soothing, except that years of programming have taught me that number sets should be zero-indexed. Get that 0 to the top left please.

Don’t worry, the road runs both ways.

Started using Linux in high school because Red Hat had a star trek game I liked. Now I’m a Sysadmin/Sysarch.

Oh yeah. And seats for the table (which turns into a bed or course) are the speaker boxes. You want it to sound like John Denver is holding a concert right there in the van… until the 8-track goes CACHUNK to change tracks.

I found his collection once as a kid, so I know the answer is yes. But that is already more than I ever wanted to know.

Mine is pushing 90. He also pretty much stayed in the 1970s and so peak technology for him is a two-tone Dodge conversion van with an 8-track player.

I’ve never been more glad in my life that my dad had to return his smart phone because he couldn’t figure out how to make calls on it.

🎵 That is what we awk 🎵

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It’s not just coffee, soda cups have ice lines and a growing number of soda machines have automated / measured filling. And if you go to a theme park your cups are RFID chipped so you can’t get refills (or only a certain amount of refills).

Just once I want one of those to say what it really means.

Please don’t return this book, it hurts our numbers. We just had an extra page ¯\(ツ)/¯