Alexander Martin @alexbuzzbee@fosstodon.org

I prefer both my hardware and my software to be user-serviceable.

I would like to remind everyone that if I follow someone or boost their post, that does not mean I think they are a good person. It means I find their posts interesting, and that is it.

Like the elves going to Valinor in LoTR but with moar boosters.

Related: People have made KSP "land speed record" cars that, for a portion of the run, if the spoiler is retracted (and the car magically doesn't burn up), will immediately and gracefully lose ground contact, continue on a trajectory tangent to the ground, letting the planet curve away beneath them, leaving the atmosphere, and escaping the planet entirely into orbit of the sun.

Challenges in KSP can sound deceptively simple at first glance.

Example: Land at least one part on Duna. All acceleration must happen in an atmosphere.

POLL: There is a _____ amount of XML and that's a ____ thing.

Binary interface compatibility is a lie invented by Big Linker to sell more precompiled object code

mkfifo backpipe; chatbot < backpipe | chatbot > backpipe

*waves loop at data structure aggressively*

Just found some Python written when I clearly wasn't thinking straight, along the lines of:

for k, v in some_dict.items()
if k == some_key:
do_thing_with(v)

Yeah...

Fixed to:

do_thing_with(some_dict.get(some_key))

The people who make the rockets that land made another bigger rocket that lands and it didn't explode yet.

CREATE TABLE databases (name TEXT, sqlite3_db BLOB);

Software engineering and development is the industry of creating progressively more and more complicated and intensive ways of showing the words "Hello, world" to someone.

scram - shut down all the machines you have access to

The scram command immediately starts the shutdown process on every known machine on which any of the current user's ssh private keys allows logging in as root or a user that can su to root or sudo a shell or the shutdown command as root, or that has polkit access to shut down. Once all other machines have started shutting down, the local machine is also shut down if the current user can do so.