It’s pretty sus and way too perfect, but the explosion actually happened.

Starting the year with a bang, huh?

20-disk RAID5 it is then.

Team building events back when I was working in a factory. One day every year we had the option* to go to a crowded bar and have overpriced drinks with the same people we met every day. I didn’t even like half of them (I was just polite and professional) and one shitty event wasn’t going to change my attitude. I would’ve preferred a regular shift on an assembly line.

* the other option was taking out a paid vacation day (non-American labour laws FTW)

aplay doesn’t bitch about encodings or signatures or checksums or something not looking like a media file. If you do something stupid (like pipe an executable file into it), it won’t tell you to go back to the child-safe play pen, it will pass the data to ALSA and do its best to render it as sound.

The Windows mind can’t comprehend the importance of the freedom to fuck around. But, looking at your comment history, you’re more of a professional contrarian and won’t even try to do that.

aplay: “Hey kid… wanna listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?”

Then we chose a point that doesn’t line up with either the apsides or the solstices to represent “zero” and sticking with our mistake for primitive reasons like “tradition”.

I am fork, forced to exist in soup.

Here, read these:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour

The trick is to listen to the pronunciation. Linus of LTT pronounces it as Linus, while Linus of Torvalds uses either Linus or Linus, but he doesn’t mind if people call him Linus.

/s

Our business-critical internal software suite was written in Pascal as a temporary solution and has been unmaintained for almost 20 years. It transmits cleartext usernames and passwords as the URI components of GET requests. They also use a single decade-old Excel file to store vital statistics. A key part of the workflow involves an Excel file with a macro that processes an HTML document from the clipboard.

I offered them a better solution, which was rejected because the downtime and the minimal training would be more costly than working around the current issues.