The I as in “free”, but shorter (not drawn out) and the u as in “urban”, maybe? It’s hard to find English words where they make the french U sound, but it’s pronounced the same pretty much all the time.

Hey, we pronounce both the same, too. Sorry English, that’s on you and you alone.

At the level I care about, which is “I want this daemon to start when I boot up the computer”, systemd is much better. I can write a ~5 line unit file that will do exactly that, and I’ll be done.

With init, I needed to copy-paste a 50-line shell script that I don’t really understand except that a lot of it seemed to be concerned with pid files. Honestly, I fail to see how that’s better…

Writing passwords down isn’t that bad, actually. We humans are very good at securing little pieces of paper; just put the one you wrote your password on with the other valuable pieces of paper, in your wallet.

It’s “sticking the post-it note to the computer screen” that’s the problem.

Last time they charged for an OS update was with Mountain Lion, which was also the last “big cat” OS. That was in 2012, and it was only 20$. The last OS release that was over 100$ (or even 50$) was Leopard, in 2007, at 130$. Back then, the only way to get it was on a CD, which is obviously much more expensive to manufacture and distribute than a download…

I don’t bother correcting people if they think I’m a guy online.

There are no girls on the internet anyway ;)

I use famous computer scientists. Torvalds, Kernighan, Ritchie, Woz (for the MacBook). My most recent one was bought in Hampton VA, so I named it kjohnson after Katherine Johnson (as seen in the movie Hidden Figures, she used to work at the NASA facility in Hampton).

I think it’s a good system, and I don’t think I’ll ever run out!

I just got into Factorio, and I’m lucky I have other stuff going on in my life, because it’s such a big rabbit hole I don’t think I’d come out! I never played it or even knew what the game was about, but the announcement last week about the space expansion got me to download the demo.

This last part sounds nice in theory, but it’s way outside the scope of what Typescript is intended to accomplish. I’ve been pursuing a similar goal on and off for 10+ years at this point, I even wrote an ORM for Backbone.js so I could use it on the server as well. Back then we called it Isomorphic Javascript, later on it got renamed to “universal javascript”, nowadays I’m not sure.

But yeah, the problem is similar with any code, really… What you’re often writing in software dev is just functions, but the infrastructure required to actually call said function is often not trivial. I agree it’d be nice to be able to have different “wrapper types” easily, but I’m afraid their usefulness would be limited beyond toy projects.

Yeah, at first it was the “glorified golf cart” angle, but when Tesla proved that wasn’t true, it turned into “they’re too expensive”, “ackthually they pollute more”, “rare earths”, etc… There will always be something.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.