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I am at some escape room thing for team building. There are bars nearby. A plan is formulating.

Watching an old aviation video (50s) and I'm amused that a slide rule is referred to as a 'slip stick', which I had never heard before.

Haven't they suffered enough?
Ubuntu desktop team teases 'proof of concept' systemd on Windows Subsystem for Linux • The Register
theregister.com/2021/11/17/ubu

Local supersonic airflow is a known phenomenon on airliners, especially over the wing. Managing these was the focus of a lot of wartime work (yes...the Nazis) which was carried on in the UK and US afterwards.

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This is rad, supersonic (transonic really) shockwaves forming on a 767 engine nacelle, refracting the light.
youtu.be/K08Gc0tKWoA

I have seen terrible things tooted about both ketchup and Mayonnaise on my TL this evening and I shall be writing a stern letter to that fediverse blocklist.

I use iostat or the friendlier dstat to see if it's still writing.

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Discovered an interesting thing with DD on my linux box while writing a bootable USB. If the size of the write is within cache capabiliy (say the OpenBSD image) it can show as finished in seconds however the buffer will go onto write for about a minute. A small gotcha.

This bloke works for a turbine overhaul company in 🇨🇦, he has quite the series of videos. If you like engineering and/or gas turbines there's tonnes of good info. Also, fire...🔥
youtu.be/qfFqS74T3UU

I should change my Linkedin bio to 'murderer of recruiters' and see what comes in

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My favourite version of recruiter spam: "Hi, I see you are a linux administrator at [institution]. That's great, I have a fortune 500 that is looking for a full stack web developer." Like, fuck off mate.

Really enjoying the glorious wardrobe choices in Narcos Mexico. Loud shirts, stubble, and helmet hair. You can't go wrong.

All progress involves change, but not all change involves progress.

There's a big regression somewhere with the latest Firefox on Fedora/CentOS; video playback is severely degraded. I have no idea what's caused it.

Jim boosted

No politics intended... 

This is hilarious.....

Wait.... who's on first?

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Rocky Linux seems to hit that nice sweet spot between move-fast-and-break-stuff Fedora and please-love-me style of the Ubuntu-based flavours. Pretty nice for work use, and not too far behind bleeding edge thanks to things like Flatpak.

Absolutely outstanding YT documentary about the GEnX engines on the 787, but also about the bleedless (reduced pneumatic) architecture of the bleedless system youtu.be/Sf6H8kSunRA

A photo of the 🇳🇱 display team at Fairford in July 2010 in their bright orange and black livery.

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