Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

The New Yorker essay on Oceangate is really good, for those of you that enjoy a long read.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen

Happy Friday all. I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

It's amusing to me that if you choose 'Update and shutdown' AND the updates require reboots you'll still encounter the phenomenon of thinking that you chose 'restart' instead. It's logical behavior, and yet...

There's a lot of debate about the relative merits of remote work, but I will tell you this: People absolutely use it as a means to hide when they're needed.

Although my favorite part of this interaction was "can you use your admin account to fix it?"

And again I lose a morning because some RA has chmod'd 777 on the root file system "...to get their web app to work" I don't even want to know

Saw this trundling along on my way into work. The horn at this distance really gives your ears a workout.

A "Why I'm sticking with open source (because corporate greed)"video probably doesn't need a 30 second intro for your sponsors. Sorry, but no.

The news coverage of this supposed fight between two billionaires shows so many rotten things in tech and business, and the societal decay consumerism and the need to be entertained has caused. It's just pathetic.

One thing I miss about Twitter is where are all the hot girls that want to meet me, faving my toots

I am convinced this happens because they're scared they'll be told they're full of shit, and the overbearing excuse is that engineers don't have the people skills to really speak to management.