The first language I was fluent in was Perl so PCRE is second nature to me. But then everyone decided they wanted their own regex dialects. And now there’s a PCRE2? Why 2? Stay with 1, you’re good together. What about the kids?

“Beaver Clearing Hillbillies” is a very different show.

There’s an OS that doesn’t require command line use to do anything slightly advanced? That hasn’t been my experience.

Wouldn’t the one that ops you into telemetry be the trap?

“Bash must have solved the fork bomb by now…”

what I do all day

btop could be pretty controller friendly

The Clevo OEM laptops that make up most of System76 laptop offerings are getting worse and louder over time. I’ve had two successive Oryx pros that both had persistent hardware issues that outlasted my warranty coverage, the 2nd of which was simply producing more heat than 3 air cooled heat pipes could ever hope to account for. I know why they stopped selling that particular model of Oryx something like 3 months before the next one was available.

By 2028 “alcoholic idiot” will be the only condition still protected by the ADA.

That’s the best poem about a 4-legged chicken that I’ve ever read.

I’ve been procrastinating for weeks about setting up a dev environment to help contribute to the codebase, but I didn’t procrastinate at all in preordering a Core-2. My Pebble Time might be the last piece of consumer tech that I was both excited for and a satisfied customer of.

That article is light on details. Trying to push 1000kW into an 800V drive train (current state of the art) is going to generate a LOT of heat. Is BYD going to increase the drivetrain voltage in order to bring required amperage down (and heat gen with it)? A lot of car makers haven’t even made it to 800 yet.

My car could charge in well under 15 minutes if any charger in my area could make it to the advertised 350kW. My high water mark so far (after 3 months) is 185kW. Usually its closer to 80.

Reminds me of that George Carlin joke: Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

So half of people are dumb enough to think autocomplete with a PR team is smarter than they are… or they’re dumb enough to be correct.

“useless” is a more positive impression than I have.

Interesting. I’ve never seen that but I also don’t think I ate sushi as take-out until Covid, so I have little experience to draw from.

I’ll celebrate when no one considers this to be news.

I prefer to think of Pluto as the king of the dwarf planets and namesake of the Plutoids, rather than as a weird lesser planet not appreciably bigger than its moon.

Wow. Our DMV didn’t get us our plates for for almost 2 months, and from what I’ve heard, that’s faster than usual.

Oregon

About a week ago I saw a brand new model Y (still had the 90 day temporary plate) sporting one of those “bought before elon…” stickers.