OMFSM, the disco balls were used.
“Chechov’s disco ball”
Why is there no “head desk" emoji?
One of my favorite things about *nix is that stdin, stdout, and stderr are nothing more than user-space conventions supported by open(2)
and dup(2)
using the lowest numbered unused filehandle.
C++ is such a pain in terms of having to continually think of storage and object lifetime.
I pay 3 podcast networks and 1 individual podcast to openly share their work. I hope the walled-off networks shrivel up and die. twitter.com/marcoarme…
Cherry Cola Oreos are horrid.
Different ways of venting political anger: overcast.fm/+Mala3UcW…
If you are an Amazon customer (and who isn’t these days), you should listen to this week’s Reply All: overcast.fm/+DzGWWaMx…
Finally deleted the 40+ GB of apps in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Mobile Applications
. Sad that app syncing in iTunes is gone; all that wasted bandwidth for getting the same thing on multiple devices.
I love Inconceivable!. The amount of work that Dan Moren puts into the show is incredible. “Cheese or Polearm?" forever.
Today’s lesson: On systemd
systems, override the postgresql-10
service’s idea of the value of PGDATA
before running postgresql-10-setup initdb
.
Even if initdb
succeeds, postgresql-10-setup
will fail if the service’s PGDATA does not look like a database directory.
Email needs emoji reactions.
Clever of @TurbocastApp to use chapter markers for ads. Dynamically added ads preclude chapters and mean that they’re not at fixed points in the podcast.
Actions have consequences. 📷

I can’t bear to listen to the new Ministry album. Drumpf samples are just depressing as hell. Never had this problem Ministry albums released during either Bush presidency; those just got me riled up.
I’m liking the new Rhys Fulber solo album.
I died of pneumonia.

Someone signed up with Paypal with an email account I control. Now Paypal won’t let me go through password recovery to shut the account down.
Considering reporting all Paypal email as spam to my email provider.