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It took me a minute to understand the original post because the verb sanction means both itself and basically the opposite of itself. It would be better to say "any territory that the US has levied sanctions against". I thought LetsEncrypt had banned its usage in the US! The word for words like sanction is contronym.

3 months agodiscuss

This is ironic considering Netflix used to be all about sending people DVDs.

6 months agodiscuss

The highway between Tucson and Nogales, Arizona, I-19, is the only highway in the country that has signage only in kilometers. It has been that way since 1980. It was a pilot project for the Metric Conversion Act. The highway is 102 kilometers long (63 miles).

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My first computer!

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My biggest terminal frustration would be lack of access to Terminal. I have loved terminal windows since about 1981 or so. I was a big DOS fan and would only use Windows up until the Mac switched to OS X. I switched and never looked back.

Every day I use zsh on my Mac and bash on all the servers I use (almost all are Ubuntu).

My biggest peeve is the difficulty with formatting output in an elegant way when writing shell scripts. I have wrangled it for the most part, but all the solutions that I have found seem a bit janky.

3 years agodiscuss

The temperature in Cupertino is currently 50F. That probably doesn't meet your definition of cold though.

3 years agodiscuss

I kinda like the way ansible does it. There is a concept of a vault. You put all the passwords in that file and they are all encrypted. You use one password when running the command or playbook and all of the keys are decrypted as needed.

I don't know if that is efficient for 30K machines though.

3 years agodiscuss

This piece is similar to Steve Reich's 1966 piece called "Come out".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Out_(Reich)

3 years agodiscuss

I think there is a change of attitude with a shorter work week. If I am working 9-5 at the same place everyday, I basically live there. It is easier to decide to take more breaks because there is no Friday to relax or get chores done or go to appointments. I take every other Friday off and it helps me focus more at work. I schedule all my weekday appointments for Friday (as much as I can). Monday thru Thursday I can push a little harder and be a little more focused because I know I have Friday (or a week from Friday) to take my dog to the vet, me to the doctor, or whatever else I need to do. I would love a real 4 day work week.

3 years agodiscuss

I have never wanted to hurl more than I do now. But in a good way. :-)

3 years agodiscuss

I don't know about extreme heat. I have been to Colombia and there are very different climates. I am not sure exactly where they were, but it is probable that the temperature there was more warm with lots of rain.

3 years agodiscuss

A child was abandoned in the colombian jungle at the age of 4 and lived in the jungle, raised by monkeys, for 5 years.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/marina-chapman

3 years agodiscuss

My favorite piece of hers has always been the 13 minute version of Timesteps from the Clockwork Orange movie. Some of her works are on Spotify.

3 years agodiscuss

They economy is doing great. The problem is that 40% of the income in the US goes to the top 1% of people. That needs to change in order for the US to get its middle class back.

3 years agodiscuss

I am just happy there is a search engine that will tell me when I am wasting my time and theirs.

4 years agodiscuss

I was just looking the Preceden site today. It looks like a nice timeline program. Good luck!

4 years agodiscuss

I got my first real developer job in my 50s. I don't recommend this for many people. But it works for me. I am doing well.