"‘Winter Kills’ does a highly impressive job of milking laughs out of a subject that most people might not find to be that funny…
… (especially back in 1979) while still touching on the disillusion felt by many, both then and now, regarding the institutions they had been raised to believe in.”
Dee and dum.
Explaining The Postgres Meme.
I already knew that data storage and retrieval ain't ever been one of my strong suits, but after seeing this meme it kind of made me unsecure as I had basically zero effing clue about a huge portion of it. I felt the urge that I have to know what this is all about, so I have decided to learn from multiple sources.
Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee.
Some of the biggest companies on earth—including Meta and Microsoft—take aggressive, litigious approaches to prohibiting web scraping on their own properties, while taking liberal approaches to scraping data on other companies’ properties.
I wasn’t supposed to be Prince’s muse. He always liked to find a female muse for every season of his work, and for the album Diamonds and Pearls the word was that he was looking for a set of identical twins. I’m not a twin, so that didn’t seem on the cards for me. I went along to audition as a back-up dancer for the Cream video. It just so happened that another dancer who auditioned, Lori Elle, looked a bit like me. When Prince saw us together he decided that we could work as the twins. With that a one-week job became two years of my life.
…and Metafilter is still around‽
The Badger Song is 20 years old.
Superfluous Returnz (via studios.ptilouk.net).
The adventures of Superfluous, a very useless superhero in a peaceful village in the deep French countryside: helped by his assistant Sophie, who tries to somehow temper the enthusiasm of her employer, he will try to apprehend the mysterious apple thief who terrorizes the orchards of Fochougny...
Via fm4.orf.at and taz.de.
Relevant: Assembling a Black Counter Culture.
I hardly can put into words the way watching the Peanuts can soothe me.
Everything is data.
Nushell, a new type of shell.
Nu pipelines use structured data so you can safely select, filter, and sort the same way every time. Stop parsing strings and start solving problems.
Relevant: Oh My Posh, a prompt theme engine for any shell.
Relevant 2: Starship cross-shell prompt.
9 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 55% packet loss.
A Pigeon is still faster than the Internet.
In 2009, a company in South Africa proved a homing pigeon was faster than an ADSL connection, flying a 4 GB USB flash drive to prove it. Besides IEEE's speculative work, nobody's actually re-run the 'bird vs. Internet' race in over a decade. Now that I have gigabit fiber, I thought I'd give it a try.
Relevant: IP over Avian Carriers.