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Two CSS propeties walk into a bar.

A barstool in a completely different bar falls over.

Murray's Rule:
Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't.
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing
thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?
-- Alan Perlis

Why does it take so long for the software industry to change, grow, and evolve?

SSH-themed horror movie ideas

1) Host on Haunted Hill
2) Ghost in the zsh
3) Dude Where Did I Redirect My Output?
4) Paranormal Activity Detected
5) The Exorcism of systemd
6) The Silence of the Error Messages, Even on Debug Level
7) The GNU Witch Project
8) Salò, or the 120 Days With Still No Patch From Our Vendor
9) Invasion of the ICMP packets

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
-- F.M. Hubbard

hello, everyone. still here. still a weirdo.

i have had enough of gays pushing their sinister agenda. i dont care how nice they are, moleskine planners are overpriced

I see someone made tenforward.social, but as a radical DS9-ist I would only ever join promena.de

the amount of work I've had to do to report my california-source income is approaching the order of magnitude of the amount of work I had to do to earn it

How Algorithms and Authoritarianism Created a Corporate Nightmare at United

This is a really worthwhile read about what happened with United Airlines the other day. It holds some important lessons for building human safeguards into our increasingly algorithmic management.

globalguerrillas.typepad.com/g

youtube.com/watch?v=0SLoOzTMjC

"Beware the curse that falls on young lovers
Starts so soft and sweet, but turns them into hunters"

US politics, the discourse Show more

Anger a nerd in one line of shell

apt-get install nano ; alias vi='nano'

i think the next embroidery project i do needs to be putting

# chown -R us /base

onto some nice tea towels.

You are in a maze of twisty instances all alike. You are likely to be eaten by awoo!

The local ATM greets the world with the words "operating system not found"
ah yes
monday mornings truly are universal across the organic/synthetic line

There are two cultures on Masto: the people who love the memes and jokes, and the people who endlessly debate the best federated PGP-encrypted Linux-powered mechanism to deliver those jokes

I don't think Haskell the language has ever made me feel dumb, picking it up wasn't that hard. But community interaction certainly has.