Jeremy Phillips @jerephil@hackers.town

Ouch. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/taiwan-zoom-video-conference-1.5524384

Keys glanced at Picks from across the fire.
"Why do you say 'hella,' anyway?"
Picks shook their head. "Not sure. Something an old coot used to say where I grew up. I asked once, they just said it proved they were from Northern California."
"What's a California?"
"Beats me."

#coronavirus #capitalism @OCRbot

2000: Welcome to our shitty animated flash site for our restaurant. The hours will be baked into the flash so good luck if we ever change them

2010: Welcome to our shitty broken web site for our restaurant, here's a blurry, super-compressed scan of the cover of our menu

2020: Welcome to our shitty facebook page for our restaurant, we had a tech savvy young server set it up for us but then she quit so we can never update it again

Had to verify. And yes. Kernighan and Ritchie really did this. TIL :)

oddly appropriate question

It's a shame we in IT don't know our own field's history.

In the past, people have tried many things. Some of them didn't work for good reasons, and they figured out some of those reasons. Other things did work, and then they further developed them, based on experience gained by using them.

And here we are trying all these ideas again without even knowing they've been tried before, reinventing square wheels....

Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the best, die like the rest.