I recommend it. Try to go in blind.

Pickled okra is wonderful. That a gumbo are the only way I can eat the slimy stuff. Pickling seems to burn away the slime.

Try your local library.

I feel lucky to have avoided this so far. It’s really not like this on my team. I write a fair bit of code and review a ton of code.

I love that proco being a pig is treated as mildly weird. His relationship with the fascist government is more important to the plot than that he is a pig. No one else is an animal. It’s just a thing that happened to him. You can tell it’s a big deal to him, but no one else really cares. You could remove him being a pig and the story still works fine. It just makes the regret and inadequatecy more obvious.

I think I like Howel’s Moving Castle more. But it’s close. That one gave me a whole author.

I think it was the EPA’s National Compute Center. I’m guessing based on location though.

When I was in highschool we toured the local EPA office. They had the most data I’ve ever seen accessible in person. Im going to guess how much.

It was a dome with a robot arm that spun around and grabbed tapes. It was 2000 so I’m guessing 100gb per tape. But my memory on the shape of the tapes isn’t good.

Looks like tapes were four inches tall. Let’s found up to six inches for housing and easier math. The dome was taller than me. Let’s go with 14 shelves.

Let’s guess a six foot shelf diameter. So, like 20 feet circumference. Tapes were maybe .8 inches a pop. With space between for robot fingers and stuff, let’s guess 240 tapes per shelf.

That comes out to about 300 terabytes. Oh. That isn’t that much these days. I mean, it’s a lot. But these days you could easily get that in spinning disks. No robot arm seek time. But with modern hardware it’d be 60 petabytes.

I’m not sure how you’d transfer it these days. A truck, presumably. But you’d probably want to transfer a copy rather than disassemble it. That sounds slow too.

Not looking at the man page, but I expect you can limit it if you want and the parser for the parameter knows about these names. If it were me it’d be one parser for byte size values and it’d work for chunk size and limit and sync interval and whatever else dd does.

Also probably limited by the size of the number tracking. I think dd reports the number of bytes copied at the end even in unlimited mode.

Code talker?

Mine looks a little like that. It’s my job though. Everything’s on GitHub.

When someone is having a computer problem I ask them to restart first. Not because I think they don’t know to do it, but just in case. Some people don’t know. Sometimes people forget. Obvious advice is useful sometimes.

I think all those are a little true. But I’m mostly guessing. I’m happy to change my mind if anyone knows better.

Either way, these folks are my hero.

It’s hard. I love Harry Potter. I love Ender’s Game. But their authors hate the people I love. Not personally. They don’t know them and hate them anyway. It makes me sad. I want to share those books.

But I guess it’s better to share books by people who don’t hate my friends. I’ll always have Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I’ve been sharing The Golden Compass with my kids lately.

Harry Potter was good. But I can live without it in my life. I think I will keep sharing Ender’s Game though.

We knew spooks were all up in the phone network. They’d show up and ask installers to run them some cables and configure ports in a certain way. I was friends with folks who were friends with the installers.

I work on software for finding things and summarizing stuff. We were one of those Apache 2 -> other relicenses a while back.

I can’t really talk about specifics. But we all have a working imagination though. I think about it a lot. But I still do the job. There are good folks doing good things with it.

I’ve been listening to the Andy Serkis reading it lately. First experience since I was a kid. It’s surprisingly nuanced for something so old and so baked into the popular culture. It’s kind of amazing how flattened my memory of it from childhood is.

Dune as well. And Snowcrash too

I’m a pretty good engineer. Not the best I’ve ever met by a long shot, but I’m good. But I’m very outgoing for an engineer.

Ironically, that’d describe both my parents too.

I had this one weekend when I was in tenth grade where I did nothing but write code on a fun project. Then I decided I didn’t like writing code. I don’t know why. Kids are weird.

I decided then I couldn’t make it my job. I managed not to program for three years. It turns out I’m bad at everything else. Miserable.

That was 22 years ago. That’s still all I’m good at.

Pre-merge code review should stop that kind of thing. I honestly haven’t seen anything like this in years.

Chrono Trigger. The Magus Fight. The music.

FF6. Magitech Factory. Also music.

Metal Gear Solid. Psycho Mantis. Late at night. Tired.

Eternal Sonata. Last Fight. Intro line.

Hades. Final boss. Extreme measures 4.

NES Tetris. Crashing.