@rk I will die on the hill that "lib" (as in libc) should rhyme with "tribe", because it's obviously short for "library", while also still pronouncing /bin as rhyming with "tin". Self-consistency is obviously very important.

Also, while I felt sort of silly photographing a car (and not even a terribly rare one here) while walking through a historic neighborhood of Kanazawa, when we walked back the same way an hour later I was amused to see someone else taking a picture of the very same one (though I'm not sure what his reasons for doing so were -- I'm guessing probably not the same as mine).

@paulmckrcu @rw Oh neat, is someone producing prints of that now?

Also, looks like the Internet Archive has a couple others like it ("Unix Feuds", "Unix Views") that I don't think I've ever seen before: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Gary+Overacre%22 -- though I'll confess I'm not sure I entirely "get" the Views one...might someone with more historical knowledge than I be able to shed some light?

@rk "...and that's how I taught my dog to do binary search!"

@pancake @david_chisnall Funny, I've always felt that distinguishing the two was a good reason to do the opposite. (And of course, some styles also homogenize the two by instead omitting the space for control-flow keywords, which I also dislike.)

@jk Give someone a fish, feed them for a day; teach someone to fish, feed them for a lifetime; teach someone to think like a computer, crush them under an infinitely-growing mountain of fish.

@rk @mothcompute It happens: https://theonion.com/death-of-chopped-up-woman-ruled-a-suicide/

@cliffle @ede1998 Soo (compiler-appeasing contortions increasing to comedic levels)...

{
  let _unused = colors;
}

?

@rk Thanks, though I then regret to inform you that it was two houses ago and now quite a few states away...

@rk Well, he figured out how to scramble over that gate shortly after that photo was taken as I recall, so the joke was ultimately on us.

@rk We once were so cruel as to eat dinner on the opposite side of the baby gate from ours. Five years later I'm still racked with guilt.

@mxshift what vehicle is getting brain surgery?

@petersanchez IBM had this figured out for eSATA ages ago!

@cliffle @dpiponi Or the O(log N) operations are just really slow...like, stores are chiseling Roman numerals into stone, and loads involve OCR on an 8051 with a clock signal driven by a drugged sloth with a push-button.

@arj Shades of https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110310-00/?p=11253

@benjojo Perhaps these are the same people who added the command-not-found package to Ubuntu's default set. (Not exactly the same I suppose, but usually the first thing I torch on any new installation I encounter.)

@regehr Amsterdam might be promising: https://social.v.st/@th/113843212405715721

@david_chisnall Bowie was looking sleepier than usual this morning.

@jk @voltagex Then all you need is a way to introduce some controlled clock skew and presto, you could even adjust the duty cycle!

@cliffle Pets are great thermal photography subjects; unfortunately my already sort of camera-shy dog gets way more so when I pull out the Flir, so he's a bit hard to capture, but I did manage this one a few months ago.

@swetland I frequently find myself thinking "okay, that's it, we've saturated the scale, the world cannot possibly get any dumber than that", only for it to find a way to outdo itself mere moments later.