Subsequent research indicates that this is known as "surface hoar": https://avalanche.org/avalanche-encyclopedia/snowpack/weak-layer/persistent-weak-layers/surface-hoar-2/

Assuming a causal relationship (naturally), the obvious question is its direction -- nominative determinism or merely descriptivism?

@rk @Grittens I think @arnd might be such an individual?

@rk Wi-Tang is for the chuldren.

@rk @spiegelmama @GossiTheDog And it's especially hilarious that they renamed the company after it.

Like a facial tattoo of a one-hit wonder band, only it's a zero-hit wonder.

@rk @cks @mothcompute I believe AFS has a similar mechanism wherein a symlink named @foo resolves to the output of runing foo as a command -- primarily used in the form of @sys, which would point to e.g. linux-i386 or sunos-sparc or whatnot for bin directories and such in the days of more heterogeneous networks.

(Granted, I wonder if it was really just that support for that particular pattern was special-cased, given what a nightmare it would be implementation-wise and performance-wise to actually execute arbitrary commands in the middle of namei() or the like...)

@arj Ah, nice...I had tickets to seem them a few years back, but then a certain suddenly-ubiquitous viral pathogen went and mucked everything up.

@rk So obviously the most appropriate place to consume baklava is on the rim of an enormous caldera -- which is exactly what I was doing earlier today, as it happens.

@diondokter @estherschindler Same here, FWIW.

@rk ...wait is that actual real-life marketing copy?

I guess we get what we deserve.

@regehr @SnoopJ ...and even without seeing the original post, my immediate reaction upon reading this was "hey, that sounds like gdrive".

Update: the tree is still good.

(From a different angle this year.)

@rk @Toxic_Flange Seems like the natural way for things to evolve, frankly -- Coca Cola is, after all, an anagram of Cloaca Co.

@cliffle

Rust time formatting using the chrono crate doesn't repeatedly restat /etc/localtime

Hmm, so is the implication that it might not gracefully handle timezone changes in long-running programs while glibc would?

@david_chisnall @dantheclamman That last paragraph reminds me of another Onion classic: https://theonion.com/new-delicious-species-discovered-1819567839/