@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/

@cliffle @rubiline Since I don't see any explicit indicator, is that...Doritos-flavored vodka? Doritos-flavored rum? Or does the "uncategorized" stamp mean basically "we're not even trying to pretend this is any actual identifiable kind of liquor"?

@slava @steve @rk And of course an option for ENOENT: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_

@arj @acsawdey heh, nice. Aren't append-only caches with no eviction policy great?

@mxshift Servers really are an underappreciated food preparation tool: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/qB336jds7593W438TB

@petersanchez My initial thought is that it's a brief trend that will probably subside once the initial hype wears off.

I had similar thoughts about the rise of emoji though, so I'm probably wrong.

[click goes the shittiness ratchet...]

@cliffle I have to say, in this oh-so-hypothetical scenario, that based on past experience with similar phenomena that later became entries in the errata lists of an ARM core or two, I might take the opposite stance on your "probably" there.

Might it by any chance involve explicit clean or invalidate operations?

@tubetime @wren6991 @lofty @mei Alternately (or perhaps as a second level of bumper bowling), use __attribute__((constructor)) to install a SIGSEGV handler to just quietly "make the problem go away" a la https://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/osdi04.pdf (might also need to shim signal(2) and sigaction(2) to make sure it stays in place in case the Serious Enterprise Software tries to install its own crash handlers).

@mxshift Also wait, I seem to recall you mentioning an older Audi previously -- whence the switch? (Or am I misremembering...)

@mxshift Any fun decorations planned?