Badabinski

26 years later and it's still a fucking banger of an article: https://theonion.com/new-e-toilet-to-revolutionize-online-shitting-1819565332/

I wouldn't necessarily say that. I used to shoot competitively (service rifle across-the-course), and we'd shoot 200 yards off-hand. We don't know if the shooter was prone, sitting/kneeling, or standing. If they were standing (because they wanted to beat a quick retreat) then it was a hell of a shot. Honestly, even if they were prone it's not bad. Given the nature of the shooting, it appears that the shooter didn't want collateral damage. There were a LOT of people there, and that pressure would make any shot harder.

I'm not using it because it would be extremely inconvenient for me, but I think that the English language deserves to have the thorn returned to it.

Y'all lol.

I've been on a Lethal Company kick for a few months. I've been getting super involved in the "high quota" scene, where people try to get the highest quota possible. It involves a lot of crazy tech and good team work, and I'm really enjoying it.

Yep, taking some care early on can pay dividends down the road. The data structures you choose really matter, and YAGNI can stop you from going overboard with indirection and other shit. Premature optimization is bad, but there's nothing wrong with writing performant software as long as it's still comprehensible and extensible.

Where would be manually modifying modules.dep and map files on this, I wonder?

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it was a form from Google soliciting feedback on the thing.

Lovely, thank you for this. I've left my feedback, and I hope many, many other people do as well.

It also lacks any form of dependency management AFAICT. I don't think there's any way to say you depend on another service. I'm guessing you can probably order things lexically? But that's, uh, shitty and bad.

I wrote and maintained a lot of sysvinit scripts and I fucking hated them. I wrote Upstart scripts and I fucking hated them. I wrote OpenRC scripts and I fucking hated them. Any init system that relies on one of the worst languages in common use nowadays can fuck right off. Systemd units are well documented, consistent, and reliable.

From my 30 seconds of looking, I actually like nitro a bit more than OpenRC or Upstart. It does seem like it'd struggle with daemons the way sysvinit scripts used to. Like, you have to write a process supervisor to track when your daemonized process dies so that it can then die and tell nitro (which is, ofc, a process supervisor), and it looks like the logging might be trickier in that case too. I fucking hate services that background themselves, but they do exist and systemd does a great job at handling those. It also doesn't do any form of dependency management AFAICT, which is a more serious flaw.

Nitro seems like a good option for some use cases (although I cannot conceive why you'd want to run a service manager in a container when docker and k8s have robust service management built into them), but it's never touching the disk on any of the tens of thousands of boxes I help administrate. systemd is just too good.