I think Key West (and the Florida Keys in general) is my favorite place in the world that I’d never want to live permanently.

But such a different lifestyle, mentality and ethos than the rest of the US.

Not as image-conscious and Southern California, and the pace is very slow.

And everyone knows how to fish, and knows about fish. And food culture is the best in Florida, though that’s not saying much (but the seafood is amazing).

It’s not nearly as quirky and bizarre as it was during the 80s when I first visited the place — but then again, nowhere is.

Too bad it’ll all be underwater soon.

I just figured out a very, very hard problem at work without access to the tools I really needed to troubleshoot it.

So, kids, when you have an inconsistent switch config and ESXi is expecting one VLAN and is instead receiving untagged traffic due to an erroneous native VLAN being configured only on some switchports, you gon’ have problems.

Took a while to figure out, even for me. But I did it without switch access by toggling VLANs on the ESXi host. Process of elimination is always slower than process of confirmation.

And that is why I got four job offers. That, and my humility. 😉

Agreed.

PowerShell is terrible compared to the Unix shell. Bash is so superior it’s not even a competition.

And OMG is PowerShell slow. So, so slow.

PowerShell is like an industrial dump truck. One of those big ones they only use on mining sites with eight-foot-tall tires.

Except Microsoft has tried to make it do everything, so when you try to drive PowerShell down a lane in a suburb it’s either do it at 0.5 mph or ruin everything in sight. And there’s no way to just take the Corolla because there is no Corolla.

It’s the dumptruck or nothing.

And the commands are so long. You have to compose a novel to do something that Bash can do in one line.

PowerShell is Microsoft’s Unix envy showing except they threw out all the good parts of the Unix philosophy and kept all the terrible, unworkable ones.

Lennart Poettering and the systemd morons would be proud. Hell, probably are.

Though I agree with some of this article, the demonization of atheists is just a little too convenient considering just how demonized they already are.

Tarring all atheists with the thoughts and actions of a very few is exactly what happens to peaceful Muslims — too bad the writer of the piece is too intent on some ridiculous position to see that.

Me, I’m not anti-Islam. Any more than I am any other religion.

Fuck ’em all. They’re all brainwashing and on balance evil. Christianity: Evil. Islam: Evil. Buddhism: Evil. All the others, too — the world would be better off without them.

Not nuanced?

I don’t care. Just because some forms of brainwashing are better than others doesn’t excuse them.