Notices by Michael Gurski (emag@strangeplace.me)

@skinnylatte @keira_reckons yeah, I infuriate or at least confound the people I'm with when I say "we need to go this way to get to this location", and, no, I can't explain why I know it. It's just... My ground truth. It's what it is, where we're going, and the way we get there, and we will.

@skinnylatte @keira_reckons would it be correct to assume that you can look at, say, a map of an amusement park and immediately know both where you are and where you want to go?

Or just have an intrinsic notion across a geographic area of what's where, how to get there, and how to get back? Most of my attempts of giving directions seem to fall flat, though they make sense to *me*.

@skinnylatte this is... Fascinating to me. Most of my life, I've imagined or dreamed visual representations of problems I've been subconsciously trying to work out. Like, I've literally dreamed imaginary constructs that represent programming problems I've had.

It shouldn't surprise me that others don't, but it still floors me that someone may not be able to visualize something. It's rather humbling.

I'm just going to say that in relieved that the #50501movement #50501protests were very much akin to #occupy than an excuse to round up and imprison people. My cynicism, though earned, was very wrong on this point.

@tek I can see why it wasn't appropriate for 1969. Definitely would have been a late 70s or early 80s thing.

@tek oh, wow, that was pretty bad. Still watched it all...

@jwz please please please tell me you'll start doing this...

Lyman Vunk: [instructing a managerial training class] We reserve the right... to refuse service... to ASSHOLES like YOU.
[the entire class repeats his example]

@dalias @aburka that many small files is going to be the worst performance ever. If you can consolidate in a tarball, a zip, a rat, even without compression, before copying, you'll see a huge performance increase. This was my bane when I had to do backups on a PB of data across many multi-TB volumes. Weeks. When they moved to "archive" and I consolidated them, hours to write the same data to WORM tapes. It's the open/read/close cycle. Open/close are fixed times, so more is slower.

@silverwizard I'll never begrudge someone spending their free time on something they enjoy. At the same time, for *me*, some things became better to buy vs build, for my own valuation of my free time. But that's a me decision, not something I expect others to adhere to, like building a NAS or something.

@hacks4pancakes maybe a little too grounded...

@feditips sadly, very few people younger than me know why the "one choice" is called a "radio button"...