MightyBigCar @MightyBigCar@octodon.social

@Ricardus Las Vegas. Fortunately, I've located a potential source of good beer 5 minutes walk from the hotel. Assuming I don't melt on the way.

It's 8pm and 40freakingC in this city. Why why why would anyone build a city here? There is no rational reason for it to exist.

@Mainebot Now I'm thirsty! I'll keep an eye out for it. Probably won't make down to our region, though.

@Mainebot whatcha drinking?

@ikewise foggy here. Think I'll sleep a bit more.

@ConnyDuck very well then, have some drinking bees. #tuskydev

@Averly seriously! There should be an envelope you can rip open to get the Critical Clue Shortcut that lets you solve the mystery. Even if it is something like "sorry, you can't do that on Fedora 28, so everybody dies", it would save a lot of hassles and angst.

@Averly unfortunately, instructions are almost always written by experts who assume that you know all these background details that come with domain expertise, whereas in reality the typical reader is flailing in deep Waters well beyond the safety rope of their depth of knowledge.

Or something like that. The metaphor doesn't work as well when I write it down as when I thought of it.

@distel nice!

The hammock looks great! From the sounds of it, it's a great place to sleep, too. How much does it weigh?

Did you portage around the fallen tree, or turn back?

@Mainebot as far as I can tell, screaming in rage is the default state for a crow. If they're not doing that, they're flying around looking for something to complain about, or maybe a nice bit of roadkill.

@Mainebot I'll let you know in the morning...

@alienghic Dig out an old laptop, wipe it, install Linux, connect to hello.local, and then start running driftnet to see what the neighbors are up to.

@brook Script ported, checked in to Git, deployed to users. I sense a beer in my near future. Possibly more than just one.

PS Why do awk programmers always write their programs as a single super-long line? When I finally reformatted that monstrosity with line breaks and indentation, it was over 200 lines long. And existed in two versions, that differed only by the polarity of 4 comparisions and 1 boolean variable. Aaaaaaaaugh...

Definitely more than one beer.

@brook My goal this afternoon is to get Wiley's mess ported to python+numpy and then head for the exits.

Great googly moogly! It gets worse - Wiley doesn't even wait for all the processes in the forkbomb to complete before merging their outputs and generating & reporting the final statistics.

Which means we've been making engineering decisions based on a non-repeatable process.

Is it beer o'clock yet?

Look, Wiley E. Coyote Super Genius shell programmer, bash + awk is not the right combination for heavy duty statistical stuff, especially if you have to process a few thousand files of over 100MB each. And particularly don't fork each file's handling in an awk process inside a bash for loop. We've got languages & libraries intended for this sort of thing: octave and matlab and scipy and R and more, all installed and ready to use.

@Siphonay and the antagonist is Warldo.