I once got assigned a work project to add new functionality to the web service of a recently-acquired company.

The meat of their codebase was a single lua file to handle web requests, query value from Redis, and then progressively filter out items in a loop. Of course, because Lua has no continue statement, the file was a long series of if / else blocks. It was clear that the development style was to just keep adding new things to the loop. There were, of course, no tests.

I asked the former CTO of the acquired company (now in a sales) why they went with Lua. His reply was something about how if Lua is good enough for fintech, it should be great for web services. He must have been good in the sales role, because when I learned how much our company paid to acquire this crappy Lua script, my jaw dropped.

Anyway, that’s all to say that in my sample size of 1, Luarocks has been the least painful part of Lua.

Not just blocking new marker changes. This paves the way to revoking any previously changed passport markers as well. Fuck.

It looks like the evolutionary advantage is still debated. There’s a newer hyopethsis that, because psilocybin evolved during a period of heightened gastropod diversity, it could be defence against snails.

Reminds me a bit of a previous campaign (not DnD). We (the party) spent so much time and attention murdering and threatening our way into a coup against the sickly King that we stopped paying attention to anyone else in the story.

Then in our campaign finale, we flub every single roll to execute the coup, and our whole plan gets hijacked by a more competent NPC to seize power for herself. Queue TPK* while we all get hunted down as traitors.

* Except for the party poisoner. He was happy to spend his life in prison so long as the new government let him brew poisons for use against enemies of the state.

When I was a student, my school had analog clocks that were synced via some electric system.

Enough ghost stories! They should open the sarcophagus immediately if there is any chance that it could save Grendel.

I wouldn’t think so. Isn’t bottles just an easier way to manage wine prefixes? If so, it doesn’t do anything to hide your Linux system from the executable.

Wine prefixes are not sandboxes. They are a way to separate the windows-level configuration for different programs (eg env vars, or drivers, etc).

Wine is a translation layer between a compiled windows binary and your Linux syscalls/libraries/device drivers/etc, nothing more.

Wine is not an emulator. It’s not sandboxed either. If you can do it as a user, a program running in wine can do it too.

There’s nothing stopping a piece of malware from crawling your disk for sensitive information, or encrypting your files for ransom.

Gary should learn about Lazy<T> and stop reinventing the wheel.

I put blame on any of his senior coworkers who didn’t use this as a teaching opportunity during PR.

All cops are bony

We’re posting pumpkussy?

This was from a few years ago.

Serious answer: ownCloud

I’m a fan of the ultimate non-maskable interrupt.

Everyone Nokia user knows that Space Impact was a better game than Snake

Is there a nuance to usage of the word hierarchy that I’m not understanding in this context?

Like if I invite a bunch of friends over to help me move into a new apartment, is there a hierarchy because I’m telling everyone where to put the boxes? If my pal Sarah drives a truck for work, so I entrust her to load the van with two other people, is that a hierarchy?

I’m not asking this to be a smartass, I’d just like to understand if there is a meaningful difference between hierarchy and deferring to someone’s skill in a particular domain.

There are some sites where Anubis won’t let me through. Like, I just get immediately bounced.

So RIP dwarf fortress forums. I liked you.

Yes! Thanks

Malware or not, remember to update WinRAR

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/high-severity-winrar-0-day-exploited-for-weeks-by-2-groups/

During a work presentation, an exec used the phrase “opening the kimono” in reference to showing business accounting books to potential investors. I had never heard it before, but my gut reaction was that it was some kind of prostitution/nudity reference, and kinda gross for a professional setting.

Maybe my mind is in the gutter, because allegedly it refers to a Japanese businessman coming home from work and wearing his kimono loosely to relax. Not really sure how that relates to transparent accounting practices.

Anyway, some words or phrases can be interpreted wrongly by others who have never heard them before. It’s not a reason to always ban them, but it does make sense to evaluate our language with outsider perspective in mind.

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