BRK and indirection inform me how strace and debugging work. It might even explain why only one user can strace at once (I might be naive in this respect).

Different empire.

Let's start with h CTRL-F and work down...

It's two effs init?

Flags. More flags.

I googled about that covered walkway for trolley users at a Bude supermarket, and a certain review site has been emailing me once a week asking when I'm going to bloody Bude.

I feel a film coming on.

It might be a cunning plan to keep all the numpties in one room.

Damn. What's the dog going to have?

You needed the bash to know the awk. Bit like using Windows to know you needed *nix.

I was on the cough syrup diet once. Lost three days.

(With thanks to one Tpr. T. F. Cooper)

I think he played a French police officer in The Saint.

Fab. So lucky with the water. You didn't bring some olive oil with you? 😃

You're going to regret skimping on the coffee making kit.

We should teach more of this electrical stuff to produce better engineers - to bridge the gap of that naive stuff in school (nice square waves marching as binary numbers down wires) to real scope traces of balanced signals with resilient encoding. It is, after all, rocket science.

Not to say the problem has already been fixed, but boring things like a judicial system that is resourced to work, an asylum system that is resourced to work could be cheaper and less disruptive than pulling new nonsense out of a hat.

Steganographic. Doh!

It's actually a stenographic ciphertext holding half a 2048 bit private key. You have to wait for a second comment to get the other half to unlock access to a GitHub account. It's a test.

The newspaper is almost certainly paid for by the time it hits the shelves (I used to sell them SOR). Two things will make them sit up - circulation figures and advertising revenue.

Yeah - don't be tight, get at least 3 red peppers.

Slightly related - PostScript is a "complete" language. I worked with a guy who'd render ASIC performance charts in hand written PostScript. I miss the dot-com bubble - I met a few eccentric guys.

These engineering samples must have cost $000s.

I'm reflecting on the fact that in these troubled times, the bad-taste song "Hitler Rap" from To Be Or Not To Be is as far removed from today as the material was from the regime it referred to. It is still in bad taste. Quite funny though.

It's reflection. The left spend all their time nit-picking policy and personalities of the right (who care less about what the great unwashed think about their optics and party as a whole) that in their attempt to be coherent and pure fail to be both. Relax FFS and just go and do good.

Groan

I once debugged a network outage that recovered just after 17 minutes. Always have a programmer's calculator on standby.

Actually about six minutes past nine on 1st January 1970.

"Neither will I be raising the subject of the colour of my foundation garments in any further discourse".

I feel your pain.

Doesn't everyone do this already?

Robert Chulmleigh-Warner,
1 Railway Cottages,
Surbiton