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For those who don't know... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooooooo

...wrong thread, or am I missing some reference here?

Mitch Approved™

The next crowdstrike mistake could happen at any time...

Sounds like the tagline to an action movie.

At least you're not forcibly relocated to that hood. And it can have some pretty adorkable little neighbors!

I mean I drink oatmilk, and I think it'd be perfectly reasonable to say "milk-inspired drink," but yeah... looking at the ingredients I'd stick to guac or plain avocados, unless cash is real tight.

I'm sure there are, but they were not available at Jumbo (or any of the other stores I went to). In the US, I generally find them at any store I go to (a long with JIF, etc. of course) --- I never have to "look hard enough" to find it.

This was a decade ago, so perhaps things changed.

CrowdStrike incident happened too soon. Could have made serious money...

"...today is opposite day."

This was my biggest complaint about an abroad stint in the Netherlands --- all the peanut butter* was JIF style/huge ingredient list. Agree completely --- only acceptable ingredients are peanuts and salt.

The beer wasn't all my style, but I could certainly appreciate it.

*"pindakaas" literally "peanut cheese," I think because "butter" is reserved for dairy products.

Colloquially, I'd use it to mean "requires physical access to fix."

protected

Um, about that...

Yeah, something this big is absolutely not one engineer's fault. Even if that engineer maliciously pushed an update, it's not their fault --- it was a complete failure of the organization, and one person having the ability to wreck havoc like this is the failure.

And I actually have some amount of hope that, in this case, it is being recognized as such.

My Debian system was bricked when it "upgraded" to systemd.

Required attaching a monitor to a normally headless server to fix. (Turns out systemd treats fstab differently and can hang booting if USB drive isn't attached.)

Steam, a 3rd party program, has nuked the home directory of users who didn't really do anything wrong.

Programs have huge abilities to bork systems, be it Windows or Linux...

Wonder how many shell scripts written on that OS are still in use today...

For me, a hurdle to get over was trying to understand in the context of my experience of the world. Like, popsci has this whole "is X a wave or a particle? Scientists still don't know..." schtick. And our understanding at some level is, "here's the math to describe this system."

Getting away from always mapping that onto the world we experience is, IMHO, really important. Not that it should be understood solely as math, by any means! But you really need to throw away intuition gained from the macroscopic world we interact with.

My favorite example was looking at reflection coefficients and seeing that an "infinite wall" is the same as an "infinite cliff" --- you'll reflect off of both. Which makes zero sense if you imagine driving a bumper car into a wall (bounce back) vs. over an infinite cliff! But it does me make sense in its own way, and after building up intuition, so do other "weird" and counterintuitive things.

Prickly pear cactus are called tuna (maybe just in Spanish?) --- I wouldn't want to confuse tuna fish with tuna fruit...

Also, I think tuna fish refers to certain preparation, e.g., as used in a tuna fish sandwich. This is in contrast to sushi ("tuna roll") or a tuna steak, which typically don't have the "fish" qualifier.

*The data do not lie

(I know, it's acceptable to use it as is done in the title, but the cartoon dude seemed to me the sort of fellow who might have opinions about the Latin roots of words and whatnot.)

Upvote if good, downvote if bad.

But what do I do for MEDIOCRE content?

That's what I love about these sapling trees, man. I get older, they stay the same age.