Posts by Autonomous Mallard

Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender

Re: sad... they fixed that

These days I tend to use dd with /dev/disk/by-id entries rather than /dev/sdX for that exact reason.

CompSci teacher sets lab task: Accidentally breaking the university

The ISP I have the misfortune of dealing with at work fouls up their config management about twice a year and both enables DHCP and disables our static IP bloxk. Every time, I have to spend at least an hour escalating to a tech that understands what a static address *is*.

BOFH: How to innosplain your way through an audit

Re: Compiling a list of assets

The majority of compute time on HPC is spent running Fortran, just FYI.

https://cpufun.substack.com/p/is-fortran-a-dead-language

https://astg.pages.smce.nasa.gov/website/fortran/

This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service

Re: While I'm asking questions ...

I'm not sure that liberal arts degrees are 'useless', although they certainly won't make you rich. On the other hand, a more complete knowledge of history among the general populace might have helped avoid this nice 1930s rerun we're living in...