When something goes wrong, the surrounding supporting infrastructure must suddenly accept a new load.
Stderr
All the unbuffered error messages
When something goes wrong, the surrounding supporting infrastructure must suddenly accept a new load.
2019 looks like it’s going to be a good year for drinking games.
In my recent posting about Glamour Bees[stderr], I mentioned that it’s a good idea to plan for what happens if your free photo hosting service decides to change their business model, as photobucket did. Astute Commentariat(tm) member Jenna K. pointed out that I appear prescient.
This inaugurates a category for this blog, titled, “another dead oligarch.” Hopefully it will see a certain amount of activity, since oligarchs tend (by their nature!) to be old. Unless you’re born with the magic god-mode code, you’ve got to spend a few years using daddy’s money to climb over the mounded corpses of your inferiors.
As you probably recall, I am not a fan of Psychology. It too often relies on naming things and passing the name off as an explanation for the thing. It’s simple appellomancy [oglaf] – names have power.
I wasn’t sure how to approach [stderr]. Serious, or silly? Here’s the silly version:
According to Pagetutor, this is what $1Bn looks like, if you palletize it: [page]
Leaders of the world, you must lead. The continuation of our civilizations and the natural world on which they depend – is in your hands.
[Warning: Bees] [Is Apiphobia a thing? I’m going to assume it is]
This is via Atlas Obscura, which is a must-read if you’re a nexus of weirdness. [atl]
It’s fascinating to see the different ways that the “trade truce” is being reported. It also scares me because it illustrates how unquestioningly the press reports from government-issued press releases.