TheWoozy

joined 2 years ago
[–] TheWoozy 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In the early 90s at the dawn of my programing/sysadmin career. I showed up to my first week of work at "Initech" in dress pants, shirt, and tie. The senior gray beard UNIX sysadmin wore wholey jeans and ratty t-shirts. I don't recall whether he sat me down and told me, or I figured it out on my own that to be taken seriously in a technical field you must dress down. Brilliant people look disheveled (see Albert Einstein, Steve Wozniak, et al). I ditched the stupid tie & began dressing more comfortably.

Anthropologists call this antagonistic aculturation. Us IT geeks intentionally set our selves apart from the business drones & we had to exercise our privilege of dressing comfortabley while working ungodly hours to solve impossible problems.

Now I'm the gray beard and I've mentoed the brighter of the pimple faced youths I've hired in the ancient customs of our tribe. Looking back, It seems that IT's greatest influence on business has not been the increased efficiency of the paperless office, but the casual attire that most office workers now enjoy.

You're welcome, world.

[–] TheWoozy 15 points 1 year ago
[–] TheWoozy 1 points 1 year ago

I installed ubuntu on my workstation in 2013 and have upgraded the OS since. I've swapped out the motherboard and added 5 drives in raid6. The thing morphed from a desktop into a server over the years. The only original HW is the case (power supply died a few years ago). I never really concidered wiping & installing a new OS.

[–] TheWoozy 3 points 1 year ago

No fruit is better than mangos.

[–] TheWoozy 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

On my phone both lines are the same color.

[–] TheWoozy 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mines? No, they are needed for the "special military operation".

[–] TheWoozy 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Putin seems to be in a competition with Trump for the stupidest authoritarian prize.

[–] TheWoozy 6 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't mix 5400 rpm drives with 7200 rpm drives, but if the rpm & sizes are the same, there won't be any measurable performance loss.

[–] TheWoozy 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actors usually pay for professional dialect coaching. Before the practice became common place it was amusing to watch British actors play Americans using terrible accents. I know it applies the other way around, but I'd have a harder time noticing it.

[–] TheWoozy 6 points 1 year ago

"Can this thing magnify smells too?"

[–] TheWoozy 13 points 1 year ago

Please don't put the punchline in the title.

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