| ▲ | bcantrill 3 days ago |
| I do take a perverse kind of pride that this can now be said without any explicit reference -- and everyone knows you're talking about the lawnmower. |
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| ▲ | Verdex 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Whenever the lawnmower thing comes up, I try to also mention dtrace. As far as things to be remembered for, they make some strange bedfellows... although it's better than anything I've managed so I guess congrats. |
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| ▲ | mwcampbell 3 days ago | parent [-] | | DTrace was absolutely a product of pre-Oracle Sun, not Oracle. | | |
| ▲ | Verdex 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Hey friend, check the user name of the person I'm responding to (and perhaps check out the people responsible for dtrace and larry ellison lawnmower comparisons). I might appear more coherent afterwards. | | | |
| ▲ | charcircuit 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's not like Sun wasn't also lawyer heavy. |
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| ▲ | oblio 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Hey, at least it's better than your other one. https://landley.net/history/mirror/linux/kissedagirl.html |
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| ▲ | bcantrill 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | For whatever it's worth (perhaps not much?), I was actually asked about this three-decade-old post (!) recently on the Peterman Pod[0], which allowed for a slightly more nuanced discussion. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhSL-5GtmQM&t=3757s | | |
| ▲ | gravypod 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I really can't think of a better way to respond to this situation. It is clear to me that over the next decade the amount of people who will have been hot-headed kids on the internet who grow up to fully-fledged adults who have said they no longer agree with things in ways that are not kind is going to be a lot higher. I've no doubt said things that I no longer agreed with that made sense in the context of when they were posted. Thank you for being a good role model and setting the example that saying "that was bad, here is the context, but I don't like that I said that." | |
| ▲ | smarks 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Oh! This is a great explanation, thanks. I remember your original exchange (and
I found it baffling and uncharacteristic), and I remember the William Shatner SNL Trek convention sketch, but I never made the connection between them. | |
| ▲ | oblio 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah, I know, I think you were 25 or something back then :-) | | |
| ▲ | bcantrill 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I was 22! (I was only slightly older than my oldest kid is now!) So... yeah. May your mistakes at 22 not follow you around at age 52! |
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| ▲ | bombcar 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I forgot how much I hated the mixture of top and bottom quoting |
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| ▲ | secstate 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Outside of 90s television, this might be the most universal reference I have in my life. |
