Talking backwards from the year 4000. (Old person waves stick at cloud-servers)

[hirez]

After I posted a two-sentence rant on a friend's FB, I had to stop and think.

Thought one was that all of Rupert's actual friends (ie - not some mental ex-goth failing to make it as a SF writer because interesting computer things and uninteresting life things keep happening, that he last spoke to at least twenty years ago) will consider me a drive

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[d_floorlandmine]

I think I followed that - and, if I did, I understand some of the levels of frustration!

[quercus]

Is any shell script that involves && simply an unwarranted expression of faith in the reliability of computers at their shonkiest, during the freshly-pupated wing-drying stage after a new install?

[jarkman]

I think there's a homoeostasis at work, with every effort to make computers better or more fancy being done only just well enough, because that means the work can be released sooner.

Hence, computing will always be crappy, but not quite crappy enough to be entirely useless.

[hsb]

This certainly matches my user experience.

Mind, our set up is complicated by regulators deciding to add random extra requirements at irregular intervals. So if Region=this, then use this publishing system, and ensure these 16 items are in place, and that they feed through to inexplicable second version of same text in slightly different format in this way. If Sector=that, then ensure these 24 items are done this way, oh and you will need to display data tables that were never part of this article type. Oh, and if region=this and sector=that, some items will clash, but do the best you can to get 16+24 items in place.

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