Lyle Seaman

networking, security infra and filesystems kernel hacker turned application programmer, SRE and engineering manager, Lyle traded tilting at windmills for viking at Vikings but couldn't catch any.

Aug 2024

Coast Star

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On a vacation trip this week. The diligent will be able to discover the location with a tiny bit of sleuthing, but I won't be there now.

An anonymous traveler reports "I've been trying to contact them but I don't think they check their email very often."


Forsooth

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Elte Hupkes "Some weird Android behavior has my phone disconnecting from WiFi until I open it back up in the morning, triggering some backups. Unfortunately, WhatsApp Backup isn't a morning person."


Epic

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"Grocery stores are going too far with their energy foods" charged Tim DG. "I was just looking for some salads to go with my BBQ," he complained. "I'm not sure they sell what I'm looking for." I've seen what your kin put in their Huzarensaladen, Tim, so I'm not entirely surprised about the Duracells.


The State of the Arts

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Daniel D. humblebrags that he can spell. "Ordering is easy, but alphabet is hard. Anyway for this developer it was. Can anyone spot which sorting algo they used?" Next he'll probably rub it in that he can actually read unlike the TDWTF staff. I guess we'll never know.


Planing ahead

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Yes, the title misspelling was an intentional attempt at punnery. It's a compulsion, I'm sorry.

I might have advised Adam R. not to try to plan flights 4 years in advance, if asked. But he didn't ask, and so he discovered this. I'll let Adam explain.
"I was looking at flights to a certain town in eastern Western Australia. (I'm planning ahead for the July 2028 solar eclipse.) A popular travel website informed me that this evening flight across the border from Northern Territory was an overnight flight. Yes, the time zones in Australia are weird, with a 90-minute difference between WA and NT, but a westbound flight that lands before it takes off should not be an unexpected edge case. "