I become suspicious when I see a Medium user posting well-written deep articles as frequently as this user appears to be doing. How can we tell whether this is AI slop or not?

In America, you pay for app. In Soviet Russia, app pays for you!

I'm similarly skeptical it's a genuine outage given how so much stuff nowadays is done with cloud computing which enables dynamic on-demand procurement of server resources. Or whatever the correct terminology is to describe that.

• is an all-around cool, intelligent person and unquestionably punk

Schools could have used that time they were "teaching" the Office suite to give an introduction to unix, programming, and the basics of how the internet functions. I had to read and analyze Beowulf, Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Homer and memorize the names and formulas of 33 polyatomic ions. Computing education to the same depth should have been and should be required as it was required for the other subjects.

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Ha, lamers. A true wizard writes their assignments in roff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Mail_routing

I see your satirical IPv6 meme and raise you the highest quality IPv6 evangelism you'll ever see.

There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.