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Why is water wet? Why did Judas rat to Romans while Jesus slept? -- gza

Good memories. Thank you zsKnight, wherever you are.

Possibility to evolve ability to utilise cosmic mycelial network for fast travel?

That was some brilliant footie!

Great little tutorial and a lovely trip down memory lane!

Love this story! I had a similar experience, in that Summer '96 my work experience placement was an IT dept at a London hospital, and they had all manner of Sun SPARC stations and DEC Alpha boxes. After the 2 week placement (my sole task was to learn how to install Red Hat 3.0.3 (Picasso!) on a spare PC they had), they gave me the Infomagic Linux Developer's Resource as a gift, and I then spent another month getting it working on my Packard Bell PC ;-D. Anyway, having discovered Phrack magazine I found reference to the Cuckoo's Egg, and my local library carried it. It's still, to this day, the only book I've devoured in just over one day - and probably the only time I've ever hit flow state while reading. It was an amazing read - thank you, Cliff!

Great additional info - I will look into these things in more depth, thank you.

I’ve had great success with N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC) which brings glutamate back into balance with GABA [1]. The upshot of this is, it’s reduced my binge-like behaviours massively, although I’m slightly more anhedonic than before.. or maybe just balanced now. Also clears the chest very rapidly. YMMV.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6182588/

I am wondering, did you ever look at tuning MALLOC_ARENA_MAX? This sort of constant consumption of memory is fairly well aligned to the default tuning of MALLOC_ARENA_MAX, which is 8 * nproc.

We've just tuned it for a java-based app which was also stuck in OOMkill hell, and this has completely resolved the situation (MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=2).

Same story here - 1998, teenager, unable to understand socket programming until I came across Beej’s guide at CSU Chico. Thank you Beej!

Avoiding the p1ssing contest is very important, as well as ensuring we don't have egotistical a-holes interviewing.

In a role we're currently interviewing for, we intentionally ask deep-dive style questions. We first explain our approach by telling the candidate we don't necessarily care about the answer; we seek to assess aptitude, rather than ability, and so we ask the candidate to be as vocal as possible to display their reasoning. So far, it has helped us narrow-down the pool to two promising candidates. Of course, we also mention in the interview that, "we'd make liberal use of google, and we understand that most other people would too" - but some of our better interviews have turned into pleasant, fruitful technical discussions, and not just a back-and-forth "pub quiz". Just my $0.02.

Uncle Rico can finally go back and take State.

Clarke Griswold invented this first.

41 years old is also young!

And for those that cannot have children due to infertility? Our 4th and final IVF cycle just failed, so we have to find alternative meaning somehow.

I love this story, even more so that my wife and I this very week are embarking on our 4th and final IVF cycle. Hopeful stories inspire.

I found myself reading the very first sentence in Brian Cox's voice - anyone else?

This guy seems higher than me right now.. and that’s saying something.

Just to second what this good person here has said. Having suffered with substance abuse myself, it truly is inspiring to follow your accomplishments Andreas! I love that your hostname is 'courage', and like my fellow poster here, Serenity makes a lot of sense. Much strength to others having walked/still walking on a dark path.

I used to see these occasionally on the road in Switzerland and often would drive behind them, as they were naturally a lot slower on the open road than most cars.

I am in exactly (from what I understand from your summary) the same position, and I think I feel your pain. I've been/was a UNIX sysadmin from mid 90s to a few years ago, when DevOps took over. Somehow, I just feel like the "good old days" are long-gone, the "identity" of hacker too, and I see many young (I am 42) engineers starting out and really relishing their work. I wish I could have that hunger again, but I am just more interested in sitting idle and "mourning" the past. I also have a counselor, have been a practitioner of mindfulness/meditation for years, etc; I have the tools to apparently cope with this situation, but something fundamental has fled, I fear.

Congrats! I lost my virginity to a woman I met on IRC. Sounds less romantic than your story, but I loved her very much. I mourn those days, 1998-2000 on dalnet.

"Was that the primary buffer panel?"