Next step is to get Doom working on it :-)

Seems to have worked well enough for Backblaze for years and years now. Another major vendor publicly announcing that make X model Y has shitty reliability is as much pressure on the storage duopoly as we're likely to get.

I'll quite often wind up solving this by a sort of parallel construction, as in rather than getting the hint I can work out what word is supposed to be there based on what's around it. Some of the clues can be really cryptic.

Yes, that is the real trick when you get stuck is to start constructing the clues that it will eventually become.

> Planes that first flew over 30 years ago.

The F-35 first flew eighteen years ago, so this isn't quite the dunk you think it is. Both the Rafale and Typhoon have continued to get upgrades in avionics and engines.

Same, and now I'm still playing Elite but just with slightly better graphics :-D

> Maybe the EU forced all cars to have the same charger

CCS2/Type-2 were adopted as EU standards with enforcement to start this year, although it sounds like it's more of a "the charger must have this, but can have others".

BSE makes me think of Mad Cow Disease [1], quite the bull market.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopat...

Though I would think that India would be the least likely to have any of this type of BSE due to their reverence for the cow. It works out for them as a cultural inoculation against an insidious affliction.

A chunk of the federal employee base will have something like "LTC" or "Dr." in front of their name, which again confers no indication of gender or preferred pronoun.

Mr. Bob French Fries, M.D., Ph.D

People should do what they want with pronouns in email signatures. But I don’t understand why you can’t string these together.

I don’t understand why you’re going through all these weird lengths to solve a problem that pronouns more optimally solve and cover more use cases (e.g. nonbinary people).

Sounding pretentious (for one's own tastes) is a perfectly defensible reason not to do this. I don't know anyone who enjoys Mr/Ms/Mrs.

Right, I misread this part. I thought the pretentious part was using your titles in your name. Not the Mr/Mrs thing. Oh well.

I see no difference in pretentiousness between the two styles.

Sure, but it's not your name.

As an example (the DoD has almost 2 million personnel on active duty/reserve/guard), "Capt. J Bond USN".

One I've heard a lot from boomers is:

"Mr. Doe is my father. Call me John"

And yes, even the 70 year olds still do this around me, and yes, I find it really weird too.

Having just updated a project to use a newer version of the OpenSAML libs, this x1000. How something so fundamental can be so badly implemented (and documented!) is just mind-blowing.

Yet there will still be comments asking why IPv8 can't be IPv4 with another few sets of digits tagged onto the end, as if that would somehow be compatible with the current implementation of IPv4.

I swear it is easier to argue with flat earthers than with people who want IPv4 but with more addresses.

I just hope that by making the joke, I won't accidentally make fetch happen :-D