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This rant thread makes me wonder who is BEST at counteracting link rot for their own technical documentation. https://t.co/O0nqdqkb8y

I think The Open Group does a pretty great job with the POSIX docs. https://t.co/iLALrPagBn

Those docs are easy for me to find because I always get at them from the excellent https://t.co/NZ9MOkwRNR ... the site that makes me enjoy shell programming.

I was going to say "the talk is great too!" and link to https://t.co/SBRi9O14hr but, of course, the original URL of the talk is now a 404 :(

But fortunately it is on YouTube! https://t.co/VoqrsIDf1m If you write shell (or ever have to read it, lol) this talk is a really great resource.

... and when you go there today you are redirected (see‽ it's possible!) to a URL ending in "?view=azurermps-6.13.0&viewFallbackFrom=azurermps-5.0.0".

The docs for 5.0.0 are not still online, but the docs for 5.7.0 are. Kind of weird that it doesn't take you there instead of to the docs for 6.13.0, but I'll take it.

In fairness, I should note that the documentation for the AzureRM.KeyVault module that is also linked from the same answer is still good. They have a cool versioning system too, where my original link ended with "?view=azurermps-5.0.0"...

But the document still exists. And, as a nice improvement, the URL is much better today*. That's great! * If you're coming upon this tweet a week or more from now, believe me, there was content at the URL in this tweet at the time I tweeted it. https://t.co/dd4QT8wRWS

Would an HTTP 301 redirect have been so hard? (I'd link you to your own docs on these redirects, @Microsoft, but I figure by the time you read it the location may have changed.)

Nearly everything Microsoft has ever published changes its URL every year or three. A constant thorn under my fingernails.

Why can't @Microsoft keep technical documentation links from rotting? Four years is not *that* long, even online, yet the "Strongly Encouraged Development Guidelines" I linked to in this answer is totally gone https://t.co/ecrPWiA6pi

Whattttttt. I loved Control and I never noticed these, which align with my interests https://t.co/pnKs9Q3nyI https://t.co/nA5OtUCCVB

@whitequark Why doesn't Control let the player toggle in programs on the PDP-8 minicomputers? https://t.co/5TvErTCtpH

unrestrained gas cylinders i'm telling you!! they aren't appropriately labeled either. and where's the proof mark. why are you like this https://t.co/xIrGgVSnF4

Oh shit this is so cool. Really useful way to teach phonetics. (I miss linguistics a lot.) https://t.co/j7ryXsm641

you gotta restrain your cylinder. for safety

this game has -way- too many improperly restrained gas cylinders around

(it's from Superliminal)

beautiful https://t.co/2lrGE8RnPV

The Righteous Mind https://t.co/QNDo06t7bc https://t.co/FO8zBOXIbq

(I had hoped my wrists wouldn’t notice a little 90 minute exercise, and maybe I could sneak short stints in the cafe back into my regular life, but it looks like that still isn’t a great idea ☹️)

But today, it’s such a huge contrast to my Ergodox. I can type for 8+ hours on that thing with only a little occasional soreness.

I really wish there was a laptop that used a layout like the Ergodox, although given that tables are rarely at an ergonomic height and a laptop keyboard wouldn’t keep my hands shoulder-width apart, it might not help that much.

At the very least it would be nice to use the same keymap :)

(What was I doing on the QWERTY keyboard today? Working on something on my laptop in a cafe. I really miss doing that, but I haven’t been able to since before covid, because of wrist pain. I think it has probably been about 21 months since I did that, come to think.)

Goddamn. I just typed about 3300 words on a regular QWERTY keyboard, the most in over a year at this point. Right hand is cramping bad now.

I think part of this must be some way I’ve learned to hold my shoulder or arm, and/or move my hand. Certainly I’ve been able to do much more than this before without pain.

what's one book you adore that, if you learn someone else loves it, makes them your friend for life? (anyone who loves Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is automatically a kindred spirit.)

What's the collective human potential wasted on understanding how to manage disk arrays with MegaCli64? What percentage of GDP do we spend working with this tool?

@_joshuafonseca @ErgoDoxEZ I’d like that very much. I made a site for mine if you wanna see: https://t.co/8NjQvmCgsd

@_joshuafonseca @ErgoDoxEZ Very cool! That’s my experience too - was hesitant about getting one but it has basically eliminated pinky pain for me. Do you share your layout anywhere?

what's your evil job? like if you were Evil You, what unethical job would you excel at?

RT @armcannon: Last month I posted a meme of Monster Energy Pickles that someone photoshopped. My lovely friend Karen makes pickles and br…

This is really cool! Damn https://t.co/yAF5Yf24wT

OF COURSE politics. Would be cool if you had a slider for how incendiary to allow, but I’m skeptical the result would be very good (then again I’ve never worked on ML on any of these teams, prove me wrong pls)

Photos / videos of kids are similar. Oooh you know what would be better is if you could do this differently per follow, like wanting to see pics of kids in the family and friends’ pets, but not anyone else’s

My spiciest wish (which I placed in the middle of this thread on purpose) is pictures of animals being cute. I think there is no more banal boring content in all of online and the thing is I know this is an annoying opinion!!! If I could mute it quietly I would

Come to think of it keyword mutes aren’t a thing on fb anyway right? I can’t check I have archived my account

People taking about blocking someone or being blocked (hmm actually I could probably just keyword mute this, a bad example, brb)

Specific memes, like how great would it be if even a new image macro drops you could mute it after the first day, I can barely imagine the bliss 😌

Or textual joke formats. Sometimes this is doable with a keyword mute, but frequently there’s collateral damage to unrelated tweets

Thread of things that I wish there was a ML algo muting for me (mostly not feasible with keyword mutes, but theoretically possible with ML on the backend (Twitter/FB-side) or on the end-user’s device (Apple style)

RT @eigenrobot: @goblinodds an inbox is an attack surface on your attention

✍️ New interactive blog post ✨ How those "hashvatars" are made, using SVG, HSL colors, and a bit of maths. h/t to @wzulfikar for the name https://t.co/XdlardEFh4

@mubix Not sure if this counts as “general usage”, but having arrow keys available by pressing a modifier + WASD or IJKL is fantastically useful. Requires a weird keyboard tho. https://t.co/02Z2t31HLN

HMMMM https://t.co/Ki7couaCkH

Hmm https://t.co/rK6X5Y5YHD

What's one software/hardware general usage trick that you use nearly every day that you don't think many others use? Mine is the Quake-like "Hotkey Window" built into iTerm2. Not having to figure out which desktop that terminal window is on is life changing. What's yours?

Made a malware version lol https://t.co/tIfpneESrA https://t.co/Amo1H6XdQ6