Post B5lEUW5IoMqfO9Tn9c by sennoma@chaos.social
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 (DIR) Post #B5l7SSoBK0QgyAXsZM by mwl@io.mwl.io
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       Me: I could just add more HTTP redirects to redirect the redirects to the redirected--Also me: You're an idiot. You know that, don't you? One redirect at most, you dumbass. #sysadmin
       
 (DIR) Post #B5l8PMVgNlaQWLyflA by glent@aus.social
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       @mwl As an Australian with a 220ms round-trip time to US east coast websites, thank you.$ ping www.duke.edu64 bytes from 152.3.72.243: icmp_seq=1 ttl=248 time=219 ms
       
 (DIR) Post #B5l9smacb7Mbl1seNE by mwl@io.mwl.io
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       Me: "While I'm reorganizing my web site, I should add a category for Spite Books. That would be fun!"Also me: "You already have a page listing all your books, dumbass."Me: "But--"Also me: <hard look>Me: (sigh) "Fine. Fair point."
       
 (DIR) Post #B5lA8FLtwQPTJ5Mw4W by mwl@io.mwl.io
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       hmmm... I could add an entry to my SNMP MIB to rank books by spite level...
       
 (DIR) Post #B5lAkSzVgGiAbx7WD2 by log@mastodon.sdf.org
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       @mwl You'd have to write a book explicitly spite-free, just to show all those other books how it's supposed to be done, and then... oh.  That would just be to spite yourself, wouldn't it?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5lCejpoLN5r1NyofQ by mwl@io.mwl.io
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       @log there is no escape from spite
       
 (DIR) Post #B5lD01YldZmU4m9qMa by mwl@io.mwl.io
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       @nuintari @log truthfully, I don't know how I would complete the mechanical process of putting words on paper without Spite Drive.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5lDDdQSAEcXHOl7a4 by log@mastodon.sdf.org
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       @mwl @nuintari More powerful than bistromathics but most people can't abide the aftertaste.  Those people can screw off--slowly--at an inferior multiple of lightspeed.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5lEUW5IoMqfO9Tn9c by sennoma@chaos.social
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       @mwl Spite is an underappreciated force in human affairs. I'd probably be dead without it, and I certainly wouldn't have finished school.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5lXuLbuH5vbYtlDge by JebelKrong@social.linux.pizza
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       @mwl maybe a filter or a tag? :)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ltLYmfVAi7H7byTY by agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social
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       @mwl Well, the Fundamental Theorem of Software Engineering is: "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection."So I think you're on the right path.  ;)