My mother’s fucking feral cat.

Yeah, it flipped out about 5 min before this pic and the hand is all bite-marks. Yeah, I’ve had cats all my life; even pure siamese cats, with nary a worry. We went directly to the A&E from there, and a quick few hours later got some “lift off and nuke it from orbit” kind of antibiotics and antiprotozoans; and while I was aggressively ill for about a day from the meds to save my ballooning hand from the bone-deep punctures laden with bacteria and protozoa, I’m all good now but for the permanent scars to my hand, wrists and soul.

Fucking cat. And I love cats, but that fucking cat.

Terrorists killing terrorists

These are the terrorists killing anyone standing around people the terrorists don’t like. During a funeral.

I am starting to love them

Be careful whom you worship.

Based

On second thought, you’ll be onto some new fad in a day.

give a user an option to easily open such in the same tab/window.

I am not sure where the ‘option’ (ie ‘optional’) part got lost in the logic here.

tight-packed schedules

Extra hardware.

Not something sitting there hot and ready to go, but there to take the place of the flight. Maintain a one-unit queue of planes ready to board and launch so that each and every plane sits for 2 hours and is actually prepped.

Or, when that inevitable daily breakage happens and a plane needs to be taken off the line for the day, it allows time to bring in another spare to keep that queue full (of 1) when the rotation loses that active plane.

there was nothing they could do

I’m willing to bet ‘showing basic humanity’ was an available option the flight crew was just unable to consider.

Pierre will tell us we’re still over-funded and his rich friends should pay even less taxes than the pittance they’re paying now.

With no extra airplanes, they probably don’t have time.

Again, the problem comes down to no extra equipment; even when it would give them the lag time to properly clean between departures at no added hw maintenance or aircrew costs.

Agreed. We’ve had just so many experiences of negligence and apathy from Air Canada that we’ve given up on them and also consider them an airline of last resort. We’ll move dates and locations to open up other options before considering them, as well, and even reconsider just not going.

Great news for Air Canada is that Westjet got bought and declined sharply since then, so they’re only much better than Air Canada instead of being in a different category completely as before.

Now do ‘home and native land.’

if they didn’t kick the cow and spoil that milk like they’ve kicked every cow before it

I miss Cringely’s take on this.

dairy subsidies

Do you mean Canada’s dairy supply management system?

That article is definitely not a Neutral Point of View!

About 80% savage, that one, and almost as scathing as required. People need to be answering hard questions about this one for years.

Docker has an additional issue, but not one unique to docker. Like flatpak, pip, composer, npm or even back to cpan and probably further, as a third-party source of installed software, it breaks single-source of truth when we want to examine the installed-state of applications on a given host.

I’ve seen iso27002/12.2.1f, I’ve seen supply-chain management in action to massive benefit for uptime, changes, validation and rollback, and it’s simplified the work immensely.

    .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.6.3

If anyone remembers dependency hell - which is always self-inflicted - then this should be Old Hat.

HAVING SAID THAT, I’ve seen docker images loaded as the entire, sole running image, apparently over a razor-thin bmc-sized layer, on very small gear, to wondrous effect. But - and this is how VMware did it - a composed bare micro-image with Just Enough OS to load a single container on top, may not violate 27002 in that circumstance.