From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: steffen@sdaoden.eu (Steffen Nurpmeso) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 18:24:12 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Code bloat (was: How Unix brings people together, or it's a small...) In-Reply-To: <20170209164953.GQ25691@mcvoy.com> References: <20170208025538.GE65698@eureka.lemis.com> <20170209163658.GO25691@mcvoy.com> <20170209164953.GQ25691@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <20170209172412.se1JH%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Larry McVoy wrote: |Exactly. I live in the Santa Cruz mountains, which is awesome (well, ... |quite remote, we have a mountain lion that comes through here nightly That is pretty cool! Some are still alive!! |(I know because I lost a dog to it and they showed me the radio collar That is .. not so cool. There is quite some sympathy from Darmstadt, Germany. (But, mind you, these are all street pissers!) |tracking, on a map it looks like someone took a pencil and scribbled |back and forth as hard as they could through our place). | |In spite of that, I'm typing away to you all, I'm 3ms away from 8.8.8.8 |(Google's dns server). Go wireless. It's pretty remarkable to be here |and have decent net connectivity. America is first world. This statement declassifies most of Germanies countryside as second world, at maximum. I for one am happy if i get a constant stream equivalent to ISDN. In the outer region of a city in one of the richest parts of Germany, that is. --steffen