I do take a perverse kind of pride that this can now be said without any explicit reference -- and everyone knows you're talking about the lawnmower.
replyWhenever the lawnmower thing comes up, I try to also mention dtrace. As far as things to be remembered for, they make some strange bedfellows... although it's better than anything I've managed so I guess congrats.
replyDTrace was absolutely a product of pre-Oracle Sun, not Oracle.
replyHey friend, check the user name of the person I'm responding to (and perhaps check out the people responsible for dtrace and larry ellison lawnmower comparisons). I might appear more coherent afterwards.
replyYeah, I see what you mean now. Sorry.
replyIt's not like Sun wasn't also lawyer heavy.
replyOutside of 90s television, this might be the most universal reference I have in my life.
replyHey, at least it's better than your other one.
replyFor whatever it's worth (perhaps not much?), I was actually asked about this three-decade-old post (!) recently on the Peterman Pod[0], which allowed for a slightly more nuanced discussion.
replyI forgot how much I hated the mixture of top and bottom quoting
replyThe lawnmower does not have feedback, it does not stop just because it encounters human flesh.
replyI’m currently moving my personal VPS to Oracle Cloud (for a couple of reasons). The new machine’s host name is lawnmower. I have never been so decisive and satisfied in naming a computer.
replyfresh spring grass erupting fast
replythe distant engine purr comes
ouch goes the lawnmower
Beautiful. How did you come up with that? It's strangely captivating.
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replylawnmower don’t give a fuuuuuck
replyoh my god… we thought anthropomorphizing “the computer”, was the problem, when it was anthropomorphizing the principals all along… (yes, i know that is the joke you made, but it was so incredibly appropos that i felt the need to comment to register my amusement / sadness / ¿)
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