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  • Henryhl@social.lol
    Jun 24, 2026, 7:49 AM

    I'm in a training most of today. Getting to watch the instructors struggle to answer the random, mostly unrelated, questions from the audience is always awkward.

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  • Brian Nicarwendigo@metalhead.club
    Jun 24, 2026, 8:24 AM

    @hl Do you break through the littany of madness and absurdity with your own very pertinet, insightful, and interesting question... ;>)

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  • Henryhl@social.lol
    Jun 24, 2026, 9:09 AM

    @wendigo I try. But likely the other attendees are thinking "What an absurd and irrelevant question".

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  • Danrtfm@social.lol
    Jun 24, 2026, 9:47 AM

    @hl I particularly enjoy* the questions from the audience about something that was already explained.

    *want to murder when I hear

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  • Danrtfm@social.lol
    Jun 24, 2026, 9:52 AM

    @robb @hl 💯

    The “I know this is irrelevant to most of the people here and I could discuss this properly later with the correct audience but I want people to notice me” crowd

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  • Robb Knightrobb@social.lol
    Jun 24, 2026, 9:54 AM

    @rtfm @hl We had a lecture at the start of the final year of uni where they went over a bunch of boring stuff everyone already knew about grades, etc (such is academia) and the person who was always the one doing that asked a useless question, the lecturer made a sarcastic comment about him always asking stuff and he stormed out.

    It was beautiful.

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  • Robb Knightrobb@social.lol
    Jun 24, 2026, 9:58 AM

    @rtfm @hl This was a decade ago and I still think about it sometimes.

    The people saying "Bye Felicia" as he walked down the fairly long lecture hall it even better.

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  • Danrtfm@social.lol
    Jun 24, 2026, 10:41 AM

    @bendaubney @robb @hl And those who wait until the meeting host says “so unless there are any more questions, we can wrap it up there” to ask a question are all going straight to The Bad Place.

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  • Henryhl@social.lol
    Jun 24, 2026, 2:59 PM

    @rtfm @bendaubney @robb Today's training is now complete, and I have learnt something, more than I wanted, about Splunk's Search Processing Language, which has a syntax that is the mutant offspring of:

    • Naïve text search
    • SQL
    • Regex
    • Shell output piping, and
    • Matplotlib

    My only question, well more an observation, would have been "Is it really cursed, or does it only look that way?".

    But I didn't 'ask' that because I have some sense of social responsibility.

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  • Ben Daubney :prami:bendaubney@social.lol
    Jun 24, 2026, 3:39 PM

    @hl @rtfm @robb Long long ago I did some market research for Splunk. I think they were just as confused about their amalgamation of ideas as anyone else.

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  • Henryhl@social.lol
    Jun 24, 2026, 4:23 PM

    @bendaubney @rtfm @robb Totally. It feels like a classic example of being a good idea for one thing, and then having forever 'just one more thing' tacked onto it with zero over all plan, and you end up with a complete mess.

    This is also my main criticism of the *nix shell programming 'language'.

    (Apologists will quickly point out it's not actually a programming language, but rather just a series of commands to redirect and control other programmes. They're not wrong, but I also don't think that's a winning argument against the point that it's obtuse and consists mostly of unexpected foot rakes.)

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