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Organizing cassette software in WAV files so I can load programs on stock 1981 computers from stock 2018 smartphones. Actually using them feels like using a magic fairy wand, but don't unplug the cord or you'll let out all the magic screeches.

INFOHAZARD WARNING 

@troubleMoney It's even worse than that. Someone actually ripped it & uploaded it to YT, & I just finished scanning it. There are only three frames of actual elf bowling shown in the entire 82 minutes of movie, & the first was accidental by the antagonist.

Now I'm troubleshooting a laptop keyboard. Among the unresponsive keys: the one that gives BIOS settings access during POST.

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I can only hope to someday close nested blocks with that degree of both seriousness and frivolity.

coworker : Do you have any time to -

me : SHUT UP LET ME WORK

also me :

@maple mov cx,friends
hugfriends:
hug [cx]
dec cx
hopnz hugfriends
pet

gender reveal parties, doing crimes 

@ellied Any points for getting the color to set something on fire before the color is recognized?

Back to repairing the HP laptop. How worried should I be that a replacement CPU has used thermal paste on it that was never cleaned off? It's an AMD.

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That SuperCPU I stumbled across sold for $2,524, more than 12 times its original retail price. That's absurd.

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$ find $HOME -mtime -1w -size +100M -ls
983935 732401 -rw------- 1 arielmt arielmt 1015803904 Sep 26 19:40 /home/arielmt/firefox.core.onegig
954267 172089 -rw------- 1 arielmt arielmt 311705600 Sep 28 11:56 /home/arielmt/firefox.core
$

find /home -mtime -1 -size +100M -ls # Try to figure out what recently used file might have just filled up the /home partition by finding files modified in the last day that are larger than 100M just to narrow it down.

@maple I got that once, too, & IDR if it was because of curl or wget.

@monorail I have so many questions about your teacher, and I fear I know the answers to them all. :<

@monorail not to mention being off by about 2-3 decades inre cobol & other early structured languages.

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