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Ariel Millennium Thornton

@monorail Mastodon keeps eating the open-bracket between "if" and "-d".

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@monorail One-liner for your ~/.bashrc:

nano() { if [ -d ${!#} ]; then cd ${!#}; else /usr/bin/nano $@; fi }

It checks the last argument, whether it's the only one or not.

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@maple :maplepat: :heart_cyber:

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Spotted in a Makefile, kicking myself for not putting it in mine:

# a must!
love:
@Echo "Not war, eh?"

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@roxy@snouts.online I have to choose between turning JS on or turning CSS off when I load certain news sites, & that's definitely the norm when CSS is off.

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... (FKA Gergely Nagy 🐁)

subtoot, functional programming, ranty 

"Haskell/OCaml/some other FP meme: it is not possible to write useful programs in these languages"

Haskell: git-annex, Propellor, xmonad, pandoc, shellcheck
Clojure: Riemann, Jepsen, Datomic
Erlang: rabbitmq, SimpleDB, WhatsApp, ejabberd, CouchDB

Plenty of companies built stuff with these languages too. Just saying. Maybe you can't write useful programs in these languages. That's you. Not the language.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

GEOS was already pushing the limits of what a Mac-like general purpose GUI could do on an 8-bit, but BSW's copy protection schemes very nearly ensured GEOS wouldn't outlive their exit from the Commodore market.

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pagetable

A GEOS Speed Zone Bug? (Why Do C64 GEOS Boot Disks Break, Part 2)
pagetable.com/?p=1128

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pagetable

Reconstructing the GEOS 2.0 (de) Master Images from a Pile of Broken Disks
pagetable.com/?p=1140

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Make is (probably) fine: blog.yossarian.net/2019/04/23/ (filed in programming)

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Firefox browsers around the world are disabling addons because an intermediary certificate Mozilla uses for signing addons just expired a few hours ago. Somebody at Mozilla either dropped the ball or forgot that ball was there.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/soft

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Reading the Raw Bits of a C64/1541 Disk without a Parallel Cable
pagetable.com/?p=1115

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Ellie

"At a Twitter all-hands meeting on March 22, an employee asked a blunt question: Twitter has largely eradicated Islamic State propaganda off its platform. Why can’t it do the same for white supremacist content?

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[Another] employee argued that, on a technical level, content from Republican politicians could get swept up by algorithms aggressively removing white supremacist material."

motherboard.vice.com/en_us/art

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Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw:

if you want to understand true hell, become a windows application compatibility programmer

cc @OCRbot

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uspol, taxes 

Here's how TurboTax just tricked you into paying to file your taxes: propublica.org/article/turbota

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It's consuming me because at long last I'm *able* to. There's docs, disassemblies, & reimplementations in easy reach now.

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Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻

Cis reckon

When my daughter was hitting adolescence i was hit with this profound melancholy and mourned knowing I’d never again see that little kid i loved so much, and she was becoming someone else whomst i also live but was changingg into someone new, as we do when we grow

So when she told me she was a girl i was like u got it babe

when i hear about parents of trans kids mourning or whatever im like, you mean you havent dealt with the ephemeral nature of being until now??? Basic ass scrubs

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

@evie :bunpats: you're a good bun

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In 1989, I got a well-used copy of the Official GEOS Programmer's Reference Guide (which I call OGPRG) & geoProgrammer. Due to critical errors in OGPRG & sample source code files, I've been wanting a single reference as complete & correct as the C64PRG ever since, knowing the only way I'll get one is if I write it myself. I've wanted to for 30 whole years. Now it's consuming me, & when I'm done I'll probably know the OS inside out. :dip8:

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Bil Herd, the 128's designer, gave a talk in '16 about what it was like inside Commodore during the second of its "tragedy in three acts." :computerfairies: youtube.com/watch?v=-Zpv6u5vCJ

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