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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Remember the lobster from the GEOS demo? It apparently has a hidden history, only a part of which was ever revealed: "[...] been multiplying so fast we've had to build new corrals and feeding troughs just to keep up with our stock. We can't even ship them off to makret fast enough before they've gone and created more of [...]"

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Fifty years ago just a few days from now, we landed people on the surface of the Moon. Now, one of the guidance computers that helped make it happen is mining bitcoin. How many hashes per second, you ask? 10.3 *seconds* per *hash.* righto.com/2019/07/bitcoin-min

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My office keeps getting checks mailed from a guy named William Payment. He keeps using a shorter form of his name.

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toxic shock yuri

I saw someone mention using the SMPTE test pattern as a pride flag so here's an experiment:

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mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓

current motto: "Everyone has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough to have a seperate production environment."

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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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... (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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pagetable

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

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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