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programming project going slow? have you tried adding someone to the team? that won’t speed it up you say? what if the person you add is the Mythical Moth-Man

random reminder that ace people can have sex and non-binary people can have computers

People can't tell me that it's not possible to make the world accessible for disabled people, after the whole world has been made accessible to cars.

Dell dot com slash support
Enter service tag, find laptop and warranty status
Click 'View product specs' link
Nothing happens. Look at NoScript, see it's blocking requests for JavaScript from http://127.0.0.1/.

Wat

what if they were gay,,, and added each others 88x31 button on their website,,,,,

"text editors" aren't real and cannot hurt you

emacs is a keyboard tester

vi was made up in 1976 to force people to hit the escape key

ed is the nefarious person who created them both. he is not to be trusted.

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If you use Outlook at your workplace, here's one simple trick you can implement to help boost your productivity! 📋✨ #WednesdayTips #PowerUser

Italic is not the slant, it is the letter shape. True cursed font knowledge begins with CMU Serif Upright Italic.

Bunnies <3.

A rabbit served several females and sired more than 250 young of both sexes. In the next breeding season the rabbit, which was housed in isolation, became pregnant and delivered seven healthy young of both sexes. It was kept in isolation and when autopsied was again pregnant and demonstrated two functional ovaries and two infertile testes. A chromosome preparation revealed a diploid number of autosomes and two sex chromosomes of uncertain configuration.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/238235

I read "functional programmers" and it took me a whole minute to realize they meant programmers who know functional paradigm languages.

robot girl displaying “it’s now safe to turn on your computer” when she’s in a horny mood.

/erin

Answer: Not at all, at least not from the WinWorld archive. It turns out 'ed' is an optional package, and neither 'm4' nor 'make' are in the floppy set at all. I need either a SVR4 version other than AT&T 2.1 or a later Unix.

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Very bad idea of the moment: A high density ZFS pool of cheap SD cards, like a dozen TB or so of redundant storage in the volume of a regular candy bar.

SD cards are a technology taken right out of early Gibson, real neuromancer shit. Incredible trash tech. Gigabytes of low quality abundance. Small enough to lose even when you're paying attention. Extraordinary but embarrassingly low grade.

There's very nice classy ones from SanDisk but there's so many more from nameless foundries for sale on AliExpress and a tenth the price, that mostly work.

(Chairman George Morrow would shit bluebirds: "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of floppy disks", two obsolete things in one sentence.)

I'm using the big ones in my cp/m machine. Doing serious endurance testing and marginal testing. The really cheap ones do _weird_ things sometimes but work ok, mostly. I now have some good test code, ask me in a week....

With two cards installed, on the same SPI buss, doing random disk random block random read/write I *suspect* there is some odd stuff going on, but it's hard to separate code from electronics from the cards' various effects.

Pretty fucking interesting though.

I want to make the cheap cards as usable as the good ones. I think tristate buffers will do that.

Rooting for the underdogs.

Run-anywhere scripting masochism of the day: I'm probably about to install an actual Unix SVR4 VM to find out just how well (or likely badly) my "works in modern posix tools" awk, m4, make, & sh scripts run in a real legacy Unix.

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