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Hey, want to know an easy programming language: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Pro

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crows call me breadlady

so many horror stories are just "what if this happened TO YOU" about a thing that regularly happens to people

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Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

"The specification had provisions for reporting whether the floppy drive door was open, but IBM didn’t implement that part of the specification because it saved them a NAND gate."

"Mark Zbikowski led the MS-DOS 2.0 project, and he sat down with a stopwatch while Aaron Reynolds and Chris Peters tried to swap floppy disks on an IBM PC as fast as they could.

They couldn’t do it under two seconds.

So the MS-DOS cache validity was set to two seconds."

devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewt

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:collar: Good Girl Energy

People say there are cisgender werewolves but I've never seen one

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Harp :wigglytuff:

the legend of zelda game we truly need and deserve, revealed after the cut 

it is a beautiful day in hyrule

and you are a horrible g̶o̶o̶s̶e̶ ganon.

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pamela :flan_butterfly:

Thank you to @solder_on for putting a finger on something I've been trying to figure out how to communicate for a long time (paraphrased):

Documentation is code for the human mind. Telling someone to read it again is just saying "it works on my machine!"

:flan_think:​ also, different "architectures" are great for helping expose bugs in your documentation. Have others read yours, and don't assume they are wrong to point things out.

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Peak Dad rock was when the Offspring took a particularly bad Beatles song, and added lyrics about lazy freeloaders needing to get a dang job.

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the prince of dankness

it's hilarious when nerds think the voight kampff test is a real thing that we should create and not a brutal critique of rationalism

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the prince of dankness

philip k dick: the insatiable imperial desire to categorize and control has produced a horrific society of nightmares

nerds: woah talking robots!

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antiblackness, police violence 

It slaps

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antiblackness, police violence 

I just discovered Fables of Faubus, a little ditty Charles Mingus wrote about the white supremacists of the late 50s: youtube.com/watch?v=QT2-iobVcd

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For similar reasons, Smiths lyrics are a whole lot less funny and clever in 2019

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Genius wants to claim the song is satirical, which might be believable if we haven't had 30 years since of Rivers Cuomo behaving like an ass AND writing other songs about being creepy towards women.

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I could listen to "No One Else" and say, "This is fine. Just a perfectly normal song about hating your girlfriend and wanting a perfectly compliant passive replacement".

That's where I was at.

And even I could figure out the crappy pagan books I was reading were absolute bullshit.

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A lot of the pagan books I read as a teenager were so sexist, racist, and antisemitic, that even my uneducated unwoke ass could see that they were bullshit. And I listened to Weezer.

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Embers🎨🛡:ms_aromantic_flag:​

last night i had a dream where a new competitor to duckduckgo came up, goosegoosestop

any time you typed the goose from untitled goose game tried to steal your computer

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I'm not a sapiosexual because I don't want to flatter my crushes and exes that much.

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plsburydoughboy (I/het/him)

9volt @ bird spot is asking us to pace ourselves on Joker discourse but you know, considering it has apparently started domestic terrorism threats it's pretty hard to ramp down from there twitter.com/9_volt_/status/117

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hi*way from Atari - early 1980’s advertisingpics.tumblr.com/pos

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tSatty

Does anyone have that meme-image with different cyberpunk and steampunk derivatives sorted by decade?

It usually puts cyberpunk in our near-future, despite cyberpunk being "80's/90's near future".

Fun fact: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (the book behind Bladerunner) took place in 1991. And that was 23 years in the future when the book was written. 1991 is now 28 years in the past.

Cyberpunk is an alternate-history genre by now.

(I still would like that image)

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