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Feels like I learned most of these from the fortune line in my .login file in the 90s, and now they form the landmarks of how I reason about problems. As a teen
by motohagiography 5y ago
Feels like I learned most of these from the fortune line in my .login file in the 90s, and now they form the landmarks of how I reason about problems. As a teenager, these quips were profound wisdom, and in fact some of them were.
Simple mental reference tools like the six reliability curves and mean time between failure, pareto distribution, network and cascading effects, shortest paths and solvability, recursion, mutability locking and versioning, complexity classes, logical contrapositives, dependent and independent probability, are all things the fortune file seemed to have quips about and if you had a sense of humor, you could map them to everyday situations. Hackers are an old trope now, but when you read these together again, it was a very rich and distinct culture and way of thinking. I appreciate seeing these put together.
- ximeng 5y agohttps://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/fortunes?view=markup&pathrev=325827 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/fortune/datfile... FreeBSD fortune file
- ComputerGuru 5y agoActually, that’s just the truncated version. Full text here: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/fortunes?revision=325781&view=co&pathrev=325827 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/fortune/datfile...
- ComputerGuru 5y agoAnd the actual FreeBSD-tips file which I think is what you meant to link to: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips?revision=368014&view=co https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/fortune/datfile...
- usually 5y agoSurprising amount of hitler-related quotes in the last version, some of them are pretty funny, but considering there seem to be about 12365 quotes, they probably won't be missed. Diff if interested: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/fortunes?r1=325781&r2=325780&pathrev=325781 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/fortune/datfile...