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by msla 3y ago
If most people are put off by trans issues, why are most companies using trans pride flags in advertising? Do you think companies are somehow averse to profit now?
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by msla 3y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/de_novo > Borrowed from Latin dē novō (adverb, literally “from the new”), from dē (“from”) + novō, ablative singular of novus (“new”). > Anew, afresh, from the beginning; without co
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by msla 3y ago
> I am embarassed by any complexity. It is the mark of a cluttered mind. It is the mark of a cluttered world. Sometimes, there is no simple solution. You have to parse this file, you have to use software to do it, and you can't fix
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by msla 3y ago
Google is trolling us with the useless use of cat right there in the first actual line of the script. https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award
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by msla 3y ago
Windows 11 has ads in its file manager, right?
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by msla 3y ago
Legally, FreeBSD is just an imitation of Unix. Linux is just as much of a Unix as any OS in actual widespread use.
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by msla 3y ago
While you might reliably survive attacks of biliary colic, you'll greatly wish you didn't have to. (I had my gallbladder removed many years ago.)
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by msla 3y ago
> For expert users? I'd pit it against any interface you want. Linux CLI with a good modern shell and Python versus 3270 block mode and Rexx would be an interesting match up. Similarly Emacs vs XEDIT.
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by msla 3y ago
Legally, NetBSD isn't actually Unix. The brand doesn't mean what people seem to think it means.
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by msla 3y ago
> w/ mice Is this a special kind of mouse?
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by msla 3y ago
So is the program of that chip burned into mask ROM (do people still do that?) or could that thing be taken out and repurposed? The datasheet mentions handy-dandy device programmers that plug into your PC and probably mandate the use of a h
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by msla 3y ago
What's the difference between an FLI and an FFI?
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by msla 3y ago
> This is actually surprisingly common in the culture--just think of the prevalence of specious 'dog whistle' accusations, which allow journalists to say, with a straight face, that while politician X might be saying something
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by msla 3y ago
> That would serve to both insure that the servers remained up by making them economically viable for the vendor and preserve the utility of the devices This seems naïve: "Yes, it's making money, but it isn't making enoug
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by msla 3y ago
A great way to write horrible programs. In short: If it works until it crashes, it doesn't work.
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by msla 3y ago
> Also, fun fact, it didn't have a CPU. It used all discrete logic chips, and was wired by hand, That's how CPUs were built back then. What it didn't have was a single-chip CPU, or a microprocessor. Next up: "The Mode
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by msla 3y ago
Is it time for a new take on PiHKAL? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHKAL > PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story is a book by Dr. Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin, published in 1991. The subject of the work is psychoactiv
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by msla 3y ago
It incentivizes public-private cooperation: If the government cracks down on Amazon, Amazon turns off the government's AWS accounts and deletes the data. The government finds that subpoenaing a wiped hard drive is utterly nugatory, and
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by msla 3y ago
Yeah, this isn't Linux. Linux is better than this these days.
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by msla 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240113013404/https://i.imgur.c...
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by msla 3y ago
> VS Code is not an IDE, it's more like the evolved GUI-Version of Emacs. "We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." Inter
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by msla 3y ago
So here you are, advocating the philosophy of antisemites. Looking at your comment history, this is not surprising.
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by msla 3y ago
I think the Caproni Ca.60 was uglier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60 > The Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo, often referred to as the Noviplano (nine-wing) or Capronissimo, was the prototype of a large nine-win
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by msla 3y ago
Except when Apple decides to cancel your warranty over this, they're more likely to have defenders.
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by msla 3y ago
> except in broken languages, of which the only notable one is shell The array language people (APL, J, K) are going to come in and protest, but you aren't going to be able to understand them. /s
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by msla 3y ago
> GIT Just out of curiosity: What do you think GIT stands for?
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by msla 3y ago
> if the bitstream format was documented competitors would know how the device works and be able to prove their patents are being violated. Because the word "subpoena" doesn't exist for any of these companies?
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by msla 3y ago
While we're playing this, I wonder what might have become of Inferno had it been Open Sourced back when it was still potentially relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) TL;DR: The Unix p
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by msla 3y ago
"The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted. life" — Paul Morphy
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by msla 3y ago
Out of what? If there's no inputs, there's nothing it can do. Or do you think all sugar is the white stuff you get at the store?

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