xl

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   by xl 8y ago

   beats getting eaten alive by a giant reptile I suppose.
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   by xl 9y ago

   I'very always wondered how you tease that apart from the native people simply not having the ability to combat naturally caused wildfires. When we suppress them, we employ a ton of technology (from chainsaws to C130s full of red dust)
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   by xl 10y ago

   Well, he made that goddamned donkey game...
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   by xl 10y ago

   I don't know if that was really a "decision" or an unfortunate compromise. DOS inherited /foo style command line parameters from CP/M, and DOS 1 didn't have a hierarchical file system, so there was no conflict
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   by xl 10y ago

   [Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.] As far as I recall, the original impetus behind what became PowerShell (as handed down to us in a conference room by Ballmer himself, sometime around 2001) was to fill the gap between ops people who did