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I was stunned at how quickly a weird, malformed "fix" for an open issue on my freshly shipped github project attracted one of these insane karma farming PR drive-by's.

I'm lazy and just use 'w' all the time

your user name is found at the 4,922,096,564th digit of Pi

It should be a lesson to learn on how simple, logical and reliable tools can last decades.

I can't find anything verifiable related to your statement ...

Over the decades, PostgreSQL, aka Postgres, has grown into the most powerful general-purpose database and has become the de facto standard for developers worldwide. Just Use Postgr…

YMMV I guess but it's my goto tool; fast and reliable results at least for my use cases

Probably closer to say that Dropbox is a GUI on top of WebDAV

I still keep the Reference Guide on my desk to remind me of my roots and how far things have come and yet how much they remain the same.

"I can't accept Drum and Bass" is the greatest YouTube remix rabbit hole to go down

'It was a bit like a physicist asking, “What if gravity is a bad idea?”' Didn't that just happen in physics this week?

Clearly a POLA violation (principle of least astonishment)

Interesting to look through the "starred" repos of that account ... seems like a hit list: https://github.com/JiaT75?tab=stars

Newman lives on.

is that a vi repeat? lol

love the name ... needs a 1980's Commodore BASIC visual :-)

Doom will soon have been ported to more hardware than NetBSD!

that's crazy

What is TRUMPLOSE lol

Cubase should be no problem

Snobol4! I keep a couple of books like Snobol4 programming and my C64 Reference Guide around to remind the kids that the history of computing was old even when I started. It's surp…

I miss IRIX.

I'm aghast at this point: https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op... The blog post was probably literally written in and hosted entirely on open source softwar…