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1. You can have a button for both. 2. Yes 3. I got stuck and couldn't get past RILGUN -- it'd be nice to know what the word you were going for actually was.

Frogfind would probably be good.

May be good to have a comparison/contrast with something like xonsh, or comparison of use cases.

You really ought to watch the Black Mirror episode Plaything. It’s about digital pets with a neural network interacting with a human played by Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who) and the ou…

Not even open source. Bleghh.

You should definitely watch the Doctor Who episode Partners in Crime.

But they left out the star marking the only location I want to know on any map of the Isle of Man: BigClive’s house.

Who is that, and why?

Can't distribution be archival? Thomas Jefferson: "Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of…

If it can't be done on a MC68000 (or thousands in parallel), then does it really need to be done?

> What is GNU and what is not these days? There is a definitive list: https://www.gnu.org/software/ > Is Wayland? Is GNOME? Wayland never was. GNOME was at one point but isn’t any …

The main advantage of sixel is probably the fact that it’s directly backward compatible with old DEC hardware, which I happen to like to use. I could have, say, a pdf reader that r…

I see no mention anywhere of yaft. Not an in-kernel framebuffer console, but one worth knowing about nonetheless, because it offers features like sixel support which probably won’t…

This is funny in that despite it being hosted on textfiles.com it is an audio file... attempting to convince people to switch from binary formats to text formats. http://audio.text…

Near infrared??

> PTA Parent-Teacher Association??

Even more reason to not use it for anything.

Oh Holy God, not another one! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Trivial_brainfuck_substitution

> What did I just read? It can compile C into BF, too. So....that's a thing.

Interested parties should also check out awka ( https://github.com/noyesno/awka ) and ELVM (which can compile C into awk or sed, among various other things) ( https://github.com/sh…

Just replying to the top comment in the hopes that this'll get seen: He's doing a keynote for linux.conf.au this year: https://old.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/riwm4x/brianwkernigha.…

Yes, I believe the computer jargon term for an occurrence such as this is a 'typo.' :D

Interestingly, elemental phosphorus was originally isolated from urine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus#Discovery which is funny considering that economists and such are w…