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"SQUID Sandwich" would be a great band name.

“eat-sleep-run-repeat" -- relatable.

NT performed unnatural acts to implement fork semantics for the POSIX subsystem.

I'm right-handed, but I snowboard goofy. Coincidence (or not?) my left leg is dominant. I can kick a ball just fine with my left foot, but when I try to kick with my right foot I f…

It seems to me that Backblaze does NOT exclude ".git". It's not shown by default in the restore UI -- you must enable "show hidden files" to see it -- but it's there. I just did a …

> Touching the circuit board on the back of the CRT tube by mistake trying to troubleshoot image issues, “fortunately” it was a “low” voltage as it was a B&W monitor…. My father ra…

On systems with a single floppy, drives A: and B: were two logical drives mapped to the same physical drive. This enabled you to (tediously) copy files from one diskette to another…

> but it's an example of why it's a bad idea to "cleanup" a system from a virus without a full reinstall This x1000.

I've always thought of him as Nibble. 2 bits = a quarter (25 cents), 4 bits = 50 cents 8 bits = byte, 4 bits = nibble Therefore 50 Cent = Nibble.

It's also known as JSONL (JSON Lines).

"Remind me to make you an honorary blind person."

As a former boss used to say: "Unlimited is a bad idea."

I went through the LFS process back in 2003 or 2004. I didn't have a Linux system handy, so I built it with Fedora 3 running under VMWare on a Windows XP laptop. It was not speedy.…

That was breathtaking.

Back in the day (1991 or so) during my brief time as a UI person we called the first mode "H for Hawaii" and the second "HAW for Hawaii". We never attempted the "why not both" opti…

I'd like to see a fully distributed version. All you need is 4B hosts (IPV6 FTW) named N.domain.com (where N varies from 0 to 4B-1). The driver app sends N to the first host (0.dom…

I read an article many years ago on programing Othello. I think it was BYTE Magazine, circa early 1980s. It mentioned pitting an app using a simple heuristic technique similar to t…

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... "Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: 'Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answe…

Here's one that bit us a few years ago: SEQUENCEs, used to implement SERIAL and BIGSERIAL primary keys, are not transacted. "BEGIN; {insert 1,000,000 rows}; ROLLBACK" always adds 1…

For years I've said "any clothing manufacturer that promises something is both 'waterproof' and 'breathable' is lying to you". Shakedry actually delivers on this promise. FWIW I do…

"A KMC chain will work with a Shimano derailleur. Shimano should have no problem with that." IMO if Shimano could DRM their chains and other consumables they would.

Neigh.

Cory Doctorow's take: https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/27/not-an-ad/#shakedowns

My mom was an OB/GYN nurse for several decades. She worked in Active Labor for many years with a nurse named Alice Stork. This Stork did indeed deliver thousands of babies.

My mom was an OB/GYN nurse for many years. She worked in Active Labor with a nurse with the last name "Stork".