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A command is something I shout to an underling or my shell prompt. My shell interpreter takes my command, parses it and calls the necessary tool, be it a builtin or an executable. …

I disabled quiet mode and I don't know what is revealed.

I have realized the same. Only it is different 100 photos every year.

I had a linguist attend a CS class and he didn't know how to copy and paste.

Will you update the list for us, a month from now?

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I remember a moment in an early job interview. My resumé was all proper for this entry level junior position and everything was checking out. We turned to smalltalk to round up the…

GP expressly said the wife does not code: she uses claude.

What was the original publication date for this strip #568?

Also contrast with the busy beaver problem and how much can be done with a small handful of instructions.

Timepieces are a classic example of this.

I really want somebody to mod this into OpenTTD because cargodist was a good step and a nice approximation for a time, it's no match to the "destination in mind" pax. I'm reduced t…

Tell me what happens if you run a Windows machine for say 12 months and decide to switch the GPU from NVIDIA to AMD (or vice versa)? Yeah. In linux it tends to be a nonissue.

Apple's hardware is their killer business.

The biggest strength of Eshell, for me, is that I can maintain some sanity in Windows environments (with or without WSL). In linuxland, it's a tougher sell. Compared to term-mode a…

Notepad going the way of Wordpad, EDIT.COM becoming the new Notepad. What's next, in a few years we're rocking EDLIN when we need to operate on a text file safely?

It ain't extinct shit if it can't even drive the car to have it washed.

Common fonts are gigabyte downloads these days thanks to emoji support.

I love this. Shouting into the void with the distinct feel, hope that if the idea was popular enough, it'd be brute forced back to existing. I noticed that the input is not being t…

I'm still using Firefox and loving it actually. Other browser engines don't support "zoom text only" anymore so my options are limited. And to my knowledge, there's nothing as good…

>just like Scorsese intended. >before Scorsese made The Godfather Can you let me in on the joke?

I don't know what kind of a joke you tried here, but I think a vast majority of TV screens can be put in game or PC mode, and all the input lag and stupid picture processing goes a…

Fantastic tools you've collected here! My rationale for building own decks for my wife is that I'm intending to start slow and easy, and I'll build new cards that are closely tied …