David Delony @ddelony@mastodon.sdf.org
It's more fun to compute.
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Just to be clear, I like Peter Gabriel.
Everybody:
Peter Gabriel: Ayyyyyyyyayyyyyyyyyyayyyy
The great thing about those old deskside workstations is that not only did they run unix, they also kept your drinks cold.
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Ernest Hemingway once wrote a six-word short story that could make people cry for a bet. The wager was ten dollars, which Hemingway won with the following:
Progressive rock was the indie of the '70s.
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Gallant uses nice on unattended processes. Goofus mines bitcoin on shell servers.
Uncool music report: Peter Gabriel's "So" and U2's "Joshua Tree".
Q: Why did the turtle log in to the Unix system?
A. To write a shell script.
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The best part of the original Unix paper is that they had to explain how directories worked. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/unix.pdf (PDF)
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GNU Emacs is really a virtual LISP machine.
"But they made Windows with Qbasic." Explains a lot, really.
http://rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_programming.shtml
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*tries to pitch silicon valley techbros on starting a company to develop and sell a qbasic micro web framework* It's retro, everyone cool loves retro! Only an ASM micro web framework would be cooler.
The one thing I miss from the CD format is the booklet.
It's more fun to compute.
http://ddelony.sdf.org
Joined Apr 2017
