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  it's a horrible day in the neighborhood, and you are a beautiful goose

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  remembering that prairie dogs sound like squeaky bus brakes

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  spent all of yesterday morning fighting with a docx in word that was exported from a pdf file, i get it looking approximately correct (only minor spacing and font differences) and out of morbid curiosity opened it in libreoffice to see how bad it looked (it was bad.) closed libreoffice and just shook my head proprietary "standards" will never work

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  breif, terrifying moments of consciousness

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  the english language really is unsuitable for communicating anything serious when "up high" and "a pie" can be pronounced identically, for example: "i need you to get something, up high" "i need you to get something, a pie"

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  to be fair it wasn't a complete cobol parser, more like it added or removed the required line numbers, reformatted the code, and automated the calling of the compiler commands so i could write simple cobol code in notepad and get a compiled binary by running a single script, instead of having to do the awful 9 step compile process from whatever development environment the college was using to teach at the time. it was also written in jscript, so not quite javascript but very similar

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  i should work on that python thing i was writing again, to check for new youtube videos from channels i was following via their rss feeds (something something yt-dlp watch with vlc later like some kind of dvr and not have to deal with youtube's awful platform decay)

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  amazing, not a single mention of ai in the latest windows insider newsletter even so, you've permanently lost me as customer microsoft, everything runs linux now

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  having to play tetris with heavy objects to get the (heavy) air conditioner out of the closet has me too tired to put it in the window :blobfoxdisapprove:

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  tomorrow i'm going to look into if it's possible to write an sqlite backed bash script, one step further on my spiral into insanity

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  here's the chunk of my script for patching red hat and derivatives grep -E 'algif_aead\.ko$' /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.builtin >/dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -eq 0 ];then if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ];then grep 'initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init' /proc/cmdline >/dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -ne 0 ];then sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init" lsblk...