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  Yesterday I threw my back while clipping my toenails in anticipation of a new adventure today. Don't get old! But I fixed it with grog. {insert grog song here) (it was probably not the grog or if it was it only acted on the symptoms)

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  Link, courtesy of @fanf@mendeddrum.org : https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/ For some reason I am particularly found of these from-the-trench accounts of impactful moments in recent history (almost always computer-related, but that's really just "recent" and "impactful" working together). There was a time when I was reading page after page from https://www.folklore.org/0-index.html (not that any of it has any relevance to whatever cra...

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  @b0rk@social.jvns.ca I read the parenthetical, but with the first linux Slackware distribution dating from 1993, I would have been interested in seeing more resolution there (even “1980s or earlier”). Especially also since it turns out it's the most popular choice at this point.

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  @regehr so, regarding your “bear spray is the last thing you need” advice, I seem to have found a more last thing. https://tech.lgbt/@void_friend/116528649005452314

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  @claesdevreese Also true: the world never used more fossil fuel than in 2024 which beat 2023 which beat 2022. It doesn't help to produce more solar and wind energy if we also produce more fossil fuel energy. It could become 1% of the total energy used and would still increase the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere, leading to climate change and its consequences. The use of fossil fuel would need to go down in absolute terms for us to start to deviate from the path to destruction on which w...

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  Do I know anyone with a 32-bit computer, an OCaml compiler and 30 minutes of compute time to spare? I would like to see what this program prints if you give it about that amount of time (give or take). In theory all exceptions Foo are supposed to be different (https://ocaml.org/manual/5.4/coreexamples.html#s%3Aexceptions "the function f cannot raise a Done exception"). let the_exn = ref Exit let c = ref 0L let rec f () = let exception Foo in if !c = 0L then the_exn := Foo; if...

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  Pic: on a whiteboard, someone tried to write two lines of C with magnets, but the character set has no ( ) " ;

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  This is the level of discourse that has been reached. The week-end cannot come soon enough.

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  “even in 1980”