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astralcomputing

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Refugee from twit.social

#Hacker #Doomer #OldTimer
#SciFi #Geek #RetroComputing

Forgotten more computer stuff than most people ever learn...

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@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

What is a programming language you learned and mastered, but that is now completely obsolete in your work?

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@nixCraft

BASIC
(all versions)

@ChrisJagged@mastodon.social avatar ChrisJagged , to random

So I had someone over yesterday, and she said it really weirded her out that I didn't have any wall decor (paintings, posters, hangings, anything, really).

I just sorta don't care much about what my living space looks like in a general sense. Function over form, for the most part.

So how 'bout it, ? Anyone else out there like me? Or am I just the weirdest weirdo who ever weirded?

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@ChrisJagged

The wife puts a few things up... but she has to keep the walls in the hallways, and the bedrooms clear, as I tend to bounce off the walls in the dark.

I balance with my eyes, so there's that.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

A lot of people don't know this, but you can use nano and not tell anyone you don't know how to exit vim

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@nixCraft

Makes me feel "dirty" somehow...

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange avatar JessTheUnstill , to random

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    @JessTheUnstill

    I think this is broken too...
    I use a giant filter of non-english characters to "filter" out the other languages...

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , (edited ) to random

    People who have a specific interest in / capacity for exploring the undocumented features of the human brain.

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    @mcc

    Experimental neuroscientists?
    Psychonauts?
    🤷

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    A Perl programmer is asked to write a script to find all the prime numbers. They finish in 5 minutes. "How did you do it so fast?" asks their coworker. "I just used the is_prime function," they reply. "But Perl doesn't have an is_prime function!" yells back the coworker. The Perl programmer laughs. "I know. I wrote it in three lines."

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    @nixCraft

    Probably just a call to an online AI ...

    If we all do it at once, together, we can probably crash all their giant GPU data centers!

    <evil grin>
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