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Jeff Allen @profoundlynerdy@mastodon.technology

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Eight bits are enough.

READY.
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The free market is the ultimate equalizer: it does not care if you grew up poor, the color of your skin, or by what name you call God.

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In case you were curious about copyright law and how it is abused to make people broke without doing anything useful: boingboing.net/2018/06/28/the-

One of the heirs to the estate that controls Buck Rogers wants to make a movie about the Public Domain novel that the Buck Rogers comic strip was based on (in which an Anthony Rogers is hurled in to the future.)

The other heir and the trust that controls the estate are suing him to prevent him from making this movie, and doing some shady shit.

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@bobstechsite @profoundlynerdy heh. Slackware 1.2 is the first distribution I was ever paid to run for someone else.

It's all good though, just a matter of what's best for task *right now*.

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@profoundlynerdy I would never presume to make recommendations to the wise elders of the Linux world 😂

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So, uh, literally none of OpenProject's installation methods work if followed as-written on fresh operating systems, but their docker image (which they heavily recommend against) works entirely fine.

Come on. "Actually install the project" should be part of everyone's dev routine.

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@profoundlynerdy The first wiki in the world. The Portland Pattern Repository, created to research software design patterns. Warning, it's a time sink. wiki.c2.com/

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After a decade, a landmark fair use case came to a close today: Universal's takedown of a 29-second YouTube clip of Stephanie Lenz's baby dancing to music by Prince has finally been settled.
eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/afte source: twitter.com/eff/status/1012005

Does anyone know of an in-depth "Gang of Four"-type book that covers programming design patterns in depth in a specific way?

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@profoundlynerdy @rice youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgq

Look how this man just casually uses base-8 for arithmetic like it's first-grade stuff.

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Guys I got several really good books from the university library. Apparently they're getting old, and no one is interested in them anymore, but they're soviet math and physics textbooks which guide you through every proof etc and are more in depth than any other textbook I've seen. I used these books to study for analysis courses and got 100% thanks to these. So I took like 6 books and I'm really excited about this lol

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@profoundlynerdy If we had all these dice, that would explain why nothing ever happens in big enterprises 😆

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Finally I understood the difference between zero and null.

I'm currently working hard to improve my skills. Every time I can reduce a function to just a return statement with all the "magic" happening on that line, I feel deeply satisfied.

Clearly there is a programmer in me, just below the surface.

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A UDP packet walks into a bar.
A UDP packet walks into a bar.
"Please beer I'll have a bartender."

The bartender says "Ha! Not a chance. You duplicate, you talk out of order, and you don't have credentials." 🤣

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