I stopped using my old cases when we went from AT to ATX

Though I still have a 286 that still works, my expectation for the first thing to go on it is the mouse

When I last set up LFS it took a week, but I read everything. I was doing it to better understand how Linuxes work

…that was a full week, it would have taken much longer had I had other things to do

The first three drafts of my favourite test program (a program to drive servos to point a heliostat mirror at mirrorLattitude, mirrorLongitude, mirrorAltitude in altitude and azimuth to direct the reflected ray at targetLattitude, targetLongitude, targetAltitude) wouldn’t run.

It’s very rare for any AI to use real modules for the language (even when I say “please use library modules that exist in CPAN”) and they nearly never know how to reflect a ray

It’s not for the common people. It’s for companies that dream of workplaces with no people, Facebook which talks to you automatically so you can still be fed ads while your real life friends are asleep

If it worked, stories like in OP could be true.

I have never used COBOL, but it’s the language for the system I’m an analyst for, and I don’t see a problem with it

The difficulty with all satire is those in power or with loud megaphones are doing stuff that was satire ten years ago. The stuff being made up by either side is hard to tell from reality

He gave us the context

or at least fascist adjacent

There’s probably fewer than ten of us here

an hypothesis

I think you mean an ’ ypothesis (only vowels use an; consonants use “a”; h is a special case as French and French influenced English drop the h from the start of words). It’s polite to show the letters you have dropped with an apostrophe so readers don’t take incorrect ideas from one’s writing

It’s still legal in Australia, at least, we never got the anti-circumvention rule the US media companies got into the US trade agreements

Or rather we did, but they have exceptions that cover just about every otherwise legal use case. I can legally decrypt media to play on my Linux machine, for example. I think the only thing we can’t legally do is circumvent controls to do copyright violation

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

When I use an editor, I don’t want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren’t even WORDS!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

TEXT EDITOR.

When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.

Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!

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Nb WYGIWYG* is a play on WYSIWYG†

*What You Get Is What You Get

†What You See Is What You Get