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Re:Spack – scientific software package manager for supercomp... by bowsamic on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @03:44AM (#35243483)
Well the UK has done an amazing job at getting rid of almost all uses of the word "spastic" due to the campaign against it, so it could be for that reason
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Re:Spack – scientific software package manager for supercomp... by timthorn on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @04:38AM (#35243810)
I'm old enough to remember that and some other derivations being very common in the playground. Just not this one.
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Re:Spack – scientific software package manager for supercomp... by bowsamic on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @04:47AM (#35243867)
To be fair I didn't remember it until I put the "a" on the end, like "spacka". Then I remembered
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