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Re:Show HN: I've forked neofetch to keep it alive by fmajid on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @02:15PM (#40227045)
Or in Tracey Kidder's book The Soul of a New Machine, the hardware engineer who tires of debugging nanosecond timing heisenglitches, moves to a commune in Vermont where he will not have to deal with units of time less than a season.
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Re:Show HN: I've forked neofetch to keep it alive by popey on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @06:09PM (#40230176)
Love that book. It enabled me to have one of my favourite flights of all time. Sat next to Chris Turner, chatting about his time at Acorn for about 9 hours.

I blogged about something related and included this anecdote part way through. https://popey.com/blog/2023/09/a-virus-for-the-bbc-micro/ - under "A short aside"

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