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Re:Hooray for the Sockets Interface on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @10:55PM (#49092917)
Go bears!
"what is happiness? It’s a moment before you need more happiness. You don't want most of it, you want all of it" - Churchill
One of the most under-appreciated lines from a TV show was from Fleabag season 2

"Priests CAN have sex, you know. You won't just burst into flames. I've Googled it!"

Re:A Supermarket in California (1955) on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @07:45PM (#42640318)
Go Bears
Paul McCartney
It is a good thing for democratically accountable governments to do good things that the people want!
Flag on the play. Pass interference. Defense, number 74. Ball will be placed at the spot of the foul. Automatic first down.
Re:Harvard Faces New Threat of State Tax on $51B Endowment on Thursday February 01, 2024 @10:36PM (#39224702)
if all those academics were as smart as we think they are, they'd start to question why they would ever live in Boston
Increasing the IRS budget is an unequivocal good!
Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @03:25PM (#38786277)
A good start!
Re:111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude on Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:10PM (#37289269)
An inch is an inch.
Warmly remember taking his computational geometry in undergrad. It was the most engaging and mathematically creative class I took in college.
dang, too bad it's gonna be done wrong
Palm Springs is awesome in the winter. It's a mecca of modern architecture!
TJ "henry" yoshi
It's not about winning, it's about fun!
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU+Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU+Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU+Linux.

I'm just playing games. I know it's plastic rock
Re:Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today on Monday March 13, 2023 @04:22AM (#35132670)
Bernie Madoff's dead, though.
Re:Scale AI Layoff on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:36PM (#34319719)
Unfortunate typo.
Re:How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail? on Saturday December 24, 2022 @12:12AM (#34114200)
yes!!! though you're more likely to catch them at Philz, or the Verve on University ave
Go cardinal!

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