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@futurebird @dancingtreefrog

In all seriousness maybe different written random symbols like Zener cards?

Be like “oh look, add one to star and you get wavy lines but oh shit you add one to wavy lines and you gotta bring another card in” and later “but what if we wrote the star as (dramatic pause) 1”

(This may be the card sorting exercise you referred to earlier, in that case ignore me.)

But the distinction between sign-and-signified is the single biggest aha moment you can get in CS, IMHO.

@futurebird @dancingtreefrog

I still remember calling something the Fth item the list semiseriously and a coworker about slapped me.

@jwz @desantis @th

Whatever UNIX I was using in 1996 didn’t have pgrep and as such I will never use it.

Same reason why I do “gzip - dc | tar xf -“…tar didn’t have a z flag back then and thus it never will.

My sister-in-law redid the guest bathroom and it is the most Twin Peaks shit. I love it.

(When the light is in purple mode the bathroom vent fan plays subtle elevator music from a hidden speaker.)

#design

I am an IEEE 754 NaN value. You are an IEEE 754 NaN value. We are not the same.

#cow #tools

Then: The Internet is designed to route around failure.

Now: The Internet is five companies and one of them is broken.

#aws #programming #networking

@mwl

It still boggles my mind that Oracle has let Solaris’s UNIX certification lapse. We live in a world where IBM z/OS and macOS are UNIX, but Solaris isn’t.