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mac3n · 2026-03-08T18:52:53 1772995973

i'm sure this will fix everything

mac3n · 2026-03-04T17:52:37 1772646757

> In contrast, Unix's ever-terse developers ended up making it send only a linefeed by itself, and so the OS which can still actually use teleprinters no longer does so correctly.

not so. Unix inserts a CR before the LF in the tty driver.

mac3n · 2026-03-02T23:28:33 1772494113

it's going just great!

futureofmoney · 2026-03-06T15:24:10 1772810650

Previous bear markets broke companies. February mostly broke sentiment.

mac3n · 2026-03-02T00:04:03 1772409843

That's some Tleilaxu level of creepy!

mac3n · 2026-02-24T17:02:18 1771952538

as a [road] bicyclist, I do appreciate some good asphalt.

mac3n · 2026-02-18T15:54:36 1771430076

house gotta have sipapu

mac3n · 2026-02-17T15:45:35 1771343135

anyone remember 005 ENQ (also called WRU who are you) and its effect on a teletype?

mac3n · 2026-02-17T15:38:48 1771342728

credit to William Crosby, "Note on an ASCII-Octal Code Table", CACM 8.10, Oct 1965

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/365628.365652

also defined 6-bit ASCII subset

mac3n · 2026-02-12T17:40:29 1770918029

let's see some "Courage", Apple?

mac3n · 2026-02-11T19:13:57 1770837237

see also Floyd Kemske, "Human Resources: A Corporate Nightmare"

https://archive.org/details/HumanResourcesPdf

> Corporate management is the use of humans as resources. So is vampirism.

>Biomethods, Inc. is a struggling biotechnology company whose venture capital group is growing tired of pumping in new blood every quarter.

FarmerPotato · 2026-02-11T20:09:02 1770840542

Future: Peter Thiel takes lead to rebrand VC as Vampire Capital…