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Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer
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Gronk like waste time designing computers and systems software. Gronk do this a long time, since almost before rocks. Wheel good. Lever good. Inclined plane good. C++ not so good.
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fuiru X "One of my favourite Steve Jobs stories was the time the engineers working on the iPod brought their finished prototype to him in his office. He said it was too big, they needed to make it smaller. They said it was as small as they could make it, it couldn't be made any smaller. So he took the prototype over to his aquarium and dropped it in. The iPod sank to the bottom, and as it did, tiny little bubbles came out. 'See those bubbles,' he asked. 'They're air inside the iPod. Make it smaller.' "Another story about Steve Jobs was when they brought the prototype for the iPad 2 to his office. The engineers told him it was faster than the first iPad. He took it over to his aquarium and dropped it in. 'Look how slowly it sank,' he told them. 'Make it faster.' "One time a newly hired intern had been sent out to get Steve a sandwich. When she brought it to him, he looked at it. 'I thought I ordered the beef on rye,' he asked. She told him it was indeed beef on rye. He took it over to h
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where do you look up the voltage rating of a screwdriver?

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There was MINCE. And Micro-Emacs (if you could stand its end-of-file behavior). And JOVE. A few others I've been using Epsilon (a commercial Emacs clone) for over 30 years. It's still getting updates and is still great.

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rt$x^q:q$$&q33;)**$ "He's either writing TECO or having a seizure. Could be executable either way."

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the only vi that i know

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this would have killed me (my dad was an ecologist, and did some early work on climate change in the 70s. the kooks and deniers just enraged him)

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i am home sick, and plan to just watch this for hours

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Hamster dance for the new generation.

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"The stupid, it burns"

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Aisle 17B at Home Depot, next to the drywall repair supplies

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Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer
@kabdib.bsky.social
Gronk like waste time designing computers and systems software. Gronk do this a long time, since almost before rocks. Wheel good. Lever good. Inclined plane good. C++ not so good.
72 followers217 following379 posts