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My problem. Is that I have the capacity to write my own open source replacement for any one single software program that goes bad. But if all the software goes bad at the same time. I do not have the capacity to rewrite all of them.
wink posted Sep 8, 2026
I watched a youtube movie where someone scolded something for an engineered plot devices and I remembered how 5-7y old me found An American Tail stupid because of exactly that. I've not rewatched it in over 30 years but maybe I should and check if I've been rightfully mad since then. (I repeatedly forgot about for years, I'm not holding a grudge that long... usually.)
wink posted Sep 7, 2026
While logged out (as I usually am) Google gives me mostly German search results (when I don't want them, and ?tl=de translated reddit results are especially bad) but YouTube gives me auto-dubbed en-US version of German videos I want to watch in German. This is fine.
y'all implies the existence of y'exists
Ghost busters has such lasting power bc it follows the classic three act structure:
1 get thrown out of university for misconduct
2 incorporate a small business
3 fight a large marshmallow
birth
school
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"LB" is an acronym which is short for "Long Binary". It refers to a system where data is encoded as sequential patterns of zeroooooooo and ooooooooone
![Satirical unix joke based on the maxim from the infamous 1979 IBM training material (“..a computer must never make a management decision”)
Text: a [makefile] can never be held accountable
therefore a computer must never make](https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/117/053/647/991/280/489/original/b87e6e5a9e092765.jpeg)
corbin found the good HN comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022130