Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt
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Science fiction writer. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist. Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!
Joined Jun 2023
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The ABC's of #unix . Hope this renders right :)
A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
D is for dd, the command that does all.
E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
G is for grep, a clever detective, while
H is for halt, which may seem defective.
I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
J is for join, which nobody uses.
K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
M is for more, from which less was begot, and
N is for nice, which it really is not.
0 is for od, which prints out things nice, while
P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and
R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.
S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
T is for true, which does very little.
U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
V is for vi, which is hard to abort.
W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while
X is, well, X, of dubious fame.
Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
Z is for zcat, which handles compression.
-- THE ABC'S OF UNIX
"Doomsmugging", incidentally, is today's neoword for "as long as you idiots are going to burn the world, at least I can still have sarcasm and s'mores".
voting, uspol, doomsmugging
People are all "but this time you need to vote defensively/strategically/for the lesser evil" as if where we are standing right now isn't the product of literal generations of short-termist dipshits pursuing that exact strategy.
Congratulations.
You chose evil for the dumbest "pragmatic" reasons.
Now you have it.
Enjoy.
I just had a cog slip in my brain and wrote an article for my notes about the Imperial Navy and its "pretty officers".
I mean, not that they don't *have* those, but still...
(Well, to be fair, they don't list the Oyashio-class attack submarines as "destroyer, subsurface". But they should.)
On another note, I for one am hoping the JMSDF habit of typing literally every ship as a destroyer variant of one kind or another persists through our expansion into space, just so that _someone_ will be operating "destroyer, comma, star".
All I ask is that if the JMSDF ever gets some new battleships (sorry, "big gun destroyers"), they paint them like this.
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The Azur Lane cosmetic camouflage for World of Warships' Fuso features a pleasant shade of purple and butterflies on the A and F turrets, based on her hairpin.
"And now, if you look out the right side of the spacecraft, you'll see a bad moon."
Everywhere crocheters crochet and knitters knit.
Unsoled fabric slippers do unless your shoes are way too tight as a matter of course.
Wanted, T-shirt division:
A picture of Han Solo trying to sneak into the Large Hadron Collider, with the caption "That's not how the Interaction works!"
Well, now. If we were to throw a conveniently-sized black hole through the Earth-Moon gap during the rocket's transit, could it work to give them a tow, or at least a sufficient trajectory change?
/me reaches for a convenient envelope-back
(We will ignore the resulting mile-high tide as convenient sequel fodder.)
@futurebird @richpuchalsky @jonquass @ehproque @moira Insofar as there’s a theory here, it’s not legalism, it’s legitimacy. For a representative democracy, legitimacy is strongly tied to the notion that the representatives actually are.
Basically, drive down the voting percentage enough and it will *look* like a ridiculous fascist farce as well as *being* a ridiculous fascist farce.
No more legitimacy.
Ankle socks are slippers in denial. Change my mind.
@nyrath @Madagascar_Sky @jstevenyork
Well, okay, but there have to be *some* islands around here we don’t need all that much…
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The Corrino Imperium does not strike me as a place that is incredibly meticulous about its biocontrol.
- Fiction
- https://eldraeverse.com/
- Tech Blog
- https://randombytes.substack.com/
- Random Stuff Blog
- https://noiseinmysignal.substack.com/
- avatar@arkane-systems.net
Science fiction writer. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist. Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!
Joined Jun 2023
