Oblomov
calcifer 
Computer
Lptputer
(For the 5 people who get this joke: psst we’re old)
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Arnout de Groot
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Student interested in cybersecurity, Linux/GNU and technology in general. O̶w̶n̶e̶r̶Servant of a cat. Also 🇳🇱.
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@ma_delsuc @mcSlibinas @calcifer
well, comp was a DOS command, but the joke is that COM[1-9] was the designator for the serial ports, and LPT[1-9] the one for parallel ports (the list of such reserved names also includes CON, AUX, PRN, NUL). They are basically the equivalent of the /dev/* stuff in Unix and similar systems, but they were first introduced in DOS when it didn't even have the concept of a directory so they're in the global namespace for files.
GeePawHillAnd so but anyway, did I ever tell you about my most humiliating experience as a skilled and successful computer programmer?
Dan PortsTwo of the most important lessons I learned in grad school:
1) you can register anything you want as a fictitious business name and get an official looking logo and letterhead and credit card
2) if a conference rejects your paper, your business can book the next conference room over at the same hotel and hold your own workshop and present your paper anyway
daniel:// stenberg://If you need a #curl version with support for OpenSSL v1 for a few more years, we got you covered: https://rock-solid.curl.dev/
Mark McCaughreanOn this day, forty years ago: 28 January 1986.
I was working on my astronomy PhD in the terminal room at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh.
Someone came in & told us the awful news. After so many launches & astronauts, we’d grown blasé & didn’t pay much attention anymore.
That changed in 73 seconds on that cold day & we learned again that space is hard.
I still remember their names:
Onizuka, Smith, McAuliffe, Scobee, Jarvis, Resnick, & McNair.
Ad astra, STS-51L Challenger crew ✨
Zack WhittakerAlways thankful for Techdirt.
R.L. Dane 
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New #blog #post: How Many Pixels Do You Really Need?
https://rldane.space/how-many-pixels-do-you-really-need.html
293 words
Another lightweight post, which got prematurely posted [here], hilariously enough. ;)
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn @ay
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #HIDPI #LoRes #RetroComputing #Nostalgia #Linux #Unix
synlogic4242LatLearn is a nanosecond-scale latency instrumentation & reporting library for Golang:
https://github.com/mkramlich/LatLearn
made by me
mhoye"... in contrast to Unix manual editions (which were formally numbered and give the Unix Research Editions their name) distributed software tapes were mostly a copy of whatever was at the time in the (single) Unix development computer."
Unix V4: The secret 1973 birthplace of "Works On My Machine."
(attn: @codinghorror )