Kacper Uminski

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Computer Science student at Linköping University

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

L + Ratio + Cope + Seethe + Send + Sync + 'static
new tech warcrime

ppl always complain that the clock on my microwave never shows the right time bcs i cant be assed to set it manually

so now i have an unfuck-microwave.sh cronjob which briefly kills its power every day at midnight

TIL that the C++ STL has a function called `std::get_money` in it:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/manip/get_money

std::get_money - cppreference.com

I am completely and mentally stable...

Oh look, a robot vacuum I can root at 03:59 AM!

Here's the document release you were waiting for today!

The UNIX V4 tape!

https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw

Credits:

* Jay Lepreau for holding on to this tape
* Aleksander Maricq for finding it
* Jon Duerig for driving it to the Computer History Museum
* Thalia Archibald for doing a huge amount of research into the tape, its history, and file formats, and the upload
* Al Kossow for the tape-reading equipment and doing the actual read
* Len Shustek for the lab where the read was done and the software used to decode it

#retrocomputing

UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah (raw) : Computer History Museum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

UNIX V4 tape from the University of Utah, received by Martin Newell in June 1974 around when he modeled the Utah Teapot.This is the raw analog waveform and the...

Internet Archive

So I looked at Tahoe release (in VM). Some UI highlights (thread):

- Window toolbar changing color from white to black for no reason

And just like that I have now successfully defended my PhD :)

> [ 3667.147113] dhcpcd[651]: segfault

"oops"

You might not like it, but this is what peak compiler performance looks like.