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But dc is a reverse polish calculator Unix program. It’s even in the Bell Labs’ Unix 1^st edition manual.

:!kill -9 -1

It’s designed to be an extended vi clone above anything else.

It’s blueshifted to looking green because you’re excessively speeding.

C was built mostly to abstract from assembly

That’s actually not true; rather, many modern architectures are designed to allow languages like C to be compiled more easily. Old architectures don’t even have a built-in stack.

Ed Is The Standard Text Editor

ed, ex, and vi are all standard, required text editors in the Single Unix Specification.

You also talk to the rapist.

I look forward to finding out how it’s actually much worse than meets the eye. [emphasis added]

It this schadenfreude because you hate Canonical and their Snap system?

It would be better if the workers were actually paid enough.

[[ is not a POSIX shell feature.

much like “therefor”, which does not mean the same thing as “therefore”

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Why does philosophy constantly twist things into an over complicated mythical mess, and then act like it’s some novel insight?

I cannot stand that either, but this sort of pseudo-profundity is more common in some specific schools of thought, rather than philosophy in general.

Does a tree falling in the woods with nothing to hear it make a sound?

It’s probably № 1 on my list of stupidest questions. The answer is yes.

And GPL compatible, so a fork of tmux could be GPL-licensed on top of the ISC license.

The important thing is clean energy, regardless of whether or not it is renewable.

… except that the Y2K bugs actually existed, and were dealt with appropriately.

Not for another 34 million years, going by the date.

Are you using the NTFS3 kernel module instead of the FUSE driver?

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—Opening crawl of Star War The Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West