It wasn’t TeX, more like a command that is used daily, but I can’t find it anymore. Nice on metafont though.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•It's interesting to see what qualifies as a swear in different languages.
18·1 month agoYou know a language when you can understand if the waiter at the restaurant is insulting you
You really know a language when you can get back at him
There’s one of the GNU utils that actually does that
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Technology@lemmy.world•New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export ruleEnglish
18·2 months agoThe first thing I thought about was “there’s suddenly going to be lot of 2N2222 available”
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Trippin' Through Time@lemmy.ca•Give this painting a caption - wrong answers onlyEnglish
7·3 months agoUgh… this headache is killing me
Yo mama so old Debian calls her stable
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Technology@lemmy.world•The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years LaterEnglish
15·5 months ago404 brain not found. Sorry:)
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Technology@lemmy.world•The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years LaterEnglish
194·5 months agoLinux kernel has had support for 64 bit time for years. On Debian, packages for the upcoming release were updated to 64 bit time earlier this year. I’m fairly sure the other distributions have done or are doing the same. So basically you now have 2 years to upgrade your OS and to pester the vendors of commercial software to do the same.
Like someone else said, it will be 2 very busy years, but we can survive this.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissionsEnglish
83·5 months agoIn the eyes of the board of directors, sure . Plantings a billion worth of trees would probably have been too green
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Technology@lemmy.world•Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviewsEnglish
65·5 months agoIt’s SEO all over again, but worse.
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Technology@lemmy.world•ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claimsEnglish
2·6 months agoHi there, fellow QC reader
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Technology@lemmy.world•Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hoursEnglish
18·6 months agoFood is not the only thing that gets packaged. The worst example that comes to my mind is the way they package microSD cards.
The real shame is that windows never had the compose key. But all these layouts come from mechanical typewriters, anyway.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•When you accidental format the wrong /dev/sdX
4·7 months agoAnd you still got it wrong?
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Technology@lemmy.world•A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About ThemEnglish
18·7 months agoDue diligence what…?
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Linux@lemmy.ml•[anecdote] You learn something new every day with linux
3·7 months agoYou don’t need a desktop for a server. A local TTY allows the same stuff as connecting over SSH but you can do whatever you need to bring up the network. The drawback is having to go to the data centre…
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to EuropeEnglish
10·7 months agoTBF, I have those AND a programmable thermostat.


It’s made up numbers anyway…