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Nooooo! My numberinos!
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Welcome to another edition of "Adventures in Man Pages!"
Today's excerpt is from plutil(1):

STANDARDS
The plutil command obeys no one's rules but its own.
November 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Not much has changed tbh.

"There is no documentation yet; anyone crazy enough to volunteer? I may get around to it eventually."

-- Robert W. Scheifler describing his work on the X Window System in 1984

Source: www.talisman.org/x-debut.shtml
October 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
As it should. Now is the time we lean in.
September 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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June 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Rare audio. Celia Black, 1974 - 114 years old, remembering the slave fields. Her voice isn't ancient history — it's a reminder we're only a generation removed from this.

Think you know American history? You don't.

🧠ERASED reveals what they buried.
📖Read it. Share it: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
June 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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And no Lesbians & Bisexual women don’t commit a higher rate of domestic violence here are the facts:
June 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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And who they didn't approve of
June 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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June 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Context is really important. If your tech friends don't think so just ask them to explain this excerpt from an extremely common utility's manual:

"Phoniness is not inherited: the prerequisites of a phony target are not themselves phony, unless explicitly declared to be so."
May 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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People keep prattling on about this ChatGPT model that has "PhD level intelligence."

As someone who's spent 20 years cleaning up "PhD level" code for production I can tell you that your his is not the flex you think it is.
April 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM