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@glyph @SnoopJ @jonny @Meyerweb As someone who used to hand-edit (code?) PostScript "documents" back in the early days, I have a deep appreciation of how easy CSS is to use by comparison.

@StarkRG @PavelASamsonov If you have 0% uptime, you can't have downtime, right? Checkmate!!!

@cshlan @futurebird @joelvanderwerf @not2b That's such a crazy story, Ben Franklin accidentally creating a cryptid with a marketing campaign for his almanac. Quintessentially American.

@ifixcoinops@retro.social Your "gibbering manifesto" sounds a lot like my fond remembrances do. I hadn't thought about Frontpage in a *long* time, and while I'm not a fan, I agree that it was a gateway drug for a lot of people. Anyway, thanks for sharing.

@PetraPanda uberXecute

@cstross Puts a new spin on "in the mouth of madness".

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @chrissn@mastodon.social @futurebird@sauropods.win With SQL it's easy to change an AND to an OR in a complex where clause, so that any single update looks right but it changes the same value on ALL records in the table.

@film_girl What's My JND? 0.0107 Can you beat it? https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=BCogKP__zKd_

@futurebird@sauropods.win @noplasticshower@infosec.exchange @GinevraCat@toot.community A book like that would be amazing! I also learned programming concepts so long ago (50 years now) that I don't remember anything about discovering them beyond my initial impression that GOTO was cool.

@Doug73 Best moral panic ever.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com Not just stochastic terrorism, but regular terrorism.

@sue l hope you get an opportunity to use it as a lesson in the value of understanding your code.

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange That's an excellent summary! @linuxgnome@todon.eu @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us