Monthly Archives January 2019

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Bureaucrats cut red tape — lengthwise.

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I can’t decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling.

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Anyone who thinks UNIX is intuitive should be forced to write 5000 lines of code using nothing but vi or emacs. AAAAACK! (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands, especially Emacs.)

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The wall has always been better as an idea than a tangible thing, with all its flaws and its sprawling cost. Perhaps Trump would prefer to have his wall as a martyr, occasionally waving its bloody tunic around before the crowd at pro-Trump rallies. If that was the president’s ultimate goal, he’s on track to […]

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In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetency

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Did I say I was a sardine? Or a bus???

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Never eat more than you can lift.

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I might be able to shoehorn a reference count in on top of the numeric value by disallowing multiple references on scalars with a numeric value, but it wouldn’t be as clean. I do occasionally worry about that. –lwall