Post 9idLJUx9F5HCvxeqQK by Simon@ubuntu.social
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 (DIR) Post #9idIQx34skQ4EfIGlU by codesections@fosstodon.org
       2019-05-09T11:45:07Z
       
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       Ever have one of those "magic or more magic" sort of days?  http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.htmlToday is shaping up to be that way, in the sense of crashes due things that logically *can't* matter, yet still somehow do
       
 (DIR) Post #9idK8K3JKXOrzEeCdU by Simon@ubuntu.social
       2019-05-09T12:04:10Z
       
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       @codesections that's one of my favourite old school tech stories.
       
 (DIR) Post #9idKjqiArq9hzXegG8 by codesections@fosstodon.org
       2019-05-09T12:10:57Z
       
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       @Simon >> http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html> that's one of my favourite old school tech storiesMine too!  My other favorite from catb is:# Tom Knight and the Lisp MachineA novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”Knight turned the machine off and on.The machine worked.http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141171
       
 (DIR) Post #9idLJUx9F5HCvxeqQK by Simon@ubuntu.social
       2019-05-09T12:17:23Z
       
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       @codesections i can't help but read these in RMS or john maddog's voice.