Post AplAIpyVexEJq1oS3M by enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #ApjlKK1IkKrXIZlmvw by emily@sparkly.uni.horse
       2025-01-03T22:14:18Z
       
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       there was once a motherboard form factor called AT, "Advanced Technology"then it got replaced with ATX, "Advanced Technology Extended"then that wasn't big enough for some motherboards and so there's also EATX, "Extended Advanced Technology Extended"computer people are so good at naming things
       
 (DIR) Post #ApjlKPqB6bWvLobzQe by emily@sparkly.uni.horse
       2025-01-03T22:16:20Z
       
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       the reason I was looking at motherboard form factors is because I'm sending off a motherboard I'm not using to a friend and he'll need to find his own case for itit's not even EATX, it turns out, it's EE-ATXEnhanced Extended Advanced Technology Extended
       
 (DIR) Post #ApjlKVyuH44qOck2ro by emily@sparkly.uni.horse
       2025-01-03T22:22:08Z
       
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       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexATXthis should be ATX but on an unreasonably large flex pcb
       
 (DIR) Post #ApkCTW9Pi936I4Ap6G by lain@lain.com
       2025-01-04T16:36:25.066029Z
       
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       @emily this is the worst limerick i've ever read
       
 (DIR) Post #ApkCvbu3uvpqEuOA1Q by feld@friedcheese.us
       2025-01-04T16:38:03.421540Z
       
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       @emily people really forgot BTX existed too
       
 (DIR) Post #ApkDJvUgjNZ7wu7Bpo by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
       2025-01-03T22:24:09Z
       
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       @emily it's longstanding intel tradition. the 8085 had the 8-bit registers A, B, C, D; the 8086 made them 16-bit AX "A extended" etc.; then the 80386 made them 32-bit EAX "extended A extended"
       
 (DIR) Post #ApkDKvCPJRmXKA2Swq by MekahimeAkari@mastodon.social
       2025-01-03T22:57:49Z
       
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       @emily me at work, begging architects to use more than three letters for acronyms
       
 (DIR) Post #ApkDNdo8QjmcFoyy4u by beardalaxy@gameliberty.club
       2025-01-04T16:46:34Z
       
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       @emily
       
 (DIR) Post #ApkDOp5hxqDPXSlX6W by billyjoebowers@mastodon.online
       2025-01-03T23:50:22Z
       
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       @emily Better than open source project names.
       
 (DIR) Post #ApkDOqGNbeLVAqlZNQ by engarneering@floss.social
       2025-01-04T00:13:34Z
       
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       @billyjoebowers @emily like "this is our premiere brand, the one by which we will show the world our philosophy....GNU"Flop
       
 (DIR) Post #ApkDOrRPE8lApKvtCa by emily@sparkly.uni.horse
       2025-01-04T00:29:29Z
       
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       @engarneering @billyjoebowers even the expansion of that one ("GNU's not Unix") is ridiculousthe defining feature of our thing is that it isn't quite the thing you wanted. we tried our best though
       
 (DIR) Post #ApkDVBJ8HD3sBC4ojI by enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social
       2025-01-04T02:16:42Z
       
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       @emily Agreed. Array, list, stack, queue, vector, zipper, buffer—they’re all pretty funky names for subtly different linear data structures (i.e. lists).They don’t compare to how physicists name things, though. For instance, all the supersymmetric particles just have the letter s prefixed to it.
       
 (DIR) Post #ApkE8l7H4fhSX3Ozwm by emily@sparkly.uni.horse
       2025-01-04T16:52:03Z
       
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       @lain there once was a shape called ATbut it's now quite old, you'll agreeso it was extended,embiggened, amended,and prefixed with EEEE.
       
 (DIR) Post #ApkE8zFEXsNwLnEYIS by lain@lain.com
       2025-01-04T16:55:03.979562Z
       
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       @emily much better :chefskiss:
       
 (DIR) Post #ApkEHdwL7pLcshWXtw by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2025-01-04T16:56:35.254640Z
       
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       @emily @lain Reminds me of how POSIX almost got named IEEE-IX which is just ridiculous.
       
 (DIR) Post #AplAIpyVexEJq1oS3M by enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social
       2025-01-05T00:26:03Z
       
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       @lanodan @enoch_exe_inc @emily Oh yeah, sorting algorithms (amongst other algorithms) have funky names, too. Like heapsort. Also, what happens if we invent an even quicker sorting algorithm than quicksort? Call it “quickersort”?
       
 (DIR) Post #AplHmiWybHUN7L84fI by emily@sparkly.uni.horse
       2025-01-05T00:30:01Z
       
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       @enoch_exe_inc @lanodan quicksandsort (for each element, if element < previous element, remove element and toss it into the nearest quicksand)