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[–] listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

holy shit these are the netbooks i've been looking for

Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine

A 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.

Source: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html Section IIIA

[–] listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Corporations would happily use slave labor if that was legal.

Source: The United States prior to 1865

:fingerguns: this person gets it

[–] listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Actually thinking passes values.

Speaking passes references.

mount the camera upside down. Then the camera will tilt down instead of up. A simple vertical flip in any video editing app will fix the orientation, if the camera can't recognize the altered orientation.

[–] listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

because the cost of food has nothing to do with world politics.

Its probably more affordable to just buy prepackaged foods than to spend the money and considerable time and effort on a freeze dryer.

Check out Technology Connection's in depth video on the subject: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Namf-Ddo_Xo

[–] listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Everyone dies two deaths, once when they die and again the last time another person thinks of them.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cringecollective.io/post/9695

Perfectly balanced as all things should be

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cringecollective.io/post/9695

Perfectly balanced as all things should be

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cringecollective.io/post/5626

can't make this shit up

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cringecollective.io/post/5626

can't make this shit up

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