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Was just realizing:

When I was a young pup, our public school system spent a fair bit of time teaching students how to effectively search a library.

Do current iterations teach students how to effectively craft a search query for various search engines and which engines are best for which queries?

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@munin My ca^H^Hmaster informs me it's unwise to disturb a cozy kitty

Found this a while ago. If you think you want to code something in C, stop. You probably don't, unless you're a longtime C coder or have a good reason. Otherwise, use something else. So many Heisenbugs just from memory management.

But if you must code in C, or perhaps you want to learn, here's a great look at how to code in the latest standard.

Be warned, the path to the C has dragons and Heisenbugs and deep magic and great knowledge. It is not for the faint of heart.

matt.sh/howto-c

Three years ago today, Windows XP reached End Of Life. Windows 8.1 was released on the same day.

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Now we've had our memorial, do everyone a favour and get both of them out of prod and burn the images and backups on a pyre.

YOU: Hangs mirrors around your bedroom to foster a larger sense of space.
ME: Paints the walls, ceiling, and floor with Vantablack® to manifest a cold and infinite void.

> People often don't realize how important it was to OSS that it was preceded by decades of easy access to programming tools and resources meant for absolute beginners.

> OSS needs FPGAs, and FPGAs need what programming had back in the 1980s: an on-ramp.

Man this looks really cool. Am excite. blinklight.io/blog/2017-03-31/