read this pdf for some fun examples of the problems they have had to deal with, here's one of my favorites:

"One card game tried to make changes to the system.ini file but ended up destroying it. The game read the system.ini file a line at a time into an 80-character buffer, made any necessary changes, and wrote the result to a temporary file. If any line contained more than 80 characters, the buffer overflowed and corrupted the next variable on the stack, which happened to be the name of the temporary file! Once the changes were made, the program deleted the system.ini file and renamed the temporary file to system.ini. But the rename operation failed because the name of the temporary file was corrupted by the extra-long line.The result: a system with no system configuration file.In other words, installing this program rendered your system unbootable.The fix from the operating system side was to go through all the components of the system that used the system.ini file and make sure none of them ever wrote lines longer than 80 characters."

i believe windows using the backslash to this day is the result of an absurd level of backwards compatibility. ms-dos didn't have directories originally, and they used / for switches instead of -. so for file directories, they used \.

also if anyone needs a specific book you could try messaging me and i can see what i can find on various websites that i am registered for

i need my girlfriend 😭

https://libgen.is/ https://z-lib.org/

would i get a tax rebate or something then

according to wolfram alpha that would just get rid of 37% of the stars in our galaxy, so we'd still have quite a bit of stars left. 30 million gamers would have to complain every day for 91.32 trillion years, or about 6600 times the age of the universe.

yay im glad i helped (i assume)

i swapped from lastpass to bitwarden a while ago

do you have a discord or anything id love to talk more

omg btfs i missed you 😭

i think i agree fully with this set of tweets i saw about how someone felt about this article: https://twitter.com/afewbruises/status/1359228036659355651

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justard

is anybody singing sea shanty 2

communism

oh im gay too

is it the best linux

does anyone have any more

if capitalism is efficient then how come google starts and then kills 800 products a year? checkmate capitalism.

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learn german so you can read some karl marx, untranslated.

Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt Euch!

fucked up that regular currencies are too.

copyright intended 👿

congrats

Sid Meier's better title for his memoir