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Shiitake Toast-MAX 9

@stefan funny how many computer metaphors are actually literal.

7 February at 22:07 | Wall-to-wall | Open on beige.party
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Stefan Bohacek
Shiitake Toast-MAX 9

@stefan I remember those buttons on the car stereo! I had no idea that’s why they were called that in computing. I thought it’s because they were round and it had something to do with radians.

7 February at 22:15 | Open on beige.party
Large Format Projectionist

@ShiitakeToast @stefan

Except when they’re exactly the opposite: bootstrapping originally referred to the IMPOSSIBILITY of self-starting, of lifting one’s self by one’s own bootstraps. By 1922, usage had utterly reversed the meaning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstra

8 February at 1:50 | Open on mastodon.social
Shiitake Toast-MAX 9

@Benhm3 @stefan I always think of that as the statistics term. But that’s a good one.

8 February at 1:55 | Open on beige.party
Pusher Of Pixels

@ShiitakeToast @stefan '

The other fun thing was sticking one card in a deck that had every hole punched out. Machine shredded it and jammed.

8 February at 5:51 | Open on universeodon.com
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