I landed in the middle. SCCS was too old, CVS was too new.

https://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/

But, back then, I had also been forced to use CMVC.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Configuration_Management_Version_Control

Ok. So this is not about a sexual kink or sexual fetish. Got it.

I’m reminded of Deadline an interactive fiction game where you are solving a murder mystery and unless you are in the right place at the right time you will miss some important evidence.

An oldie but a goodie:

https://wtfqrcodes.tumblr.com/

Fuck gawd damn, I don’t know who I’m angrier at more: myself or the joke writer.

The humor lies in the dual meaning of the horticultural labor task and the selective bias fallacy having the same idiomatic phrase of “cherry picking”. And that is all there is to the humor.

Right?

Please do the needful

You mean stuff like:

Feels So Good released in 1978 reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Lost Highway with lots of tracks from Angelo Badalamenti.

I’m saying this in the terms of the tabletop role playing game setting Transhuman Space but…

Your post reminded me that I’d like a series of either mysteries or maybe noire detective stories with infomorphs running in cybershells used for blue collar labor like janitorial services on a big belter trading port.

Yes. Finder is just some app you can move files with on macOS.

Goblins were Chaotic. Lawful was civilized. Your adventurer was probably Lawful.

To see where this comes from you’d have to read Moorcock’s Elric saga.

My dad was born in 1932. If some fat bearded hippie had started talking “rape and whores” around women, my dad would have punched him in the face. If no woman was around, he would have just told the pudgy incel to piss off. That’s the kind of sexism that existed back then among most decent folks.

Finder is macOS equivalent of Windows Explorer (maybe, it’s been a while). I assume Linux desktop suites have various similar processes. In other words, a second optional layer (with more features) to access runtime libc file manipulation api.

Boy oh boy would you hate AppleScript. This is what I have to type to throw files in the trash instead of deleting them.

tell application ”Finder” to delete POSIX file “/full/fucking/path/to/file”

much less unheard of

Don’t fail to not use double negatives!

No wonder the responder didn’t unsuccessfully misunderstand the sentence.

I know what you meant by “state flag” but I want to be cheeky, so here goes:

We didn’t pledge to a state flag but the federal flag. But the state of Maryland has a fabulous flag, and I’m still devoted to its design all these years later.

For whatever reason, in the 70s, in Maryland, I only recall pledging allegiance in the morning at the start of school during first grade. I don’t think we did it past second grade. In any case, I took the opportunity to insert curse words. I would say it like, “I pledge allegiance to the shit, and to the asshole for which it shits.” I didn’t lower my voice either. I just figured that I would never be noticed. Thinking back, I am surmising that my teacher must have noticed at least once but just ignored it.

Is the character in the right saying the white-lettered words?

I’m not debating. It is not a matter of opinion. I’m doing you the courtesy of informing you how the entire rest of the world uses the term.

If action A looks for thing X, and it finds thing X, then the test is positive. If action A fails to find thing X, then the test is negative.

If action A claims to find thing X, but later confirmation determines that thing X is not really there, then this situation is called “false positive”.

If action A claims fails to find thing X, but later confirmation determines that thing X is actually there, then this situation is called “false negative”.

That thing X may subjectively be considered an unwanted outcome has **nothing ** to do with the terms used.

Just so you know, if your doctor calls and tells you that your HIV test is positive, you probably shouldn’t run out and celebrate.

In the 90s there was this purple dinosaur from a children’s TV show that everyone seemed to hate. I don’t know anything about him or why we were supposed to hate him. To know anything about him you would have to have watched a show for 3 year olds, so if you did that then you deserve to be annoyed by it. Right?