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sometimes the way people talk about companies is as if they think companies should be owned by the state

sometimes these people are even anarchists

yesterday for work i literally copy pasted the XSLT that generates the index pages of www.u2764.com and slapped an MIT license on it and stuck it in a work repository

@noelle « Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope, that my Country will never cease to view them with indulgence; and that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. »

imagine if tumblr users knew how to throw out a good etaoin instead of an asghfklgs

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good ol' linotype, saving us from the boring comprehensibility of the modern era

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people who know etaoin shrdlu also have access to a much better set of arbitrary variable names than foo and bar

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people who know etaoin shrdlu have a distinct advantage at wordle

ooh maybe TRIES, although it’s not as fun

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TARES is also good

you should definitely have both T and S in your first word because those letters are frequent combinators (without them H becomes much less likely); S at the end gives you peace of mind; L or R helps point you to/away from BL/PL/GL/CL and BR/PR/DR/TR/GR/CR

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my proposal for wordle starting word is TELOS

@witchfynder_finder if they paid programmers and the like a trade salary we would have a better world

coin enthusiasts just can't handle that the high-tech future of money is paper

for ( const $ in new Array (5).fill() ) {
try {
console.log(`processing step ${ +$ + 1 }…`)
throw new Error }
catch ( error ) {
break }
finally {
continue } }

@noelle yeah i think my brain might have just made that one up! which is a bit surprising to me

@aescling @monorail yeah it's rough trying to learn how to draw by drawing pokémon

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