i don¦t know who john blowe is but i salute him 🫡

thunderstorms are much better than fireworks the forces are showing us up

• independence day is a good film because it proposes that with global solidarity we can overthrow the locusts who are stripping our planet for resources, no matter how invincible they seem

• independence day is a bad film because it gave Bush an idea on how to turn an unpopular presidency into a popular one

« While STDIN can easily contain XML data, it might contain a consecutive list of XML trees, which strictly speaking is a forest. »

if this sounds incredibly cursed to you then get Posix `awk´ to add a mechanism to go from a hexadecimal number to the literal ASCII character it represents that isn¦t just printing an escape code and piping it to `printf´

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the issue if you were wondering is the fact that my build script replaced every letter in the filenames with five bytes of octal escape code, and i moved the repository to a new location with longer filenames and this was enough to make the result just big enough to no longer fit in the maximum argument size xargs allowed

i did do some minor optimizations, but mostly i fixed the problem by switching to four bytes of octal escape code

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language changes constantly but commit messages are forever

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definitely the website of mine that feels most like a deck of cards, by which i mean very many cards, by which i mean it involves a lot of files

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all i wanted to do was get my website online but i xargs: insufficient space for argument

it¦s july 4!! fuck the british!! except chumbawamba those guys are pretty swell

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