Normalise living your best life.
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I still remember my Masters degree in distributed computing. C++ in vi (not even vim), monochromatic display, 36 computers working together to give me a bunch of SIGSEGV.
The joys of distributed algorithms. You can now get more errors, more quickly than before!
I remember writing a chat system in assembler, for DOS, using, IIRC, IPX networking. When it went wrong, one or more machines would just freeze, with the string "NETWORK ABEND" in the middle of the screen.
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I was going to ask how he knew it was Arch, but I feel like that is just setting up the next comment.
He told him
I had an internship 15 years ago where I was forced to write C++ with no internet access. I had to use a programming manual and man pages.
Like an animal.
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Just straight up raw-dogging it
No future. Lmao
Back in my day we would program using office hole puncher and going to a library every time we needed to look up some API information.
IKR, WTF reads manpages. probably boils rabbits in their spare time.