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Written by Norman Wilson on 2025-01-22 at 01:27

I hate bailing on the underlying truth of any problem, but I'm just not willing to spend a few weeks figuring out how consoles get mapped to video cards in Linux. I've found a band-aid that solves my problem (actually it involves ripping off an old band-aid that is no longer needed). Fuck it. I want my old comprehensible Unix back.

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-12-23 at 16:38

Make America Greenland Again!

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-12-15 at 19:15

Larry Hogan thinks the universe of drones is in Orion's belt.

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-12-14 at 19:33

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/12/trudeau-unveils-new-campaign-slogan-i-got-jordan-peterson-to-leave/

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-12-06 at 15:04

Geneviève Bergeron

Hélène Colgan

Nathalie Croteau

Barbara Daigneault

Anne-Marie Edward

Maud Haviernick

Maryse Laganière

Maryse Leclair

Anne-Marie Lemay

Sonia Pelletier

Michèle Richard

Annie St-Arneault

Annie Turcotte

Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-12-02 at 20:41

If you don't live in #Toronto you won't get the joke:

[#]Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster has announced his departure, but won't tell anybody when his term will be finished.

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-12-01 at 01:56

I tried, for example, asking chatgpt

-- say david

David

-- say mayer

Mayer

-- say them together

(Red-tinted error box: I'm unable to produce a response)

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-12-01 at 01:55

Via Justine Moore @venturetwins on the old place:

ChatGPT refuses to say the name “David Mayer,” and no one knows why.

If you try to get it to write the name, the chat immediately ends.

People have attempted all sorts of things - ciphers, riddles, tricks - and nothing works.

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-11-25 at 17:56

[#]TIL #Linux has a fourth timestamp field on files: `btime' or birth time or when the file was created. (As distinct from ctime, around in #Unix since the 1970s, which is when the i-node was last changed--file contents or metadata--even though some people still get confused and think c stands for create.)

Since it's beyond #POSIX, stat(2) doesn't return it; Linux-specific statx(2) does. stat(1) prints it.

Useful for forensic debugging, which is how I stumbled on it.

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-11-24 at 16:38

I'm not a fan of parades or of Christmas music, but the carols played by a steel band I hear from down the block--where the Santa Claus parade is warming up--are kinda pleasant. Also kinda #Toronto.

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-11-19 at 21:40

Just for the record, fuck cancer.

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-11-12 at 23:34

BING

BING

BING

Zone 6 Alarm

Ambulatory Procedure

over and over for more than 20 minutes

finally stopped

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-11-11 at 20:50

[#]BoringTravel ... but the sun comes out as we pass #Whitby. More clouds ahead. Will I make it home without getting wet?

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-11-11 at 20:42

[#]BoringTravel Raining in #Oshawa.

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-11-07 at 17:19

Bent lamp standards but no broken men in sight. Keeping my eyes open.

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-11-01 at 14:02

[#]BoringTravel Racing backwards down the east side of Lake Champlain! Train changes direction at Rutland owing to track configuration.

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-10-29 at 21:36

[#]BoringTravel To state the bleeding obvious, First Class on Acela is a bit more comfortable for sitting than long-distance coach, though probably not for sleeping.

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-10-29 at 19:52

[#]BoringTravel Unreasonably tired, but I didn't sleep as well in coach as I would have done in sleeper. Back in #UnionStation #MetropolitanLounge to relax and cool off. Next train is an hour and a half away.

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-10-25 at 21:38

[#]BoringTravel Boarding started some minutes after scheduled departure, but us Business Class passengers had to wait: some delay servicing the Business Class cars.

Yes, plural: two Business cars today. First time I've seen that. I boarded the wrong one at first. I'll go up and get the big bag I left in the first car's luggage rack later.

Anyway I'm on board now.

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Written by Norman Wilson on 2024-10-24 at 23:17

To be fair, it's probably Roy Thompson Hall making the rules; the TSO are just clients. But I want them to make noise about it.

I stopped in at the Patron Services desk to register my displeasure, and I plan to send e-mail (they gave me an address) as well. Should check whether RTH get arts funding from the city too.

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