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    From vallor@21:1/5 to Joel on Fri Mar 28 02:40:29 2025
    On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:16:06 -0400, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote in <ag1cujltldqvanvj765gg6hso19j8d8kjm@4ax.com>:

    pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2025-03-28, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
    pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2025-03-27, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
    CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

    Realistically, Joel would be fine using a Celeron with no more than >>>>>>8GB of RAM.

    Ridiculous, that would function more or less, but not very *well*.

    Some people should not be allowed anywhere near a computer.
    You are one of them.

    That's just spew, I'm a fairly accomplished computer user, you aren't
    better than me, you aren't so great. You're just a leftover from
    times past, which is why you make such idiotic political statements.
    You're an emotional thinker.

    Sugar, I was using computers before you were able to poop in your
    diaper.
    I started out feeding punched cards into an IBM 3505/3525 card >>reader/punch.

    You consider yourself an accomplished computer user?
    Like snit you have no clue.


    I would absolutely compete with you, I'm perhaps younger but I'm not
    that young, I have a long history with computer use. You're not better
    than me. You're just a relic, in truth.

    Now now, let's not devolve into a pissing contest/cat fight/whatever this
    is turning into.

    While pothead's politics are atrocious, they do know a thing or two
    about computers. You, I'm not so sure about -- after all, you think
    you're Jesus.

    Meanwhile: what was the last large software project either
    of you compiled?

    ObLinux:

    For me, it was Pan, preceded by a few minutes by Linux 6.14.

    (ng snecked)

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  • From DFS@21:1/5 to vallor on Thu Mar 27 23:23:37 2025
    On 3/27/2025 10:40 PM, vallor wrote:


    Meanwhile: what was the last large software project either
    of you compiled?

    ObLinux:

    For me, it was Pan, preceded by a few minutes by Linux 6.14.

    (ng snecked)


    What's the largest program you ever wrote, by LOC?

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to DFS on Fri Mar 28 04:36:08 2025
    On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 23:23:37 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in <vs54no$1mnr1$1@dont-email.me>:

    On 3/27/2025 10:40 PM, vallor wrote:


    Meanwhile: what was the last large software project either of you
    compiled?

    ObLinux:

    For me, it was Pan, preceded by a few minutes by Linux 6.14.

    (ng snecked)


    What's the largest program you ever wrote, by LOC?

    Beats the snot out of me.

    It was certainly in perl, though, so you can start laughing now...

    One of the largest C programs I ever wrote was a curses
    tool that allowed students to sign up for accounts on
    our (then) new student-access Linux host. (Think: _lots_
    of input validation.) That was in 1992.

    Students would fill out the form, then I'd run the data through
    awk to format it for input on the HP3000 to verify the entries against
    student records. Then I'd take the results and mass-add all the students.
    I think perl4 was involved in there somewhere.

    My most recent "big" C project was to generate MD5 hashes of ASCII representations of the entire IPv4 address space (except
    for multicast addresses). There was also a tool to do a lookup
    from the hashes and give the IP address. (If you want to know what
    that was for, I'll tell you.) That was a while ago though -- lately
    I haven't been doing much, but there's a couple of C programs on my
    github, which are just screwing around. Example:

    https://github.com/vallor/subfactorial

    (That was a Farley Fud "challenge", if you remember.)

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