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You’ll forgive me if I ever-so-briefly misread your boilerplate link as “And then I woke up.”

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Cygwin on Win7 back in the day was pretty close tbh.

I don’t know about that. Non-binary files have been put into bin directories for decades at this point. (Feel free to marvel at the analogy.)

Delete the contents and it’s not just binaries going to the bit-bucket.

The joke here is more “Tony Lazuto said to execute these files.”

Hasn’t Office worked under Wine since forever?

(And if not, what are the show stoppers?)

wait until you learn about .tar.lz

Kind of redundant. Both .zip and .rar store an index of files within the archive and are a bit ‘inside-out’ when it comes what we get from tar.gz.

That is, ZIP is pretty close to what you’d get if you first gzipped all your files and then put them into a .tar.

RAR does a little more (if I remember correctly), such as generating a dictionary of common redundancies between files and then uses that knowledge to compress the files individually, but better. Something akin to a .tar file is still the result though.

Bzip2 compression is often surprisingly good with text files, especially log files. It seems to “see” redundancies there - and logs often have a lot of it - far better than gzip and sometimes even lzma.

Anyway, if I saw a bunch of tar.bz2 files, that’s what I’d expect to find in them.

There’s also a Fediverse plugin for WordPress if you already have a host. Caveat: I have only seen it on Fediverse directories. No idea whether it’s any good.

“This wouldn’t have happened if you had told me where you keep the f**king catnip, Susan!”

Depends on the size of the company.

[I have told this story elsewhere before]

I thought I was so clever once. I taught a word filter about “th” thinking that would solve the problem, but it still got stuck on Scunthorpe. mfw.

Had to step through what it was doing. It had hit a rule that treated ‘oo’ the same as ‘u’ which, at least sound-wise, is valid for some words in some dialects. e.g. Consider “book”, which is identical to “buck” for many people. You can imagine why that might want to be caught.

To save you the head scratching, it had spotted the ‘c’ then a double-‘o’ then the ‘n’ and threw it out as containing a known racial slur.

The filter was for a random string generator so that it wouldn’t generate strings with bad words in them. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Since it was unlikely that it was going to generate “Scunthorpe” anyway, the problem remained unfixed.

Managers might not like people but they don’t want to get rid of them. There’s no cheap thrill from micromanaging an AI.