Ever since I first read it in 2014, the following quote has stuck with me. I've added it almost every internal company wiki I've managed.
One odd detail that I think was vital to how the group [at Bell Labs] functioned was a result of the first Unix being run on a clunky minicomputer with terminals in the machine room.
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Please consider using the international date format (ex. 2021-04-14 or YYYY-MM-DD) instead of a local date format (ex. 4/14/2021 or D/MM/YYYY).
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The RelpAnarchySheet.pdf (152 KB) is a worksheet designed with the goal of making relationship negotiatings more successful. I really liked the various Relationship Anarchy Smorgasbords, but I wanted a more interactive tool.
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I'm moving to a new apartment soon and it has a good number of windows with lots of light. I'm excited to buy some plants and I wanted to know which ones are non-toxic to Mochi cat, have been shown to help clean the air, and are easier to acquire and care for.
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The current Creative Commons infrastructure buildouts use Debian GNU/Linux AWS EC2 instances with EBS volumes. Depending on chance (or race conditions), the mapping of block devices can be different from one host to another or between reboots.
Occasionally, devices can respond to discovery in a different order in subsequent instance starts, which causes the device name to change. (Amazon EBS and NVMe on Linux Instances - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud)
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