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Cake day: November 9th, 2024

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  • They voted to cut the FD in a neighboring town. Then they found out the fire response would jump from 8 minutes to 20+ nearly triple and everyone in that area would have huge increases in home owners insurance rates.

    They recalled the vote and upped the budget within a month. Fucking morons.

    Edit: I was off on the response times but it was moving the main department at least 6 miles farther from the closest houses to the department they wanted to close.




  • Yeah. But that’s since 2001. So 24 years of Unix. Pretty sure that covers most recent grads or new hires ;)

    I started on BASIC Apple IIe (had the full numpad for playing math munchers faster!)

    Then we had a system 6 Performa that later got upgraded to System 7 then even 8 before I was able to save for a PC (Pentium 3 333mhz) during my last year of high school.


  • Was taught using Apple2 then Macs in Jr High.

    I built my own PC in high school (late 90s), upgraded it through college, then switched back to Mac’s when they went Intel.

    I can’t muddle through Ruby, Python, Perl, Php C/C++, Objective-C and Swift. But wrote Actionscript, JS, and HTML/CSS for a living for 15 years.

    How you start doesn’t matter and Mac’s are still better than Chromebooks. They have Unix shells FFS.