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   Aria <3 :blobcattrans: (ariarhythmic@ohai.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Sep-2026 16:51:33 JST Aria <3 :blobcattrans:

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   9 days in, first mental breakdown! Of many I'm sure.

   It's progress though, I've been able to break the mental block on spontaneously walking out of class mid-lecture. Perhaps next time I have to do it to save at least a shred of sanity I can do it without grabbing my head and shaking.

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   amen zwa, esq. (amenzwa@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jun-2026 01:13:26 JST amen zwa, esq.

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   @amszmidt
   Right, UNIX certainly isn't LISP Machine or Smalltalk Machine, for sure.

   It is forgivable that UNIX didn't have any of these creature comforts that later systems offer, given that it came about in 1969 on a PDP-7 and a teletype. What is unforgivable is how UNIX's modern descendants essentially remained in that mid-60s time-sharing mentality, at their core.

   I don't have a better solution to offer; I just moan.😧

   PS—Years ago (in the late 1980s), a younger kid accosted me about ed's "stupid line editing", comparing ed to his favourite vi, which he uses on his SPARCstation with X Window. I explained to him that just a decade ago, many users couldn't afford the expensive VT100 to run vi, and were still using the old teletypes. And there is no need for the VDU screen, when there is a wide, long roll of paper displaying all the code, at once.🤣

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   EvolLove (evollove@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 15:23:38 JST EvolLove

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   @brigrammer @BroDrillard @PNS @snappler

   Seems that way now.
   Still, as PNS mentioned, in the 60s, right after the Civil Rights Movement, They were able to behave.

   Or so I am told. I was not there so I wouldn't know for sure.

   It all seem like a failure now though.
   Still, low IQ is not a reason to behave like monkeys. This is low impulse control paired with many issues.

   Doesn't seem fixable.