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   Kris Nóva (nova@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 02:48:04 JST Kris Nóva

   The GNU Makefile for `coreutils` is 26,000 lines long.

   I can't make this shit up.

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     Ross Burton (ross@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 02:56:51 JST Ross Burton

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     @nova that’s automake generated, right? Hideous thing but hopefully you never need to look behind the curtain.

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     depoll (depoll@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 03:01:28 JST depoll

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     @nova I feel like you could stop after "I can't make" #terriblepuns

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     Scott Hain (elejia@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 03:10:34 JST Scott Hain

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     @nova between that and binutils... ?

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     Karrick (karrick@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 03:18:27 JST Karrick

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     @nova GNU’s Makefile language is Turing complete…

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     ff (ff@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 03:37:12 JST ff

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     @nova :blobfoxdizzy:

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     Sminez :ferris: (sminez@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 04:07:55 JST Sminez :ferris:

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     @nova that's... I'm actually curious to know why on earth it's that long.

     But only in a "tonight at 9: world's worst air disasters" kind of curious ?

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     Florent Vilmart (flovilmart@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 04:37:54 JST Florent Vilmart

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     @nova the OG mono repo!

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     Peter Sullivan (ceemage@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 04:49:39 JST Peter Sullivan

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     @nova The only thing O know about GNU make is the urban legend that, if you type "make love," it responds "not war." Or is that actually TRUE?

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     the1bunk (the1bunk@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 06:41:28 JST the1bunk

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     @nova does it have a sendmail.cf hidden in there too? Yeesh.

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     Luke Kanies (lkanies@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 12:46:24 JST Luke Kanies

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     @nova I see what you did there, heh heh heh