Am definitely human.
When I first got into BSD (way before Linux) I found man pages useful… but no way to leave them. Not even man man won’t tell you how to exit a man page!
So I world tinker, eventually needing a man page, reading what I needed – and then hard power cycle the machine. -_-
I was pretty good with computers, but that was a humbling experience. You just don’t know what you don’t know, and if you can’t ask… sometimes you just get stuck. Just like in KQ, LSL, SQ, … The Internet is (was) a blessing.
Old Russian trinary hardware? That would be quite an achievement!
She’s a sane person and as such she did not.
Sure, I mean it was a bit of a hack job. Doesn’t detract from the fact that she did something quite unique, nor does it imply that this one posted by OP is any more rain proof…
Simone did a much better job with her Truckla.
Oh boy, story time. This was six years ago (and a machine translation of what I wrote back then).
My daughter doubts that the tooth fairy exists.
She mentioned this today on the way home from school. Then we had a little chat about how “believing in X” versus “X exists” relate to one-other.
I then asked if we could find out if the tooth fairy exists? We could, for example, set a trap: then we could see for ourselves! My daughter thought that was too cruel and anyway, imagine if something happened to the tooth fairy? All right, but we can make something that won’t harm the fairy … but no, she doesn’t want the fairy to get caught. Fine, then we can put the tooth on a plate of flour so we can see the tracks? No, because fairies can fly! Then maybe we can make a little “roof” so the tooth fairy has to land and crawl? Yes, that was accepted.
…But how big is such a tooth fairy really? I have to admit that I’ve never considered that … have you? I made a roof out of a plastic container, but my daughter thought that a fairy is definitely smaller, so we settled for a corner of the roof - yes, now the fairy can’t fly under!
I’ve also talked to her about whether “no footprints” means “the tooth fairy doesn’t exist” and whether “footprints” means "the tooth fairy exists (or whether there might be fairies even if there are no footprints). So now we’re waiting anxiously to see if we can see any traces tomorrow! (Hint: yes, there are traces: you can see that the tooth fairy has been on her knees and tried to reach the tooth, but couldn’t. So there’s a small letter instead of a coin.)
Oh yes, how we lie to the coming generation… Forgive me, daughter!
The following day after school, she had brought a friend home and I casually asked if she’d checked on the trap? She had not! They both raced up to her room and I could hear the shouts of glee. They definitely believed in the tooth fairy! But also, my daughter was somewhat distraught and wrote an apology letter for having teased the fairy and ask for forgiveness. Such a sweet kiddo. Still is.
As well as the yeet keyword, I’m really friggin’ diggin’ this. [modernisation required]
It’s even funnier with “point of sale” machines (ie. cash registers and/or payment terminals). We just sent the customer our newest and best POS! 😂👌