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@izaya There's a good reason.

There's no standard OS package manager, so when there's multiple competing standards there's a natural desire to create an abstraction layer.

Furthermore, you don't individually control the contents of the OS package manager. It's whatever suits the needs of the OS, not the user.

For a long time, the "python" package across most OSes was python2 even when python3 was recommended, for backwards compatibility with unmaintained python2 software.

Waiting For #UNLOCK...

Some school buses parked since start of the pandemic near my house. Its been a while since children saw school.
Instead of a landscape I thought why not paint some vehicles, so I did this outdoor study.

The timelapse of the process can be viewed here - youtu.be/DGyQHb4vCV0

I had to research the feasibility of making a religion out of modern cryptography.

Turns out, while this would be possible, it would be very Diffie-cult.

And seriously, don't do it, or you'll go to Hell, man.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerDadJokes/comments/p91tye/i_had_to_research_the_feasibility_of_making_a/

All cryptography is public-key cryptography if you did it wrong enough.

> In the early days, a number of terms for the practitioners in computing were suggested in the Communications of the ACM: turingineer, turologist, flow-charts-man, applied meta-mathematician, and applied epistemologist, comptologist, hypologist, computics has also been suggested.

"Turingineers" sound much cooler than software engineers. "Our comptologists are busy turingineering a new software package for that..." Too bad it didn't become a thing (but that would also be discriminatory to functional programmers, I guess).

The virtual data center – a 1401 3D simulation
https://rolffson.de

(submitted by beprogrammed)

Markdown vs reStructuredText for teaching materials

https://nudgedelastic.band/2021/08/markdown-vs-restructuredtext-for-teaching-materials/

"Software piracy tapes seized"

https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-22?view=theater#page/n0

#TIL You can still get new APL programming keycaps for your IBM Model M from Unicomp. https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/USAPLSET #ModelM #APL

Triangle lore

did you know the soyuz return capsule's centre of mass is offset 20° from its centre line so it can abuse aerodynamics to brake better in the atmosphere?

Debian 11 bullseye has been released! https://bits.debian.org/2021/08/bullseye-released.html

Watercolor time during vacation.

All images have now generated and the builder is cooling back down! Testing continues before they are released to the mirrors #ReleasingDebianBullseye