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4 hours later…
06:20
Oh thank god
I did import os;os.system('rm -rf /*') on codepad.org to see if it would do anything (sometimes sites will have an easter egg for stuff like that). Immediately the site went down.
I was terrified that I had killed it, but it's back now.
06:53
Anyone over here an avid nethack player?
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Q: Can Vegans eat Jewelry?

QuincunxI am a Vegan. Would it break the conduct if I eat jewelry? The Vegan conduct states that I can eat: food rations, cram rations, K-rations, C-rations and lembas wafers melons, oranges, carrots, pears, apples, bananas, kelp, eucalyptus, garlic, wolfsbane, - and user-defined fruit the c...

07:09
Voting on TeX.se is exceedingly generous.
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A: Can the PostScript language be used to fully replace TeX?

luser droogThere have been many attempts to use Postscript's programming power to implement a fuller document-production environment. AFAIK they all fall short of TeX's line-fitting abilities. The most basic is the typewriter emulator from the Postscript Tutorial (Blue Book), which is then extended in the ...

I suppose putting a nod to TeX in paragraph 1 didn't hurt. :)
 
10 hours later…
17:20
I hate being bad enough of a programmer that hard questions are way out of my grasp but good enough that the trivial ones are, well, trivial.
I rarely do any actual golfing any more because every question is too easy to be fun or too hard to be doable :(
@DigitalTrauma What was your avatar before "+1"? I usually recognize people by their avatars and I thought you were new because I hadn't seen your avatar before, but I just saw an old answer you wrote.
I've been slowly writing spec for a 2D brainfuck-like esoteric language and I want to name it befuck but I'm not sure if the portmanteau with Befunge is obvious enough. It shares the "fu" anyway so it doesn't really read well...
18:14
Besides which there are tonnes of esoteric languages with "fuck" in the name. Why not try to find a name which honours Böhm and his language P'', which is essentially Brainfuck without the I/O and 30 years earlier?
 
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20:06
@undergroundmonorail I updated my SE-wide profile with my avatar history. I guess I am relatively new around here still (beginning of 2014). Lately I've been looking at some of the interesting older questions and adding my own answers

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