Ever wonder how buildings get built to a certain elevation? Probably not, but someone like me makes a benchmark for all of the tradesmen to use. This one is for a new middle school that thousands of people will use. There is a hidden history in every structure you enter. If you ever enter one of mine, rest assured that a lot of care, pride, and even love was given throughout the building process.
I started an instance a couple of weeks ago on a digital ocean droplet and have been messing around with a few users. Cost is sustainable. Everything seems like a black box since I'm not familiar with the software yet. Setup had a lot of parts, but it wasn't hard and the instructions were great. I want to thank you @Gargron for putting Mastodon together, it is quite an achievement. A lot of people talk about writing good code and don't do anything. You went for it and did it!
Like this 1970 paper "The Nucleus of a Multiprogramming System"... I kind of want to just... *hug* it? It does such a good job of explaining what IS a process, what IS a peripheral, and ultimately what IS an operating system. In 11 pages!
https://www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/archive/2017/fall/33100-1/papers/nucleus.pdf
Computer science papers from say 1955 to 1975 are so exciting to read. There's so much fundamental stuff that we have mostly been iterating on variations of for the last 40 years. These variations are of course important, but nothing beats the thrill of reading contemporary discovery/invention of the fundamentals.
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