> When did people become so helpless? I was offloading interactive workloads via X11 back in the 90s, and these days it’s to a near-instantly provisioned public cloud instance. If someone can’t get by in a pinch with vim and a command prompt, then I don’t particularly want them in my crew.
Well back in my day we had to timeshare the punch card machine and our punch cards only had zeros. Ones were too wasteful and anyone who asked for them would have been fed to the lusers.
I can only urge you to consider an upgrade from punched media to the new-fangled latest in magnetic drum storage, even if only in order to build a fuller appreciation for The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer [1]
Well back in my day we had to timeshare the punch card machine and our punch cards only had zeros. Ones were too wasteful and anyone who asked for them would have been fed to the lusers.