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  1. 20k cards ought to be enough for anyone on Programmer Buys Original Ada Lovelace Painting On eBay · · Score: 1
    If you read http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html, Ada Lovelace clearly was the inventor of software bloat.

    "Perhaps the immense number of cards required for the solution of any rather complicated problem may appear to be an obstacle; but this does not seem to be the case. There is no limit to the number of cards that can he used. Certain stuffs require for their fabrication not less than twenty thousand cards, and we may unquestionably far exceed even this quantity."

    Knowing that she was bled to death at the age of 36 she ought to be the patron saint of programmers everywhere...
  2. No prisoner goes hungry at Guantanamo now on Diffing Guantanamo Bay SOP Manuals · · Score: 1
    According to this new manual from the Ministry of Love, there is no longer a hunger strike at Guantanamo, it has been renamed Voluntary Total Fast (VTF). Recreation has been replaced by exercise. Mental Health, has been replaced by Behavioral Healthcare which principally involves a great deal of restraint, generously applied to the prisoner.

    "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength"

  3. Cylinder Fragmentation gets worse on Long Block Data Standard Finalized · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that the number of blocks per cylinder must be an integer. Increasing block size from 512 to 4096 makes the amount of storage lost to fragmentation at the cylinder boundary much worse.