Post #1066163
2026-03-30 18:48 UTC
Working Title: Make Auld the New Bits That'll Fit in Print()
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"Moon landing. Stonewall. Chappaquiddick. Manson. Woodstock. ARPANET. Altamont. My Lai. RFC 1. Unix. Twelve months. One species. All of that at once."
Susan didn’t look up. "History is full of clutter."
"Clutter is random," Dale said. "This is overbooking."
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@paul@m.pcgt.link 2026-03-30 18:49
She sighed, set the screwdriver down. "You say that about every year you get obsessed with." "Not like this one." "What’s special about this one?" Dale tapped the terminal with a fingernail, like he was trying to wake it up. "Signed, unsigned, null, same bits. One bug, and time dumps you at minus one." Susan frowned. "Dumps you? How? Are you saying they crash landed?" Dale nodded once, satisfied. "Exactly."