<p>Q: what property do the Linux system administrator and the organic chemist share?<br />A: they make tar</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Copper good. Reps like</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fed.qaz.red/@elithebearded" class="u-url mention">@<span>elithebearded</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toad.social/@grumpybozo" class="u-url mention">@<span>grumpybozo</span></a></span> in B, apparently</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toad.social/@grumpybozo" class="u-url mention">@<span>grumpybozo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> </p><p>Wasn&#39;t glob the first system utility written in C instead of assembly?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> yep I remember you talking about their “unique” part numbering a while ago around the time you were looking at their dev board schematics and found the one with the external clock that relied on USB being plugged in</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> oof yeah gowin, right up there with WCH “we don’t publish errata because our chips are perfect”</p>

<p>these are not the actual part numbers because their part numbering system will give you brainrot in and of itself, without this particular issue</p>

<p>i suspect what happened was that they were contractually obligated to ship &quot;PARTNO&quot; (labelled &quot;PARTNO6&quot;) to someone and they couldn&#39;t do it with the die they had due to errata or something, and they didn&#39;t want to respin it to fix the errata, so they just shipped the next generation as &quot;PARTNO&quot; (labelled &quot;PARTNOC6&quot;) and fulfilled their contract this way</p><p>this is pure guesswork though</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://60228.dev/@leo" class="u-url mention">@<span>leo</span></a></span> that would be funny<br />&quot;Yeah for 7 months in 2018, the Core i7-8700K was actually an Itanium chip&quot;</p>