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chi42on Cool desktops don’t change

Man I loved my x61. It was like the duracell bunny. It was in my apartment in 2011 when the building burned down. The roof collapsed on it and the only thing I had to fix was the screen backlight. I used that laptop until 2020.

chi42on Fifty years ago, the internet was born in Room 3420

I used to have circuits lab in this room, before an art student had the idea of turning it into a memorial. It used to just have a paper sign on the door marking the event:

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chi42on Show HN: Chan – pure C implementation of Go channels

Pretty nifty. I like the names of the functions chan_can_recv() and chan_can_send(). Made me think think of the old cooking show "Yan Can Cook."