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   Message 164,172 of 164,974   
   DFS to Chris Ahlstrom   
   Re: Get to know your files and folders!   
   30 Jan 26 15:20:15   
   
   From: nospam@dfs.com   
      
   On 1/28/2026 7:23 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   > DFS wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >   
   >> On 1/27/2026 7:02 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   >>> DFS wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>>> code file: https://filebin.net/d726wbjyc20gd29d   
   >>>> (link expires in 6 days)   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Enjoy!   
   >>>   
   >>> Thank you for your Linux advocacy.   
   >>   
   >> Did you run the program?   
   >   
   > Nah.   
      
   It's a cool program, but not as cool as those graphical representations   
   of your hard drive.   
      
   https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921   
      
      
   I like this pie-chart view too:   
   https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer   
      
      
      
   >> I wrote all of it on Windows, and it ran 100% unchanged on Linux/WSL.   
   >>   
   >> It's very nifty.  But it chokes if your top-level directory has a lot of   
   >> subdirectories.   
   >>   
   >> Time to put your 'good enough to get into physics grad school but not   
   >> make it out' [1] brain to work and fix it!   
   >   
   > Nah. I've got a lotta other code to fix.   
   >   
   > I won't do your homework for you, bwah!  :-D   
      
   No award for you!   
      
      
      
   > [1] Heh, I was taking a course in quantum mechanics, and feeling   
   >      like I wasn't getting it. Talking to the professor, he said   
   >      that, unlike some others, I seemed to be understanding it.   
   >      Wha?   
      
      
   After all that schooling you became a lowly programmer like the rest of us.   
      
   In case quantum computing doesn't frighten you:   
   https://wrfranklin.org/Teaching/quantum-f2022/blog/   
      
      
   >      It wasn't until I took some statistics-related courses (e.g.   
   >      systems & signals and signal-detection theory) that I grokked   
   >      the Schrödinger equation.   
   >   
   >      Schrödinger was apparently quite a randy fellow, having   
   >      multiple affairs and a live-in mistress.   
      
      
   Sexual abuse allegations   
      
   Around 1926, at the age of 39, Schrödinger tutored a 14-year-old girl   
   named Itha "Ithi" Junger. Walter Moore relates in his 1989 biography of   
   Schrödinger that the lessons "included 'a fair amount of petting and   
   cuddling'" and Schrödinger "had fallen in love with his pupil".[71]   
   Moore further relates that "not long after her seventeenth birthday,   
   they became lovers". The relationship continued and in 1932 she became   
   pregnant (then aged 20[72]). "Erwin tried to persuade her to have the   
   child; he said he would take care of it, but he did not offer to divorce   
   [his wife] Anny ... in desperation, Ithi arranged for an abortion."[73]   
      
   Moore describes Schrödinger having a "Lolita complex." He quotes from   
   Schrödinger's diary from the time where he said that "men of strong,   
   genuine intellectuality are immensely attracted only by women who,   
   forming the very beginning of the intellectual series, are as nearly   
   connected to the preferred springs of nature as they." A 2021 Irish   
   Times article summarized this as a "predilection for teenage girls", and   
   denounced Schrödinger as "a serial abuser whose behaviour fitted the   
   profile of a paedophile in the widely understood sense of that   
   term."[74] Schrödinger's grandson and his mother were unhappy with the   
   accusation made by Moore, and once the biography was published, their   
   family broke off contact with him.[75]"   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#Sexual_abuse_allegations   
      
      
   Stallman and Feeb would've definitely defended his behavior.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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