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Cake day: August 31st, 2023

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  • I do. Back on reddit, the rate of new content was enough that hot was effectively new with a quality filter. Around the end of June, when reddit pulled the api shit and people were just starting to jump ship, lemmy was a lot smaller and had less content. So if you sorted by active or hot, you would always end up seeing the same 2-year-old posts at the top every time. I set my default sort to new so that I would actually see different posts.











  • first they had machine code
    then they wrote the assembler in machine code
    then they rewrote the assembler in assembly
    and assembled it with the machine code assembler
    then they wrote the C compiler in assembly
    and assembled it with the assembly assembler
    then they rewrote the C compiler in C
    and compiled it with the assembly C compiler
    then they had the C compiler
    and everything else was written in C

    (note: this is a massive oversimplification and ignores much of the history of programming languages, but it at least gets across the idea of how bootstrapping is done)