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2 to summon a daemon in the dark.

4 to resign from their positions as leaders of the mailing list, blaming the daemon for their stress.

Half the community to insist that daemons are against their philosophy.

The other half to argue that it's an improvement on the old days when they had to bash rocks together to start a fire to have light.

One to accidentally try connecting the new lightbulb to a pipe, before realising it doesn't accept stdin.

A vocal 10% of the community to insist that dark mode is better.

A system tester to insist that the room is still light during working hours. Credit where due: https://devhumor.com/media/it-jobs-explained-with-a-broken-l...

(There's more where this is coming from. If you want to help me write a book for ages 5-7 entitled "ed and the awk", I have a first draft and would enjoy sharing it).



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