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		inopinatus 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1... An O appears to be a similar trigger. Our building manager persists in announcing the security tokens thus, as in, "Your new key FOB is ready.", and I feel real pain every time.

adolph 7 months ago | [–]

Just imagine saluting them and responding, “Very well; that will be all for now, Lieutenant. At twelve o’hundred we will head outside the wire.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forward_operating_base...

HPsquared 7 months ago | [–]

GotoBLAS always gets me. Named after the developer, Kazushige Goto.

jodrellblank 7 months ago | [–]

Things unexpectedly named after people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888725

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