OCTADE or OCTAD is a retro word that means either an octal digit of three bits, or an octal octet or an eight-bit byte. Thus an octade, depending on its historical use, is either 3 bits or 8 bits.

OCTADE was used to specify eight bits, as opposed to BYTE which is not necessarily eight bits as the word BYTE could signify any of several numbers of bits.

This yields the retro 1337 numbers of 38 and 83. The number 38 is one more than 37 so a bit more elite a bit cooler. Thus it owns cardinally shorter byterz.

83 mod 38 equals 7, the highest octal digit. 838 mod 383 equals 72 or 9 times 8 which is 8 squared plus 8.

8338 mod 3883 equals 572 which is 72 times 8 minus 4 or 71.5 times 8.

8383 mod 3838 equals 707 which is 88 times 8 plus 3.

I prefer the old word OCTADE to the word BYTE. OCTADE sports a Euro-peon dignity and gravitas like an Internet serf ready to surf the worknet like pwnd peons. This is very true when pronouncing OCTADE with a thick Pennsyltucky Dutch or Yinzer accent. The Bostonian pronunciation sounds like bad beginner German or muffled mumbling of 'lactate.'

OCTADE or OCTAD was also used to describe a poem of eight stanzas.

OCTADE was also used to describe a period of eight years, or two leap years.

OCTADECANAL is a pheromone found in butterflies. It is butterfly perfume. I would not wear butterfly cologne. But I would sell it. Who would buy and wear my snobby smell? With wordplay we can call it OCTADE CHANNEL No. 8 . All rights reserved, ye French odor snooties.

Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':

Burroughs B5500 Information Processing Systems REFERENCE MANUAL
https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/burroughs/LargeSystems/B5000_5500_5700/1021326_B5500_RefMan_196705.pdf

Philips Data Systems Product Range - April 1971
https://www.vintage-calculators.nl/Philips%20productoverzicht%201971.pdf

Is there another name for octet that means 8 bits?
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-another-name-for-octet-that-means-8-bits

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Many men wish to confine His creation to their own mental cages.

I do not agree that Job is a work of fiction. There was an ancient man named Job. Events from his life were re-written and poetically embellished into a new story that tells the future. Think traditional histories meet Aesop's Fables meets Jehovah's long-term plans, and that is a half-decent way to describe the purpose of the Bible. The writers were seized upon by the Holy Spirit, and driven to write the words they produced. None of it was the mere product of a human mind--a greater mind was in those men moving them exactly how to manifest the future on scrolls and parchments.

God's concern is not over teaching history. His concern is the culmination of history, the end of history and the new beginning of a new history described far in advance--showing the pattern of a new reality for man to come in the far distant future. The Book of Job, like the Book of Jonah, is prophecy about the coming of Jesus of Nazareth and the birth of a new creation flowing out from the Nazarene.

In fact, the entire Old Testament is about Jesus of Nazareth:

"And the Father himself, which hath sent me, HATH BORNE WITNESS OF ME. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. And ye have not his WORD abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: AND THEY ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME."

The Old Testament books were not written to instruct us in history. They were written to identify the Son of Man who would come into the world and spread the knowledge of the Father's love abroad into all the nations. Even though there are records of ancient historical people in those books, the way they are presented is so as to tell us who those people foreshadow and symbolize--the man Jesus Christ and the new kingdom he would establish for the ages ahead.

Revelation was dictated to a man named John on the Isle of Patmos. John had visions and he was told what to write in the visions. The book of Genesis was written in the same way. It was visions given to Moses, telling him what to write. The Book of Genesis and the Book of Revelation are the exact same story shown in different idioms of their respective ages.

Genesis uses a pastiche of older ancestral histories organized like lego blocks to build the future God has planned. So although based loosely upon real ancestral histories, Genesis is not meant to be read literally or as a history. It is meant to be read to foretell a far distant future--the day and age that we currently inhabit.

Revelation tells roughly the same plan but is more focused on the time nearer Christ's ministry. Revelation uses more direct symbols for the future as opposed to the Genesis use of ancestral totem patchworked as a future mosaic.

Then of course both Christ and the Father state plainly that they teach in parables.

snac2 Fediverse server

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Say bye bye to SystemD.

If you must use Linux for work stuff and development and need dependability then Debian Stable or Testing will usually give the least headaches. If you like self-flagellating to fix all the latest breaking changes yourself then maybe Arch Linux will be your preferred punisher.

If you want to use the vast Arch AUR but don't want to piece together your system you can try Manjaro, which uses Arch but comes pre-built similar to Linux Mint.

If you're into pen testing then ParrotOS has the tools bundled ready to roll.

If you're paranoid there is Whonix, Qubes, and Tails.

If you need ultra-fast with ultra-low resource usage you might try Mabox, TinyCore, Puppy, or Slitaz.

If you are sick of all the crazy quirks and constant changes you can ditch *nix altogether and try running Haiku OS.

Or you can join the Luddite club, drop your computer off a cliff, and get farmin'. Cuz with all these conflicting and competing choices, all of which suck time like a tornado, I'm beginning to think that back breaking work in the sun and rain is better than a zillion hours of busy work keeping up with pointless changes in software. Plus calloused hands are cooler than carpal tunnel keyboard mitts.

How much filesystem storage space does gotosocial eat up?

"There are no hidden backdoors or privacy concerns because the entire codebase is open to peer review."

Alt...

"There are no hidden backdoors or privacy concerns because the entire codebase is open to peer review."

Many maths can be represented as modular sums. Everything is sums and sums of sums. Some sums sum some more than some sums sum.

#Calexico - Hair Like Spanish Moss

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Fall drizzle in the forest feels supernatural.

"But even when you do a good or a fair job you're going to get raked over the coals by the folks who feel persecuted."

I got a couple of Racknerd servers. Racknerd periodically sends me a email telling me the RAID controllers are broke and I have to manually migrate my servers. Every time it is a HUGE hassle.

This keeps everything entirely under your own control.

#SelfHosting #WebMasters #WebLords #HestiaCP #VPS #Domains

#Linux #Distros

Alt...

"The reason there are so many distro forks is so that everyone can share a donate button because they made an ubercool wallpaper, theme and some preinstalled useless programs. And most important beside the donate button: don't forget to print in front of the webpage: "DESIGNED FOR BEGINNERS, SPEED AND STABILITY". ⇒ $$$ profit"

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We might need Attila to straighten him out.

EEE - (E)mbrace, (E)xtend, (E)xtinguish

you forgot that option

I rather like the pic I took of my grandkid Onix here.

"Words are not violence. Violence is violence."

~ Some FBI guy or cop whose name and agency I don't know

When eating chicken one must watch out for bones. When eating echidna one must watch out for little swords.

A group of mad scientists named Folger, Maxwell, Horton, and Starbuck created an elixir that triggers the coffee gene.

#coffee

Sometimes when someone coughed we would say, "Have another cigarette, why doncha?"

Are you arguing over two kinds of toilets? One flushes and distributes the payload through a vast sewer system. The other is a latrine pit under a cardboard outhouse. Decentralized vs. centralized 101.

"Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him." (1 John 3:15)

"Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him." (1 John 3:15)

"Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him." (1 John 3:15)