sex -d > default.sex

"sex minus the d is greater than default sex"

Don't forget to add a .ass file for your subtitles.

I once worked supporting a guy who'd built a business intelligence system in an old dBase system that was restricted to 8.3 filenames.

The result of the filename length limitation is that almost every output file was suffixed with "anal" as a shorthand for "analysis".

If he realized, he never let on.

they definitely knew

does this have to be run on a Cox-Zucker machine? Or is a regular x84 device okay?

And people say astronomers are bad at naming things.

Pretty sure astronomers hate him

Reminds me of a tool at my job called Picard. No idea what it does, but my disappointment was palpable when I found out that there wasn't even a hint of a star trek easter egg

I genuinely think that being able to name your own invention or discovery is a big driver for scientific progress.

See the Cox Zucker Machine!

"A few weeks after we met, we realized that we had to write a joint paper because the combination of our last names, in the usual alphabetical order, is remarkably obscene."

https://www.astromatic.net/software/sextractor/

Given that there's an acknowledgement of the tool in a 1996 article, the software may even be older than sex itself

Also what a time capsule this page is lol, nothing wrong with it really... just a relic of a different era

I worked at a place where the asset management system was called "ASS" and yes, publishing assets was called "pushing to ASS". Unfortunately management eventually made the developer change it.

What does it extract? 😳

These stargazers have a little more than just wanderlust huh.

if it HAS to be -dp and you can't also use -pd then it is implemented incorrectly.

Dunno why you'd ever do -pd, considering, but still

Friend working with rodent data often had, prolly intentional, git lines like "push mouse_anal"

Fucking astronomers flexing again

Has anyone had to work with Advanced SubStation Alpha files? Extension .ass.