I am always cognizant that although life sucks the alternative is not that great.

4K? Luxury!!

I disconnect the one backup drive when not in use. So. far, so good.

Did it work?

But mass murder is so gauche!

Like what? *crickets* Oh. Right.

Thank you! I will give this a try tonight!

This could have been a rant, but it's a question that I am serious about getting an answer for rather than multiple downvotes from Stackoverflowers who have too much free time and way too much bile: I love noir fiction for the use of similes (and metaphors, but they lack useful key phrases for this exercise). I want to create a script of some kind to scan through a text corpus and pull out the words in a sentence which follow the word "like" to the end of the sentence. Or "as if". I haven't used grep, sed and awk for many years now but memory tells me that's the fast way to write this little script. Am I totally on the wrong track? It's a newbie's question for sure, which is why I won't take it to SO. :~

Raised by wolves in the stacks of the public library

You are (or were) a technical writer. Admit it. Seriously, that is possibly the most user-friendly explanation of the compression algorithm I have ever read. r/ELI5 must love you.

Nothing; I was OOO when it all happened. I always take the company Mac home, but I ordered a big-a$$ monitor and a Jarvis standing desk like the one I had at work. The wife promptly stole the desk.

I have a feeling "...(nevermind)" not only has considerable backstory of an unpleasant nature, but that you and your wife are taking care of the poor girl. If so, good on you. It's sometimes hard to raise other people's kids.

"Practically a true story" You have lived a terrible life, mon frere.

I know each of these translations (in this thread) to be both correct and true. I am utterly flabbergasted by how often these phrases are used in job descriptions. I suspect they use them to keep mature programmers away, and to hire naive ones who can be abused.

I should have a .sig here, somewhere. Maybe Kibo can lend me some of his.

Was his name Tuttle, and did he look like Robert DeNiro?

Indeed. In these cases, HR represents the company's desire to be rid of an employee without repercussions to the company. Take vacation days now and get started looking. May I recommend a _sane_ workplace for a change?

I would have been four in 1960, OP. Still interested in magnets, toads, bicycles and bunnies. I could already read comic books by then, so my fate was sealed. First real was Fortran and BASIC in whatever year Reagan was elected President. I think Windows 1.0 was still about seven years away? Reading all the replies, I have to say it's nice to have someone my own age to play with.

Right. My memories of really old movies is getting old, too. *sighs heavily, pulls teeth from glass in nightstand* I really have to get it together better in the morning.

Geeks have probably all seen Harvey. I mean the six foot rabbit, not the movie.

Notepad?

I thought that's why we had the Munroe Doctrine?