She lives in the Mary Poppins house and has to stabilize her stack of cards like this every time the neighbour fires the canon.
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months agoShe looks like she KNOWS you’re thinking of taking one single punchcard from the middle of the pile, thus rendering the whole thing useless.
And she’s not having your shit.
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
one can number them with a pen, and then find the missing one or guess what was there
msage@programming.dev 2 months ago
Ooohh, did they have any redundancy in them?
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, it’s called human brain. If it makes sense that a missing punch card would contain jump to address from some register, then make another one such.
I’m joking.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 2 months ago
All your need to do is drop in one card randomly with all the holes punched out to screw up those things… there was a name for doing that to be a dick but I forgot and am drunk right now so I don’t feel like looking it up.
A_A@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, she certainly has the look of someone who knows what a huge amount of work these piles of cards represent. There would have been no turbulent kids running around these.
kalpol@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Look at those forearms. Absolutely she knows how much work this is. Also absolutely she numbered them all in pencil.