gerenski9 t1_j9o8xep wrote on February 23, 2023 at 11:48 AM

Reply to comment by Professor_Entropy in [WP]You're a software engineer who is a communications geek. You learned Morse code. One day, on a whim, you blink "console" with your eyelids. A translucent overlay over everything appears, highlighting items of interest. A realtime programming loop prompt blinks eagerly by livebeta

Why did your dad leave a README in your home dir? Is your home directory a git repo, or was he just trying to get your attention?

Professor_Entropy t1_j9p01ts wrote on February 23, 2023 at 3:34 PM

README is usually the first file you open in a package, and people have been using them since before Git. So yeah, it was meant to get attention.

XanderJayNix t1_j9oe9lu wrote on February 23, 2023 at 12:45 PM

At what point, and how, did the father implant the data into the kid...?

Sorrybuttotallywrong t1_j9ogzbd wrote on February 23, 2023 at 1:10 PM

It’s in his dna?

XanderJayNix t1_j9oy49w wrote on February 23, 2023 at 3:21 PM

If the message is in his DNA, that means he disappeared before he was born and he would have no memories of him. The letter would have to be written before conception for that to be possible. And if he was missing before conception, the narrator would not exist.

Ultra980 t1_j9pclfg wrote on February 23, 2023 at 4:53 PM

They're probably in an ssh session to a main server or sth, maybe everyone had a home directory.