Borborygymus

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by Borborygymus 1mo ago
I guess they must be doing something wrong.
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by Borborygymus 2mo ago
As an old school Free Software kinda guy, I was a little shocked at the lack of enthusiastic support for "if you do not own the source code, you are not in control". From where does this apathy come?
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by Borborygymus 2mo ago
There was a talk about Node.js at Open Source Bridge in Portland in 2011 or 2012 (nice con). I was volunteering doing mic handling at that talk. I remember the speaker saying about how they had no idea about how to debug node programs. My p
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by Borborygymus 2mo ago
> Or maybe you pipe into xargs and pray your filenames don’t have spaces Or maybe use: `find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ...` I guess you're still hoping your filenames don't contain an ASCII NUL, although that's a fairly reaso
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by Borborygymus 3mo ago
Remember COBOL's EXHIBIT?
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by Borborygymus 3mo ago
Java is swell and all, but having seen how the vendor treats even their large customers, I could never in good conscience recommend them to anyone I do business with. Better to miss out on the latest features and work with more respectful v
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by Borborygymus 3mo ago
more efficient than what? I loathe this marketing speak.
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by Borborygymus 3mo ago
All Operating Systems suck. Linux sucks less for things I care about, and has done for a long time - much longer than 7 years for my purposes. I too am required to use a Windows machine for work, which seems to get worse with every release.
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by Borborygymus 7mo ago
> with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure Linux. > AI The slop people are complaining about. > and enterprise solutions. Business users are totally fed up of poorly-function Co-Pilot buttons in every UI. The people who sign co
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by Borborygymus 8mo ago
The child predators are not stalking the adult forums. They're in the "for kids" ones. This "protect the kids" nonsense needs to be called out for what it is - a sham.
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by Borborygymus 8mo ago
Microsoft has long been a company where the left hand and the right hand are not well coordinated. It'll be interesting to see if they can reconcile the "everything must be AI" mantra from the executives with the crystal clea
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by Borborygymus 10mo ago
I concur.
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by Borborygymus 11mo ago
I always wondered if it would be feasible to make the headlights produce polarized light (e.g. vertical), and have windscreens filter out that polarization... I guess it would only work if the scattering of light off of whatever is being i
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by Borborygymus 1y ago
I guess Scumbag College's University Challenge performance must have edged them out.
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by Borborygymus 1y ago
Funny to see Emacs with a Y for small... one of the humorous expansions of "Emacs" I once read was, "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping", alluding to how bloated it was perceived to be.
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by Borborygymus 2y ago
There's not really a standard definition of an AI PC, but if there's anything beyond marketing, it would take the form of a neural processing unit, which supposedly makes some AI-related task fast by providing hardware acceleratio
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by Borborygymus 2y ago
It's long gone the time people should stop doing business with Oracle.
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by Borborygymus 2y ago
Exactly. Much of the discourse around this topic has described ideal testing and deployment practise. Maybe it's different in Silicon Valley or investment banks, but for the sorts of companies I work for (telco mostly) things are very
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by Borborygymus 2y ago
> the situations in which you need to use it are likely cursed. So true, and yet so common.
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by Borborygymus 2y ago
I used to use it on HP-UX in the 90s.
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by Borborygymus 2y ago
You forgot all the other prompts that ssh might produce before the password prompt (e.g. add new host to known hosts yes/no). There are more possible prompts than most people realize.
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by Borborygymus 2y ago
It /was/ nice and quick. Thanks for putting the demo online. It was quick to tell me complete nonsense. Apparently 7122 is the atomic number of Barium.
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by Borborygymus 2y ago
It would be bad.
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by Borborygymus 3y ago
I through it would be a nice idea to have lights polarised vertically and screens polarized horizontally... scattered light gets de-polarized so object illuminated by the lights would still be visible through screen, but direct light from
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by Borborygymus 3y ago
In the late 90s I worked for a vendor of CRM software. A fair bit of billing and payment-handling code was written in COBOL. Wasn't mainframe - ran on a couple of flavours of proprietary Unix. The COBOL compiler vendor was Microfocus.
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by Borborygymus 3y ago
The market economy deserves not one iota of credit for the Free Software I have written (millions of downloads). It was produced and donated to the world in spite of the market economy, not because of it.
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by Borborygymus 3y ago
ctrl-f linux Nope. >:(
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by Borborygymus 3y ago
Pico was based on MicroEmacs 3.6. Nano is an open source clone of Pico - there's definite DNA in that series. I'm assuming not in this new Micro, but it's faintly amusing that the name seems to be a play on something that was
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by Borborygymus 3y ago
Software project name DNA. MicroEmacs -> Pico -> Nano -> Micro
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by Borborygymus 3y ago
I guffawed, and I'm not afraid to admit it.

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