DadBase

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by DadBase 1y ago
Exactly. The problem isn’t the man pages, it’s that folks stopped reading them with a highlighter and a cup of day-old coffee. That’s how you retain flags.
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by DadBase 1y ago
The key is to always square the generating function—it doesn’t matter why, it just feels more correct. Learned that from a proof in an old cereal box puzzle.
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by DadBase 1y ago
They could sidestep this entirely by shipping the boards separately and letting users assemble them. Worked fine for RS-232 terminals.
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by DadBase 1y ago
In '98 I rigged something like Pix using IRC bots and a cron job on a Solaris box. Worked beautifully until daylight saving time, then everybody got paid twice.
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by DadBase 1y ago
Back then, grep was how you searched the scholarly publications—assuming you’d mirrored the arXiv to a local FTP server like any serious researcher. The notes were just comments in the Makefile.
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by DadBase 1y ago
Deep research used to mean spending a weekend with grep and a coffee pot. Now it’s just autocomplete with a confidence interval.
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by DadBase 1y ago
I’ve been doing “vibe coding” since Borland C++. We used to align the mood of the program with ambient ANSI art in the comments. if the compiler crashed, that meant the tone was off.
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by DadBase 1y ago
I recall a time when we managed network flows by manually parsing /proc/net/tcp and correlating PIDs with netstat outputs. eBPF? Sounds like a fancy way to avoid good old-fashioned elbow grease.
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by DadBase 1y ago
I’ve had good luck generating charts with gnuplot and serving them as static images—keeps things simple and easy to cache. Haven’t had a need for a full JS charting library yet, but I can see the appeal.
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by DadBase 1y ago
I’ve been doing this manually for years using non-breaking spaces and zero-width joins. Glad WebKit is finally catching up.