abathur

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by abathur 4y ago
Why is that even weirder? The term generally indicates skin with a slight ~green cast.
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by abathur 4y ago
Or the oil?
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by abathur 4y ago
If you were a fan of your favorite band before anyone else, you may also find https://github.com/abathur/shell-hag somewhat interesting. I found it sad that there's so much overlapping effort (here, but in profile
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by abathur 4y ago
This is the same base paper/research as in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31386091 , which has a lively discussion... (and, at least as I write this, is also on the first page) :)
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by abathur 4y ago
I think bureaucracies do tend to suck, but I also think there are often people who stand to gain from making a bureaucracy suck. For that reason, I suspect it's good idea to leave interpretive space for the possibility that a given b
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by abathur 4y ago
I agree there'd be quite a bit of compatibility breakage and churn associated with trying to change these at this point. That said, I think one of the better reasons (and ways) to weigh the value of changing some long-term practice is
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by abathur 4y ago
Folding this back onto the question at hand: $ find /{usr,bin,sbin} /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/env /bin /bin/sh find: '/sbin': No such file or directory
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by abathur 4y ago
A near non-sequitur per your aside (I agree with the rest...): https://github.com/bashup/events is one of my favorite little things. I even blogged about it in January!
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by abathur 4y ago
I also used this to brute-force completion of lower levels :)
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by abathur 4y ago
They wouldn't have a reason rip themselves off, but the decision-makers may not be well-incentivized to control cost (or might be incentivized to make "safe" choices over "smart" ones). I have wondered if we could ~
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by abathur 4y ago
As I understand it, she wasn't diagnosed with preeclampsia (despite being a pregnant woman in a maternity hospital for shortness of breath--for ~36h) until after she was placed on ECMO. Her levels (I think maybe liver enzyme is what ma
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by abathur 4y ago
She had an initial 2-shot course, but shied away from the booster after she found out she was pregnant (in late Oct, iirc.)
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by abathur 4y ago
As a counterpoint (anecdata...) to some comments here... After contracting covid around Christmas and ~recovering over about 2 weeks, one of my younger sisters, 31 + pregnant, started feeling short of breath in late February. She went into
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Nix-shell, but make it lovely(t-ravis.com)
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by abathur 5y ago
Land-value tax :)
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by abathur 5y ago
Yes, but it wouldn't have a selective advantage. You'd have to do the same process--dumping tons of them in an area--to have the same effect.
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by abathur 5y ago
AIUI mosquito-borne illness is estimated to have killed more than 4% of all of the humans that have ever lived https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/10/03/has_malaria...
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by abathur 5y ago
I guess this is a valid way to frame the problem (and I personally agreed with moving it), but I'd also quibble a bit... - IIRC, ~stakeholders weren't keen on relocating it just on macOS because it would require a separate set of
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by abathur 5y ago
Yes--it was bleak. Getting tired of watching people run into sharp corners in the process of that was part of why I got involved with trying to fix it up, myself. There were some dumb (but common in informally-organized OSS...) reasons it m
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by abathur 5y ago
> and the initial installation experience on Mac has been all over the place quality-wise in recent years. In minor defense of this, Apple making the root read-only threw a pretty big wrench in things. There are a lot of little reasons (
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by abathur 5y ago
Yes, `--pure` helps (and `env -i` can also help) but that's not the hard part of finding them all. It only really helps when there's no conditional logic or no options that can lead to the execution of different programs.
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by abathur 5y ago
I came here to say this, too :) But, of course, it isn't a silver bullet... 1. You still have to have a sane PATH. A fair amount of the Nix install-related issues that get opened are PATH problems, and you can also run into problems wi
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by abathur 5y ago
You can do some wild ~metaprogramming stuff with aliases.
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by abathur 5y ago
Interesting concept, re: embedding it in a PDF. Yes, the mechanics/mudlib are a bit sparse. It's stacked on top of a ~terminal JS library, but all of the ~MUD behavior is hand-rolled. It's a bit LP/LD-family-esque, but I
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by abathur 5y ago
"read" is already used in the blog-post rooms and in a few other places for narrower interactions. It does support "glance" as a synonym for "look".
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by abathur 5y ago
Thanks for the reminder. I noticed this on Chrome on Android myself recently, but I didn't have the energy to pull on the thread at the time.
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by abathur 5y ago
Hmm. I don't think so. Not consciously, at least. The site feels a bit familiar, and I would probably click on a link to it if I stumbled on it elsewhere, so I may have at least seen it.
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by abathur 5y ago
This thing is my fault, if anyone has questions/nits/etc. The usual one is whether the code is somewhere. The short term answer is no, but I did pick out a name and set up a repo for anyone interested to watch, if I ever get to th
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by abathur 5y ago
I think it would be fitting if microplastics manage to yank our chain before obviously-dangerous things like nukes or antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
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by abathur 5y ago
I'd recommend easing yourself into an existing technical community organized around something you use or find interesting. (This will probably be software/hardware, but it could honestly be any field of knowledge you find interest

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