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by bch 3y ago
It’s also “conventional wisdom” that (especially?) with the web, there’s The Way It Should Work, and then there’s The Way It Actually Works, which is all the quirks, etc. I’ve not completed an entire server or browser, so not speaking from
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by bch 3y ago
I’ve had “Maryland Bridges” in mine for years (apparently longer than the bridges are typically expected to last (?)), so there are some of us adults around… But sadly for me: Once confirmed to have no ill effects on the human body, it
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by bch 3y ago
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw
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by bch 3y ago
> juniors asked to implement the architecture but don't really understand it? Can you reasonably expect a junior engineer to push back here and generally get traction? If this architectural decision has been made, it’s been made. At
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by bch 3y ago
> Lua scripting on BSD Not Dragon Fly, but - https://man.netbsd.org/intro.9lua https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/mbalmer/fosdem2...
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by bch 3y ago
F5 iRules, Cisco iOS (afaik), embedded in network storage devices, Argonne National Laboratory Swift/T supercomputer control, …
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by bch 3y ago
> Tcl fully parses lines before deciding that they should be executed (in the case of a command) or ignored (in the case of a comment). I don't know your measurements or use case but putting code in a [proc] will engage the bytecode
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by bch 3y ago
> "Everything is a string" kinda puts people off. I can't speak for "people", but i think this might be a bit of misunderstanding combined w an implementation detail. I think most Tcl people these days would say
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by bch 3y ago
My reference to it only a month ago [0]. :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35621692
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by bch 3y ago
> cartoon-illustrated DIY Honda Civic repair book from the 80's I no longer remember the name of. Sounds like the Honda version of “How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive […] For the Compleat Idiot”.[0] [0] https://www.ssairco
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by bch 3y ago
> fuck moths and bring on […] butterfly populations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieris_rapae
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by bch 4y ago
Reminds me of this book[0] about (air-cooled) VW maintenance, which goes right into how to tear down and rebuild the engine. Anyway, it can be disorienting, at the back of the car, looking at the engine and knowing what’s front/back, b
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by bch 4y ago
Chunked salmon. Nice.
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by bch 4y ago
NB: jwz does not appreciate direct-linking from HN - cut/paste this link or be prepared for a nsfw middle finger.
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by bch 4y ago
Neigh impossible to find, I’m sure.
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by bch 4y ago
Been there: https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/copier-conundrum-xerox-mac...
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by bch 4y ago
[…] Now draw the rest of the owl.
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by bch 4y ago
> Since then, illumos has rewritten all those components But apparently kept the same license? >> Most of the existing code is licensed under the CDDL and we expect new code will generally be under this license as well.[0] [0] htt
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by bch 4y ago
I never knew he was involved at all - I always thought of the UCB work as wholly independent hacking/reverse engineering.
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by bch 4y ago
> Unix author Ken Thompson returned to his alma mater, University of California Berkeley (UCB), in 1975 and taught the kernel line-by-line. Wow. TIL
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by bch 4y ago
Go on…
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by bch 4y ago
> The text before the interview mentions AFS which I did not think Ousterhout had anything to do with. I thought it was from Carnegie Mellon and then IBM Transarc. Ya - I wonder if the article writer actually meant LFS (log-structured fi
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by bch 4y ago
Richard often calls sqlite itself “a Tcl extension that escaped into the wild.” It’s no accident that a lot of sqlite tests are written in Tcl, or that a “weird language like Tcl” has first class sqlite support. In fact, for a while Richard
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by bch 4y ago
How old is your life?
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by bch 4y ago
> “Freedom means taking care of yourself.” Others say "freedom" is just another word for "nothing left to lose." By the first definition though, I think one should keep in mind "With great [freedom] comes great r
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by bch 4y ago
> pure Greek mastiha sap Mmm. The root for the word “masticate” (the resin is used like chewing gum), and the “piney” flavour in Greek halva (among other things). Notably, a collection of trees on one Greek islands (Chios) were under thr
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by bch 4y ago
It looks like @rkeene2 styled it, but that’s a site served up by fossil[0]. [0] https://www2.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
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by bch 4y ago
Driving through snow?
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by bch 4y ago
I had something like this happen w some documentation I was working on in docbook (~13 years ago - forgive me if this isn’t 100% accurate), iirc: “[*]” meant “empty checkbox”.
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by bch 4y ago
less(1) provides similar follow/stop-following functionality.

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