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by bch 4y ago
> … why do people continue to create new build tools every couple of years? Seems like a rite[0] of passage to some degree. Perhaps similar to people talking a stab at The Next Actually Correct CMS, and The Next Object System That Doesn’
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by bch 4y ago
It’s a well-engineered general purpose operating system. I used it as a development platform and reference box for portability. I’ll drive my projects w BSD Make[0] and nvi[1] in tmux[2] in dwm/st[3] in X.org as well as I imagine Linux
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by bch 4y ago
Bicycles don’t need that, and it wasn’t made for them, so I don’t know why you’d charge “road cost” to the bicycle ledger when they’re such a distant second (at best) citizen on most roadways anyway.
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by bch 4y ago
The best time was “back when it made sense”. The second best time is now. Fantastically capable language.
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by bch 4y ago
> Whilst I'd generally hate for a 1 meter bee to exist Luckily for you a rare sight - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Sa...
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by bch 4y ago
> has a piston converter The 2000 is natively a piston filler as far as I know. When you say “converter”, are you saying you’ve modified your 2000?
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by bch 4y ago
> its actually far safer to keep an eyedropper pen mostly full so that there is less of bubble of air to heat up and cause this. This tip as well for any fountain pen you’re air-traveling with. Pressurization changes affect the air volum
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by bch 4y ago
> Not sure if it's supposed to be actually "good paper", though (Leichtturm), but I'm quite disappointed. I don’t think I had bleed-through problems w Leichtturm (do recall drying/smudging issues though (Mont Bla
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by bch 4y ago
Are you sure it wasn’t Carmac referring to using vi (versus a modern IDE like Visual Studio) as something like “civil war reeanactment LARPing”?
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by bch 4y ago
I Like my iPhone SE (currently 3rd gen, previously 1st gen), but goodness is it ever slippery . It’s lovely to look at, but tough to use without covering it in a case.
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by bch 4y ago
I think I was wrong, typed too quickly. There’s (potentially) a file buffer block cache available, but that’s not for caching raw disk blocks, but filesystem blocks of content.
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by bch 4y ago
Still backed by block layer cache for (hopefully) quick response regardless of outcome
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by bch 4y ago
I say "lightweight" in terms of text and comprehension. I say "fraught" because it imposes conditions on running this on the network. Perhaps fraught is too editorial. Regardless - in some environments, that "sticki
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by bch 4y ago
I’ll watch with interest, and am heartened with the responses I see. One thing I wish is that the license were also more “lightweight”. GPL3 for a piece of backend network infra seems a bit fraught. This is usually the domain of ISC, MIT, o
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by bch 4y ago
Surely you mean “pay later”, or I missed the implicit /s.
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by bch 4y ago
> …Lion's Mane in the loop… How do you consume them?
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by bch 4y ago
It was a long time ago, but giving gnus a shot (and watching it c-r-a-w-l through my mailbox) makes me wonder if it’s a mutt -stand-in. My typical mutt workflow brought gnus to its gnees.
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by bch 4y ago
> Doesn’t Fossil have any hooks to use another diff tool? $ fossil set diff-command “diff -bu”
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by bch 4y ago
Next level will be detecting if you’re local to the area and using descriptions of landmarks that used to be there but aren’t present anymore. Turn left where the Tastee-Freeze used to be.
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by bch 4y ago
> If you are trying to avoid fish oil, you could try krill oil Curious - what about fish oil is to-be-avoided but lets krill be a suitable substitute?
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by bch 4y ago
> it's probably too long for me to ever get around to writing it (or for anyone to be interested in reading), though… Just publish a volume every few years, and fascicles as necessary, and then eventually…
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by bch 4y ago
I’m just dipping my toe into the “expensive Japanese paper” (TomoeRiver, Midori) and I think the experience (while writing, and ink-fastness thereafter) might be worth it imo.
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by bch 4y ago
Argonne National leaned heavily on Tcl relatively recently for a petascale super-computer project of theirs[0] (I was introduced to it by Justin Wozniak of Argonne at a Tcl conference in Manassas). [0] https://www.mcs.anl.gov&#x2
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by bch 4y ago
> Ousterhout spun Tcl out of Sun in late 1997, which feels like the timeline when Sun was turning to Java. I think there was internal politicking at Sun going on too, where JOs departure wasn’t necessarily “coincidentally” when Sun was t
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by bch 5y ago
A bit late for that to be a meaningful example.
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by bch 5y ago
I'm a 4h salted water soaker now - i think i saw the 4h (versus 8h/overnight) on a bean forum that may have been run as net news originally. I find 4h to be a reasonably small amount of time to work with, and I use a pressure cook
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by bch 5y ago
Do you wrangle the wok on the surface (or a frying pan) for a sauté[0]? What I'm really trying to find out is: how durable is the work surface? Does it deal well with pans being slid over it, and on/off it? [0] https://
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by bch 5y ago
I feel like I had that experience in Brussels. Its as if the sandwich started with a chance to be perfect, and nothing in that simple construction gave up any demerits.
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by bch 5y ago
Related(?) I'm looking for recommendations for a good intro/reference to the intel arch wrt operations and registers, esp wrt Unix conventions (if unix differs from (eg) Windows wrt creating a process or pushing/popping stack
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by bch 5y ago
> The Gov of New York has basically come out and said exactly that. Looked it up, came up with this[0]. [0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ny-gov-kathy-hochul-says-p...

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