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by bch 5y ago
If "real estate" were the real reason, that'd just be an example of throwing good money after bad.
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by bch 5y ago
OT: s/Ontaro/Ongaro/g > Do you have a suggestion on how the article title could be better? I read "What does x have to do with y?" as implicitly dismissive, based on my experience. Its often rhetorical. "How
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by bch 5y ago
> do you have a "best of" list to share? This Parnas paper we are discussing is one, and lately Ive been poring over "Document Processing in a Relational Database System (83)" by Stonebraker, et al, and I also really
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by bch 5y ago
> What does a 1972 paper If this is supposed to evoke feelings of "wow that's so old, how could anybody know interesting stuff back then?", and that's your attitude, you're simply missing out. So much interesting
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by bch 5y ago
> cURL (still single person AFAIK) That person is Daniel Stenberg. He's been the main driver[0] (esp since its been called "curl"), and is still the majority committer, but the project has ~1000[1][2] commit authors (discl
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by bch 5y ago
> 3.5" "floppies", which weren't floppy at all The storage medium itself, inside the (stiff) plastic case, was indeed floppy
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by bch 5y ago
> wish I were allowed to say exactly how much money big companies save[...] Are you able to give hints that would guide us in thought exercises?
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by bch 5y ago
> Incorrect, the battle is partly won in several U.S. cities (including NYC & SF) which passed laws to mandate acceptance of cash. I presume this[0] is that story... If i understand correctly, federal law also requires cash to be acc
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by bch 5y ago
Cheers. Edit in good health.
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by bch 5y ago
:set [no]leftright
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by bch 5y ago
Split-flap displays! So satisfying[0]. Heres another video about just the split-flap clock[1], also very entertaining. [0] https://youtu.be/cj32w5z81Ak [1] https://youtu.be/ZArBfxaPzD8
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by bch 5y ago
> The big thing here is the concept of a device doing ONE thing and doing it well. Is there a name for that? In Alton Browns world of kitchen gadgets, thats a "unitasker"[0], though they may be missing the "do it well&quot
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by bch 5y ago
> And that’s the end of the story, until we move to a fifth version control system at some point in the future. Is this a hint, or just leaving the door open?
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by bch 5y ago
“Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.” -Larry Wall (inventor of Perl), on Usenet.
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by bch 5y ago
Same for various GNU[0] test requirements (DejaGnu[1]). Tcl at its core[2]. [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/1.16.1/html_nod... [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/dejag
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by bch 5y ago
I apologize if “if you don’t pay NetBSD developers compatibility is cheap(er)” isn’t what you meant; perhaps I misinterpreted. NetBSD development is not cheap - it’s accomplishments are hard fought design and implementation wins largely per
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by bch 5y ago
I guess that’s another clue but I’m my address bar that’s buried away, and if I printed this out, could be permanently lost. Thanks for for hint though - now it’s a less frustrating read :)
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by bch 5y ago
OT, but I sure wish papers like this included a publish date. This paper references a 2015 paper by Taylor Campbell, and mentions at least NetBSD 8, from which a date can be derived, but it’s annoying to not know the time of development thi
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by bch 5y ago
> But they don't stand out from each other. They were (still?) also colour-coded[0]. [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/AC...
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by bch 5y ago
I think what you’re describing above is the qualified ”Strictly Conforming POSIX“. Edit: delete commentary
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by bch 5y ago
> I'm glad I can afford it but every time I see one of those "electric's not god-awful anymore, induction's amazing!" posts on Twitter or Reddit or whatever it's like... yeah, great solution for us folks wit
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by bch 5y ago
This is pretty interesting - some tension between what C guarantees and what Strictly Conforming POSIX requires. I’m not saying there’s no confusion in the real world (it’s obvious there is). Is Postel’s Law Be conservative in what y
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by bch 5y ago
> 0 is a nonnegative number. Correct. So it needs to be accounted for.
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by bch 5y ago
I think the spec has not meaningfully changed in this regard since C89, and there’s a case of collective false memories[0] happening here. From a copy[1] of C89 I see the relevant description as: * The value of argc shall be nonnegative
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by bch 5y ago
So it does. I was recalling Porsche lore from memory and thought I had a correct reference. Iirc Porsche built an electric 4-motor (hub) car for the Paris Expo about this time… Oh, here we go: > In 1900, at the Paris Exposition Universel
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by bch 5y ago
Or Porsche[0]. In 1898. [0] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/02/check-out-the-first-eve...
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by bch 5y ago
> Is there even any evidence that there are any other units affected by this issue? If their QC is that broken, aren’t the cars that passed through it suspect? Edit: within a proper timeframe window.
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by bch 5y ago
> Get out of the house. This is a tactic I use. Weather permitting, spending an hour out on the bicycle often pays large dividends.
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by bch 5y ago
> Choosing some other port than 22 is not a measure to make things more secure; as you say, it would be security by obscurity. There’s nothing wrong with security through obscurity as long as it’s not your only security. Defence in depth
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by bch 5y ago
Goofy context here: ‘sgbeal and I were doing some fossil dev work ourselves (I’m personally not at his level of fossil-fu, but am a long-running user and contributor). Our work was in a fossil repo (he in Europe, me in North America) and we

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