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by bch 5y ago
> Well, er, I guess it depends on if you went to Eton or not… This is going in a direction I wasn’t anticipating - I thought “bum a fag” would realistically mean “ask for a cigarette”.
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by bch 5y ago
> hold my fag > American talk about being "bummed" (in the UK bummed=anally penetrated) But isn’t “bum a fag” still acceptable Brit phrasing? Also reminded the Cannondale bicycle company (American) used to have a child trail
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by bch 5y ago
> The reality is that streetcar companies were already unprofitable What seems to me to be a good takedown of “public transit must be profitable or be dismantled”, or “the US post office must be profitable or be dismantled” is: How profi
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by bch 5y ago
OT: but watching this made me wonder: is Skia[0] supposed to form a pun[1] (Cairo/Skia), when mentioned with Cairo[2]? Why does this sound like some sort of code[3][4] that leads to some sort of Ouroboros[5] ultra pun[6]? Quick! To Rom
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by bch 5y ago
> GNU tools are much more widely used on boxes humans interact with than BSD/busybox. You don't see everyone trying to figure out how to install all of the suckless tools immediately after installing linux, etc. Or perhaps thos
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by bch 5y ago
Default Apple iPhone ringtone sent shivers down my spine for ages after a few years of having it as my on-call work phone.
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by bch 5y ago
British Columbia has just experienced substantial flooding that wasn’t related to being coastal[0][1][2]. I think it exemplifies how we need to mind our relationship with the world - everywhere. [0] https://www.cbc.ca/news&#
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by bch 5y ago
The userland was largely BSD, but the Mac kernel was a Mach kernel w a BSD shim for syscalls, iiuc.
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by bch 5y ago
Is bash integrated into xcode or something, or just sit as a standalone binary?
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by bch 5y ago
In the absence any any mention of licensing, I presume this is Apache-2… I don’t know if I’ve ever seen such a core piece of infra licensed that way (am used to BSD or MIT) - others might know better than I: is this a sane way forward?
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by bch 5y ago
“Parse don’t validate” reminds me of John Ousterhouts “Define errors out of existence.”[0] [0] https://youtu.be/bmSAYlu0NcY?t=1315
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by bch 5y ago
One last time, like Daniel Day-Lewis.
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by bch 5y ago
3h of CBC Radio (1992) documentary on Buffalo in Canada, including relationships with indigenous people through to genetics (hint: <matrix>“there is no plains bison”</matrix>). I found it fascinating. Part 1: https:/&
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by bch 5y ago
If you want to enjoy his work with pop-sensibility in the delivery I recommend checking out “I’m Your Fan”[0], where you can enjoy heavy weights like R.E.M. and The Pixies and a bunch of other really excellent bands interpreting Cohens real
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by bch 5y ago
How’s long have you been using it? How do you like it as a daily driver? If the handle/latch stays tight, it certainly does improve on the twist/twist/twist/twist… of (eg) Bialetti pots.
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by bch 5y ago
I believe the 9090 doesn’t usually have a red flourish, but this[0] anniversary edition does, and if you look at other Sapper work[1] you’ll see how the red highlight, like the track point[2] seems to fit into a theme of his he works into v
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by bch 5y ago
More interested in what meaningful fixes can be done in some fraction of the 1.2s RTT of this rapid-fire style PHP development.
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by bch 5y ago
Oh goodness - I’m just getting Bostics Sleepycat -> WiredTiger play now. Well done Keith.
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by bch 5y ago
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -George Bernard Shaw Edit: proper attribution
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by bch 5y ago
> The CMake language has the same absence of syntax Ironically, if I recall correctly, cmake came about from a Kitware medical imaging project that was heavily leaning on Tcl, yet when their build system needed a DSL they decided to hack
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by bch 5y ago
> people who think that cycling is a niche hobby of rich lycra-clad yuppies I don’t know who “those people” are, or what regional politics are at play, but that doesn’t pass my “smell test”. How about deploying “think about the children”
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by bch 5y ago
Don’t worry, vim has your back. In Vim, on a line with only her name, type: :s/vi//ign We can get to the bottom of this mystery.
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by bch 5y ago
I just love that for a moment here we’ve put aside our differences about emacs vs vi and focused our efforts on bike shedding which car analogy best fits. Peak computing culture.
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by bch 5y ago
> It seems like these organisms are > 90% meat. Why do they have so much meat? What do they need all that meat for? Whales cultivated them for consumption.
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by bch 5y ago
> and the VR/meta chapter won't help Tangential to this thread, I listened to Carmacks keynote[0] for the Facebook Connect event, and it’s very refreshing to hear him push back, in ways that just make sense , instead of towin
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by bch 5y ago
> Not luck of the draw, it was because of the OOP craze in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Sure, but Tcl also had/has a well-regarded OO system, and Ruby was on the scene, so Python doesn’t actually stand out singularly.
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by bch 5y ago
I wasn’t actually maintaining software across this divide, but I do still occasionally see Tcl 7.x installations in the wild and find it quite recognizable. It seemed to me the biggest changes from 7->8 were byte code interpreter and “
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by bch 5y ago
> Tcl (like Perl) shot itself in the foot right as the DotCom/DotBomb went off. I don’t know what you mean “shot itself in the foot“ here. Some examples? > Python was effectively completely stable through all this and gained a cr
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by bch 5y ago
> atheism is the worst thing ever Perhaps “anathema” got butchered? I’m trying to make sense of that too…
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by bch 5y ago
Mark and sweep

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