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by bch 6y ago
Yea, I didn’t mean fork-bomb specifically, just “fuck ups” generally, or “critical sections” of operations as a human :)
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by bch 6y ago
Experiences like this and a bit of imagination are why I try to be not-root as quickly as possible, and sometimes consciously physically remove my hands from the keyboard instead of having them “idling” at their home position.
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by bch 6y ago
Gordian Knot[0] recognition in action. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot
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by bch 6y ago
I’m entertained that the euphemism “arranging deck chairs on the Titanic” is not actually useless, in this context.
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by bch 6y ago
Do you mean number of private workspaces that are called an “office” in a building affects how taxes are calculated? So reconfiguring the floors in a corporate building might affect how they file taxes? I’ve never heard of that before...
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by bch 6y ago
You might enjoy Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid [0], which discusses this. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
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by bch 6y ago
Huh - I didn’t notice that, but that’s something for me to now look for. “Pedantic” is not the word I’d use to describe your observation here re: Steve Reich, master of phasing and polyrhythms and rounds.
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by bch 6y ago
Steve Reichs work is brilliant. I also enjoy the Reich Remixed album (c 1999) which was (as I think of it) a modern take on modern music - interestingly, I’d say the “modern take” part has aged the worst, but it’s still all good fun. https
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by bch 6y ago
Which reminds me of this (attributed to Bill Gates): Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
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by bch 6y ago
I don’t know game engine tech, but I watched this[0] (which was awesome), and was immediately reminded of BZFlag[1][2], though the world looks more visually sophisticated. [0] https://youtu.be/fX7o-1OH-WM [1] https:/&
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by bch 6y ago
> Warren Buffet doesn't directly exploit anyone. There might be something to discuss there: https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/w...
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by bch 6y ago
I was thinking about this today - that is: a terminal (“minimal”) setup may well have prepared those of us who practice it - for remote work (great news if a pandemic strikes!) I wondered though, if there’s no way to objectively “score” the
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by bch 6y ago
I sure enjoy seeing less popular but well engineered tools reapplied to “modern” problems. Re: 9c and lib9rt being well-suited for constrained bare-metal development, I wonder is this a place where pcc[0] would also thrive? [0] https:&#x
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by bch 6y ago
It’s every K and R bike they’ve make since the 1930s (for the R models), including touring bikes but also the GS (which perhaps is a tourer these days, granted), R Nine T (street/sport), R18 (bobber/cruiser), and R1250R roadster.
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by bch 6y ago
In the meantime, wouldn’t be surprising if he’s horrible to work with, which was OP point.
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by bch 6y ago
Well... tell somebody you run a Unix operating system instead of Windows or Mac and keep notes on how many people say “Oh, you mean Linux?” Keep a smaller piece of paper for all the combined responses of “Oh, you mean [Open|Free|Net|Dragon
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by bch 6y ago
Notably, only w the latest iOS update a few weeks ago
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by bch 6y ago
See too Frank Sidebottom’s work from 1983. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25183229
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1983 Punk Rock Record w/ Digital Music Video for B-Side(gizmodo.com)
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by bch 6y ago
Sadly sway seems very very Linux-centric. It depends on a device-enumerator that ships w systemd, which is quite an invasive prerequisite. I’m playing/hacking w swc[0] on NetBSD, and I’ve worked out my daily-driver, which to be clear
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by bch 6y ago
That’s amazing - now I have questions. They say “decades in the making” - when did it first become viable, and then how long to master the process and become confident enough to mass produce consumer goods from it? I’d love to see a timelin
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by bch 6y ago
Hasn’t been a problem for me for years. It seems to me that often this argument is based (directly or indirectly) from conditions 20 or more years ago. I think Emacs itself hasn’t changed much (it’s gotten better, but not fundamentally d
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by bch 6y ago
In my life I’ve occasionally used emacs dired-mode[0] to do medium-sized file operations; more than just 1 or 2 files, but not worth building a script w heuristics. [0] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredMode
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by bch 6y ago
In my experience, P4 is simply hard. Maybe my introductions were rubbish, but I’ve found it difficult in its own right.
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by bch 6y ago
> It makes it go soggy really fast [...] Crunchy granola
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by bch 6y ago
I think all BSDs (net, free, open, dragon fly) use honest-to-goodness nvi[0]. Of course vim is available as an installable 3rd party piece of software. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvi
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by bch 6y ago
Watch food scientist Harold McGee[0][1] and see if you’re as impressed as I was, and that there’s potentially something in the GP claim. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_McGee [1] https://youtu.be&#x
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by bch 6y ago
Are you talking about gnm, gnmx[0] ? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4_system_software
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by bch 6y ago
> I don't know if the Tuesday Morning Group at UT is still active,[...] but it was rather well known and its members produced a great deal of what is now "theoretical computer science".) *Tuesday Afternoon Club [0]. [0] h
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by bch 6y ago
Tcl is at the core of F5 (bigip)[0] and A10[1] network edge devices, tea leaf traffic monitoring [2], gnu gcc test suite[3], big finance tools[4], and very large computer management [5], for starters. One could go on with examples of indust

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