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by bch 6y ago
> I imagine it's mostly build system scripting. NetBSD has had this[0] for ~20 years (requiring only POSIX conformance from the build host). Think of it as a sort of first principle[1] in action. I wouldn’t be surprised if FreeBSD c
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by bch 6y ago
> And this sentence seemed goofy [...] It sounds like it’s riffing on The Worlds Most Interesting Man [0] [0] https://youtu.be/IxgiTeXKOOc
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by bch 6y ago
> low-hanging fruit or something to grossly improve performance. If there’s such a thing anymore I’d be fascinated to hear about it.
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by bch 6y ago
Also mazda[0] who some are saying of whom Honda is actually following the lead[1] [0] https://www.motorbiscuit.com/why-is-mazda-removing-all-touch... [1] https://jalopnik.com/honda-follows-mazda-by-ditching-
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by bch 6y ago
> Definitely a.out pre-elf era Ignorant of the details of a.out vs elf, when the switchover was being discussed I thought this was a decision I’d have to make and agonized over what to choose, hoping I didn’t pick Beta while everybody el
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by bch 6y ago
> This happened three days in row. I finally took all the posts down. Time to start employing “trap streets”?[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
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by bch 6y ago
SQLite “license”[0]: Instead of a license, the SQLite source code offers a blessing: May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. [0] https:&#x
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by bch 6y ago
CBC story[0] (The Nature of Things “The Salmon Forest” c. 2001) about the work of Dr. Tom Reimchen[1] documenting[2] salmon (unwittingly) supplying a rare nitrogen isotope to hemlock trees. [0] https://curio.ca/en/video
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by bch 6y ago
Now I’m curious: what kinds of insurance would such a company have?
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by bch 6y ago
> Heart disease isn't transmissible If it comes via COVID-19 (apparently), in a way it is, no?
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by bch 6y ago
...it gets worse: it was born to manage a medical imaging project[0][1] that was already using a proper, regular embedded scripting language. Then they decided “we need a build system - let’s not use the battle-hardened proven language we’r
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by bch 6y ago
They are the part of the frame that fails, but they’re also at joints, which is where stress collects. I’d be interested to see failure modes for lugged (silver soldered) frames vs TIG welded vs pressed/glued or other bonded joins of
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by bch 6y ago
Similar for scheme (to degrees: I.e. r4rs, r5rs, r6rs, ...) and I still found it confounding and nerve racking to find a place to start. This may be a place where “technically correct is the best correct” doesn’t hold, at least in terms of
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by bch 6y ago
> I know I sound like an old coot but frankly I'm glad my dad showed me how to install/aim headlights and along with explaining the benefits of a working unmodified exhaust system and how it should sound. Reminds me of the hotr
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by bch 6y ago
These are both clever, but different physics. The toaster uses metallic elasticity (and a subsequent distortion) due to heat, and the rice cooker uses the heat-induced disappearance of magnetism to disengage a switch. (I have one of those t
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by bch 6y ago
NetBSD does similar (major.99.iteration), and before its alpha or beta, this is where things get hashed out. It’s a reserved magic number (one hopes there aren’t 99 minor releases that would start a conflict over x.99.y) so that sucks (b
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by bch 6y ago
It’s hard to comment on this charitably, but why did anyone think this was ever a good idea, and why resist fixing it? I believe you’re correct though, it was ultimately fixed .
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by bch 6y ago
Not sure if this qualifies but there’s this[0] embarrassing (to say the least) technical decision. [0] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/08/19/removing-the-powershe...
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by bch 6y ago
Aluminum as we know it now was rare enough it was more valuable than gold.
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by bch 6y ago
Is there a legit case for doing it as an exercise for the experience (shaking out bugs, making discoveries by having 2 discrete development platforms), or as a strategic card, so they “have options”? I don’t know how the costs scale - wheth
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by bch 6y ago
CBC interview/documentary from Ideas with Paul Kennedy “Never in Anger” parts 1 and 2 - 1) https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2263114454 2) https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2263120301
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by bch 6y ago
I wouldn’t mind having an SD slot and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The impenetrable sleekness of modern phones looks great in equally impenetrable television ads, but my real world would benefit from a bit more utility. Add replaceable battery t
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by bch 6y ago
I could be wrong but I don’t think “object” and “GC” are being used in the same manner for these posts.
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_ph_, on this case I think it’s fair to say the aesthetic and ergonomics are the technical capability, to degrees. For example, building a custom looping control does benefit aesthetics and ergonomics. It could be viewed as 2 sides of t
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by bch 6y ago
Thanks for the exercise - I got an order of magnitude improvement on Tcl just by bracing the expressions: Bad: expr $i +$j + 2 Good: expr {$i + $j + 2} ... it saves interpretation and evaluation to occurring once, hoisted in the [expr] engi
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by bch 6y ago
I’ll have to dig in and study a bit - I don’t know how [the object system] works off the top of my head. It sounds like you’re familiar with Tcl internals, so I presume you know that (if we stick w the list as a prototypical “complex” struc
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by bch 6y ago
I don’t use Tcl OO these days (used to use [incr tcl], quite a while ago), but don’t know how EIAS (everything is a string) affects this. It’s more accurately described as “everything has a string-representation”... but that’s the same for
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by bch 6y ago
That means nothing in isolation. Fill us in.
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by bch 6y ago
The guy who also brought us raft[0], log structured file systems[1], and Ousterhouts Dichotomy[2], among other things, in case you were thinking “not a bunch of grad students, but ‘some professor’.” [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#

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