bch

5 ms·

31.
by bch 2mo ago
> I'm glad to see someone feels similarly. There is nothing wrong with ignorance, but there's no excuse mistaking learning for invention. Especially from someone bearing the title "Developer Educator" >> a Devel
32.
by bch 2mo ago
Maybe Greenspun's Tenth Rule applies to anything "common".
33.
by bch 2mo ago
> If you're considering doing anything serious with Unix, absolutely you should use Linux. No question. Don't waste your time with any BSDs. Can you expand on that?
34.
by bch 2mo ago
Of course you're correct re: laptop and aux kb - I was thinking of "seat" (and multiple seats) being: "Wayland seat refers to one 'seat' at which a user sits and operates the computer."[0] So a keyboard be
35.
by bch 2mo ago
> It's actually a lot more work than you'd think to support this... Like: how would one support multiple keyboards? Is there an experimental or logical model for that?
36.
by bch 2mo ago
I don't know what qualifies as "mainstream media" here, but I feel various public broadcasters have served me well over the years: CBC[0] in Canada, BBC[1] in United Kingdom, NPR[2] in America, ABC[3] in Australia, NHK[4] in
37.
by bch 3mo ago
.tk[0] (e.g. a component of a Tcl/Tk[1] (or perhaps Perl/Tk, or Python/Tkinter) belongs to Tokelau[2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tk [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_(sof
38.
Dashrath Manjhi – Mountain Man(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by bch 3mo ago|0 comments
39.
by bch 3mo ago
> you can't turn a river around with a stick Somebody forgot to tell this[0] guy. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi
40.
by bch 3mo ago
You can appreciate the world and still do Hard Work to make it better - definitely not mutually exclusive. Be unreasonable. Be Progressive. Temper it all with Desiderata[0], since we’re being philosophical. [0] https://www.deside
41.
by bch 3mo ago
I love the social/cultural aspects of our engineering discipline. > I always thought of that as “yak-shaving,” or “bikeshedding.” I think of yak-shaving as ending up (by lack of discipline, or perhaps out of necessity) working on so
42.
by bch 3mo ago
> “let's not make perfect the enemy of good." Nuanced, but I’ve heard “don’t let perfection be the enemy of completion ”, which is real in the cases of not shipping because one is constantly polishing/perfecting, or, as I
43.
by bch 3mo ago
I can't replicate atm, but I now think it had to do w scientific notation, not octal - so "1e234..." into a text column. And istr "strict" solving my problem, but...
44.
by bch 3mo ago
I'll see if i can find the case - my description was a bit hand-wavy because it was a while ago, and just drawing on memory -- not that your explanation couldn't be true, but I thought I exercised that possibility. For your part,
45.
by bch 3mo ago
I had a UUID (partly?) mis-converted to a number if the UUID started w (from memory) something like 08123… which was parsed as octal. Confusing, annoying, fixed w “strict” and a complete table rebuild.
46.
by bch 3mo ago
Good catch. We've run into a problem somewhere along this journey of comparing the compression strength of a snails tooth to the tensile strength of a spiders web.
47.
by bch 3mo ago
Good read, and I think a sort of living mindset, or “process, not product”, though seems to be follow-on/reaction to Perl’s TMTOWTDI (Tim Toadie)[0], and Python’s response(“There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to
48.
by bch 3mo ago
Then your manager asks you to wrap it in a GUI so your coworkers can use it, and the cycle is complete.
49.
by bch 3mo ago
> when you are already in the terminal, launching a TUI app is just faster than switching to a GUI window. So it's still about "terminal or not" for me I’m principally a terminal person too, but my first thought was tmux c
50.
by bch 3mo ago
That's why we use the %fill of an Olympic Sized Pool - doesn't matter from what continent the field comes, they fill the pool equally.
51.
by bch 3mo ago
If people would just take the time to actually learn and appreciate the Analytical Engine they could bypass _all_ that noise...
52.
by bch 3mo ago
If they've got billions to rent out, they're not using it...
53.
by bch 3mo ago
What a vector (no pun intended) for malware or other computation…
54.
by bch 3mo ago
Where LaTeX[0] is the collection of Lamports macros over Knuths[1] TeX[2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth [2] https://en.wikipedi
55.
by bch 3mo ago
> stuck to SQLite instead Different level of abstraction. I don’t think it’s highlighted enough either - this latest (1.0) and the previous 0.9.x are mutually incompatible, requiring essentially a dump/restore. It is mentioned (I fo
56.
by bch 4mo ago
Sounds like a trip to the hospital.
57.
by bch 4mo ago
^-- this comment was typed on a computer, similar to the computers the worlds most advanced AI is developed on, so you know he knows what he's talking about.
58.
by bch 4mo ago
Notable users: GNU HURD Project (Shipping any day now).
59.
by bch 4mo ago
Everybody else is a fungible cog. TFA is a good little read - couple things come to mind 1) Knoll’s Law [0][1] 2) The ways I feel when I’m working on a hard problem in an area of my expertise and some person starts in with “Why do
60.
by bch 4mo ago
Nice. I like it. Advanced history mgmt in between commits is compelling.

More ›