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by bch 6y ago
> I originally left that out as it can vary based on the density of the coffee being used, and in addition grinders vary not only brand to brand, but quite a bit between various grinders even of the same model. Indeed, even among grinder
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by bch 6y ago
> ...manual process, true Before I get to my real comment, I guess a fair criticism of it would be “Well, where in the [development process] hierarchy do you actually want to live?”, which I guess is a longer discussion, but as a devel
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by bch 6y ago
> The biggest problem with CLI is discoverability [...] there are like a bazillion commands and it takes forever to read through the docs... I think that’s a design issue - what GUI element (menus, buttons, ...) is going to solve this in
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by bch 6y ago
> For a language to be so hated it has to be used a lot, and that's the primary virtue of PHP: it runs damn-near everywhere. “Runs damn-near everywhere” is true of nearly all contemporary scripting languages, though, no? It’s defini
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Curl User Survey 2020(daniel.haxx.se)
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by bch 6y ago
I think I’d swap “NetBSD” and “OpenBSD” in you public consciousness hierarchy. I’m a (very happy) NetBSD user of nearly 20 years. It’s excellent; I stick with it for reasons. Even I, though, (with humour) think generally that OpenBSD has ge
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by bch 6y ago
Absolute sandboxing, w the option to engage “safe” interp that also (tuneably) segregates it from OS facilities like the network and filesystem. /s Will be looking forward to Pythonistas to be extolling the virtues of multiple interps
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by bch 6y ago
Fossil is awesome, but (currently) would not scale to Facebook-size repos. It seems to be fine with long histories (lots of commits), but bogs down on lots of files (based on discussions surrounding a large repo considering moving to fossil
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by bch 6y ago
I don’t recall from where I heard it, but I’ve heard libraries described as proper tools where you get to take their facilities and (to an extent) use them as you wish, versus frameworks which are an old text adventure game; you have to wor
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by bch 7y ago
The operating system handles this for you on process deletion. Lots of “one shot” programs count on this (and (e.g.) file descriptors being automatically closed).
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by bch 7y ago
> I've been at an academic lecture where a process control engineer used the example of air conditioning to explain that when your system is controlled, you have to be extremely careful about correlation and causation. If you'r
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by bch 7y ago
Allow Cliff Stoll to dine, educate and entertain you - https://youtu.be/gi-TBlh44gY
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by bch 7y ago
This is storytelling on the part of the automakers, so let me propose 2: 1) Porsche’s got 120 years of work since their first electric car [0] 2) I remember pulling the leg of some Tesla fans a long while ago (maybe when the first roadster
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by bch 7y ago
It makes sense if you think of it in terms of a manual typewriter - the carriage-return lever winds the platen (the line feed), and if you keep pushing the lever, you return the carriage to the beginning. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by bch 7y ago
How would you like to license this code?
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by bch 7y ago
> The first thing it did was allocate enough memory for the shutdown operations. That is clever and beautiful. Have to look for chances to do similar to see if I can establish a new habit myself.
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by bch 7y ago
Looks like you’re correct![0] In nvi, I just key my commands on a scratch line (testing occasionally), then: “xyy to load the whole line (yy) into buffer ‘x’ (“x). Execution (@x) thereafter looks ~same. [0] https://vim.fa
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by bch 7y ago
I was confused by the ‘q’ command in vi, so I did quick testing (in nvi(1)) and scanned vim cheat sheets. I still don’t know what ‘q’ does in the named buffer context - help?
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by bch 7y ago
Of course you are correct; “Linux” is a big landscape, and descriptions of instances run the gamut (eg: OpenWRT vs Ubuntu). When I was writing above I had (eg) Red Hat or Ubuntu in mind.
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by bch 7y ago
I’d say BSD (esp Net and Open, as mentioned above), just don’t run as many processes, by design. BSDs are *nix, like Linux, but with their own traditions. If you, familiar with Linux, sat down at a NetBSD box, you’d be able to easily get
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by bch 7y ago
ZFS boot is being worked on at this moment[0] - hopefully it bears fruit. I don’t know, if this were successful, if it would be backported to 9. [0] https://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2020/02/14/
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by bch 7y ago
It was also embedded in browsers[0]. It “could have been javascript”. Sort of a bitter-sweet scenario - I think some were excited that Tcl could have been out there more, in people’s face, but others think Tcl dodged a bullet, as mass adopt
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by bch 7y ago
You’re right re: it’s early internals, and we probably both know people who still (mistakenly) complain about that. Conceptually the “everything is a string”(EIAS) model still holds though, even though it’s supported by dual-ported “objec
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by bch 7y ago
> good design choices can outweigh the decision of which language It sounds like you’re saying the project succeeded by good design despite Tcl (fair - I don’t know your project), but I’d argue Tcl itself is a fine example of good desi
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by bch 7y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority here are doing this, but version control everything Distributed version control is one of the greatest things to have gained popularity in the last ~20 years; if you’re not incorporating git, hg, fo
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by bch 7y ago
I’m (sort of) in your boat, but made a different decision - I’m a NetBSD user by (explicit) choice, so I choose my hardware to suit - which includes passing on latest hardware because of GPU support :/
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by bch 7y ago
Ah cool! So you have practical experience - how’s that all going then? The biggest Dasung I saw on my quick search was ~13”, and very expensive; do you feel like yours was a worthwhile experience?
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by bch 7y ago
> Why is that? Not OP, but I daydream of a big character cell display for console work, especially my development work which is basically vi and a few other tools multiplexed in tmux. Not sure how it’d play out in reality, but in my mind
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by bch 7y ago
I personally quit using CMake years ago; great promise but underdelivered in my opinion. I’ve moved back to hand-rolled (BSD) make files for my own projects. To your point though - I don’t think the fracturing of (often poorly developed) bu
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by bch 7y ago
Until their phone-home rootkit CDs[0]. Or is that also “listening to your customers?” /s [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

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