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by bch 7y ago
https://www.amazon.ca/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/dp...
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by bch 7y ago
It’s interesting! https://youtu.be/MhuIOwdWuDk
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> I've yet to find a single use-case for it in my projects. This is the “concurrency vs parallelism” that (e.g.) Rob Pike goes on about[0], rightfully. I think to the uninitiated it can be tough to grasp (not commenting on whether Y
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by bch 7y ago
Wasn’t that implying their infra running the implicit “.” at the end of “.com” (I know, it’s literally not what the copy says)? I.e. the internet .com resolving depended on Sun.[0][1] [0] https://serverfault.com/questions&
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by bch 7y ago
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo ...[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
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by bch 7y ago
> Python had a lot of help from marketing.. it was just that it was marketing of a different kind, from its users [...] Perl, Tcl, Python (all scripting, I know) are (iiuc) examples that came to be without a juggernaut behind them, but t
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by bch 7y ago
I don’t think those Citroen’s would really be well classified as fast backs. Eg: classic mustang[0], vs mustang fastback[1], where the roof sweeps to the rear window. The first thing I thought of w this car though is kammback[2] design. [0]
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by bch 7y ago
> Isn't a mouse generally better at that? I won’t comment on which is better, but tmux lets you navigate the screen (and history buffer) by searching and vi(1)-like movements which serve me well. To say nothing of being in a situati
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Perhaps. Assumes all compilers support it, but otherwise, a testable case.
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And also as a gift to optimizing compilers, from discussions I’ve had w him. The idea is that a single compilation unit (the “amalgamation”) is easy for the compiler to reason about.
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> A command line interface isn't a great medium for singing, but graphical interfaces enabled sophisticated music production software, desktop publishing using beautiful fonts and images (examples he used). It enables expressiveness
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by bch 7y ago
IIUC, the 2.5Gbase-t will work w cat5e cables, which is the highest signalling (or lowest cable spec) to fulfill building out a network. If you’re stuck w or otherwise committed to Cat5e, 10GbE isn’t an option. I guess it’d be a case-by-cas
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by bch 7y ago
Every pizza comes w automatic pineapple...
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50 years ago, Unix came from the future and showed us that less is more, and a good collection of composable tools can take you an awful long way. Along the way it’s evolved, demonstrating its flexibility and also suffered campaigns[0][1] b
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by bch 7y ago
With a bad cert, no less...
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Upvoted, but noting here to future readers: don’t let above link pass you by without checking it out.
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by bch 7y ago
I think that’s opposing incorrect things, in this case. I think the spirit of The Law should be clear and kept alive. Whether to “[If applied, this commit will] <commit msg here>” or “[This commit]<verb> <work description>
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by bch 7y ago
Like vi? X11? Apache httpd? GPL is great, but not the only license that worthwhile software is written in...
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by bch 7y ago
> renewables will have surpassed it in terms of cost Are you thinking in terms of dollars or including the price of future use/materials? In other words, can’t a nuclear plant effectively be swapped in for a (e.g.) coal-fired genera
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by bch 7y ago
Re: acoustic isolation - having recently dealt w acoustics/concrete (laying a floor in a concrete apartment), I found out there’s not necessarily “concrete in general” so acoustic (and other) properties can vary from concrete to concre
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by bch 7y ago
> [...] why invest in making a better [...] This is the question of our Industrial Age. I think a nice example is VW (in a former life) w their beetle program. Well documented in Small Wonder[0] under Heinz Nordhoff[1]. Easy 50 years of
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by bch 7y ago
Isn’t that what these[0] are for? [0] https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/s/panini-makers
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by bch 7y ago
Haha! That’s the one, but I worked in the old building that was burned down when the neighbouring business sparked a fire :(
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by bch 7y ago
I used to (nearly 20 years ago) roast coffee in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory Canada, and folks from Alaska would often stop in the shop. People that bought Cuban coffee often requested it be rebagged and just labelled “coffee” for about the
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by bch 7y ago
There’s a Alan Kay talk[0] that might illuminate for you that leap of logic about simplicity. [0] https://youtu.be/NdSD07U5uBs
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by bch 7y ago
See this[0] Tcl jumping-off point (stub??) for another implementation (est. 1999) of same principle. [0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Stubs
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Let’s hope Mazda blazes a popular trail[0]. [0] https://thenewswheel.com/mazda-eliminates-touch-screens/
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by bch 7y ago
These are great ideas - I feel like the key is being conscientious and selfish (in an acceptable way) about yourself (your health and well-being), otherwise the cumulative effects of “efficiency” add up. I need to claw back this time and ex
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by bch 7y ago
Theoretically not necessarily the referenced GIL, though. There are conceptually alternative models; see Microsoft doc[0] on apartment threading model, or Tcl[1]. [0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32&
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by bch 7y ago
Or Bill Gates - “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

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