bch

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1. 661.▲
   by bch 7y ago

   I think your comment points out “context matters”. Cockpits aren’t consumer goods.
2. 662.▲
   by bch 7y ago

   Either is fine and used. Joke is “tickle” among the initiated/familiar, tee cee ell if you’re talking to management. However, never name a file test.tcl, regardless of how you pronounce it.
3. 663.▲
   by bch 7y ago

   NDaaS? (Not Dying...)
4. 664.▲
   by bch 7y ago

   “The street finds its own uses for things” -Burning Chrome
5. 665.▲
   by bch 7y ago

   Buffalo milking is the new yak shaving
6. 666.▲
   by bch 7y ago

   curl != shell
7. 667.▲
   by bch 7y ago

   I’m not at a testing computer, but I think that’s a shell glob, no?
8. 668.▲
   by bch 7y ago

   I appreciate all the positive readings. Maybe it’s that I’m personally more focused on downsizing than accumulating :)
9. 669.▲
   by bch 7y ago

   I (think) I know what you’re saying, what I’m saying is that if I said I was interested in your billion dollar automobile startup, and bought you a car as a gesture, you might be excited, until I handed you the keys to a used 1998 Hyundai E
10. 670.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    Not really your point, but if somebody gifted a $500 tandem/boat anchor for a $30MM co, that might indeed be a red flag. A $500 tandem is probably a boat anchor no matter what the circumstances are...
11. 671.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    OP> The real lesson is that once a technology [loses], the people who invested in the [loser] will run around forever calling the [loser] better. rumanator> [...] those billions are comprised of a hefty number of people who tried both
12. 672.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    > The real lesson is that once a technology looses, the people who invested in the looser will run around forever calling the looser better. I can’t speak for all “the people”, but I disagree strongly. There are fine reasons for picking
13. 673.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    > I think Git turned out to have the better UI [...] I think I have never heard that from anybody versed in git and any other distributed source control manager. Architecturally, we can look at (eg) speed performance and reasonable peopl
14. 674.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    Ha! Yes! I used to call xeyes a network testing tool.
15. 675.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    This is so personal it's beyond reproach, for decency’s sake. On the other hand, it could be overwrought romanticism that speaks to nothing but existential crisis. Who doesn’t want to be a farmer, rising at 3am to be alone with your th
16. 676.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    This is sort of just kicking the problem down the road. Your idea actually might work for (presumably) low-volume use ssh, but what about the next important service? When does the work-around to a papered-over work-around to a virtual probl
17. 677.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    This is why I’m curious about when Carmack published this. TFA is dated 2018, but says it’s republishing Carmack’s before it’s lost. The date could provide some interesting context.
18. 678.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    He’s arguing for changing the behaviour via an environment variable, and not recompiling/linking at all: > The difference between changing a console variable to get a different behavior versus running an old exe, let alone reverti
19. 679.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    Is the date the repost was published 2018, or the date Carmack originally published? My first thought to > Rolling back code and rebuilding to run a test is a pain was “bisecting with distributed version control” isn’t that hard. The
20. 680.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    Tcl/Tk is listed below by others, but it’s worth noting that both Richard Hipp (SQLite) and Antirez (redis) are (or were) very deeply involved with Tcl. I think there maybe a positive feedback loop/environment wrt engineering disc
21. 681.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    I doubt anybody thinks you’re really being macabre, purposely or otherwise. It’s sort of accidental poetry.
22. 682.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    > everyone is heading to a funeral. Like they got tired of carrying their soul [...]
23. 683.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    Huh - that’s confusing in the context of this example, but indeed tests fine on my system (nvi). Since the “word” in question is “<div>”, I thought the \< was just an escape. I looked in various docs and the best I see in Tcl re_sy
24. 684.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    > :sh (go back to shell and do your thing and leave vim running) In nvi (at least), one can also open a buffer and :script to run a shell inside vi and have all the yank/paste/navigation/all-the-things features of vi. Mi
25. 685.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    * applies oxidizer with a Zorro flourish
26. 686.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    The Unix Heritage Society - https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs
27. 687.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    I’ve seen this too, and yes, it’s nice. I don’t know where in the stack this feature lives.
28. 688.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    > They don't provide knobs because they're a bad idea for input I like knobs because the distance from the center of that control (radius of your arc movement) can be a “fineness” or “coarseness” control. I think sliders don’t
29. 689.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    > It appears that just like there are those that think C was the genesis of systems programming, with very little attention being given to what happened 15 years earlier This is why I think it’s important to get familiar and listen to Ol
30. 690.▲
    by bch 7y ago

    Curious what the rest of your dev env is...