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by bch 4mo ago
> For me, it'd be primarily having more than one undo Do you mean infinite undo? nvi has that. I'm not sure what you mean "set up as a tree" wrt undo, but i'll look into it. I think of nvi's undo as linear -
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by bch 4mo ago
> can’t remember ever meeting anyone who chose vi over vim Pleased to meet you. Most of my console dev time is spent in *BSD, where nvi is where I land. I find the the default creature-features of vim annoying, so I end up having to conf
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by bch 4mo ago
"The performance is off the chart!" <basic chart is displayed to illustrate(?) the point> More seriously, obviously a ton of work in an incredibly competitive space, and an incredible machine (without getting into competitiv
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by bch 4mo ago
> tray screen is very nice If you're talking about the screen on the arm w grab handles, I'd say it looks very practical , but looks like a design for a public space - like an accessible screen for buying tickets in a fairgrou
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by bch 5mo ago
Pardon the pedantry, but I the current abbreviation of the price ("Shutterstock to pay $35M") should be "$35MM".
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by bch 5mo ago
> No evidence is provided for the safety of THC vaping products. That's not the point - gwerns article dismantled the NYT article. If one read (or heard about) the NYT article and used it as "proof" of "vaping is bad&
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by bch 5mo ago
> The beer went from local to Bud and Bud Light. Then according to my wife, it went from Bud to Kirkland (the brand you find at Costco) So, back to local breweries? /s
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by bch 5mo ago
I didn't realize he was Canadian - as a child I got so much mileage out of Machine Language for the Commodore 64[0]. I used to think of my program, get out sheets of graph paper and flip through a table of opcodes I wanted to use, get
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by bch 5mo ago
>> monolith kernel written in C > Who is really running anything like this in 2026 and for what purpose? Am I parsing your question correctly?
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by bch 5mo ago
Its like rain on your wedding day - not actually ironic, just unfortunate.
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by bch 5mo ago
> an open-source application framework, was that hosting that used FastCGI, would not honor Auth headers So you were writing your application as a fcgi-app, and (e.g.) Apache was bungling Auth headers? Can you expand on this? Curious abo
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by bch 6mo ago
Before making sure you have access to good beans (had to carry on with the theme), make sure you actually want to have "coffee" as another hobby in your life. Maybe it's worth it to outsource to your local cafe the machine ma
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by bch 6mo ago
Would sound absurd to all but the nerdiest, most dedicated, but have you considered making your own water[0]? [0] https://www.baristahustle.com/diy-water-recipes-the-world-in...
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by bch 6mo ago
Fruity Kenyans and Ethiopians by V60 or Chemex, classic Italian on the espresso machine, the way $deity intended. Acidic espresso is gross, but the juicy acidic coffees shine as pour-overs.
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by bch 6mo ago
> For those unfamiliar, Slayer is (imo the best) one of the top $$$ machines and pairing it with a budget grinder is a classic sign the owner doesn't know a thing about coffee. The exception to that rule is Espresso Vivace in Seattl
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by bch 6mo ago
I think of it as BSD style, though of course it could be suggested/mandated elsewhere - [...]Use a space after keywords (if, while, for, return, switch). No braces are used for control statements with zero or only a single statemen
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by bch 6mo ago
> that was one of my inspirations Colins FreeBSD work or Emiles NetBSD work?
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by bch 6mo ago
> C++ is like C with extra features, but you don't need to use them C++ certainly (literally (Cfront[0])) used to be this, but I thought modern (decade or more) conventional wisdom is to NOT think like this anymore. Curious to hear
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by bch 6mo ago
see too[0][1] for projects of a similar* vein, incl historical account. *yes, FreeBSD is specifically developed against Firecracker which is specifically avoided w "Smol machines", but interesting nonetheless [0] https:/&#x2
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by bch 6mo ago
I think of this as the curse of Emacs. Infinitely configurable, thereafter entirely unique in the universe, which can be a double edged sword. See too (maybe it's the same thing) The Lisp Curse.[0] [0] https://news.ycombinat
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by bch 6mo ago
I followed your and @blymn's work then, and filed a bug report against veriexec. blymn gently improved the characterization of the problem and fixed it. That led me to start studying lex/yacc, instead of just treating them like ma
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by bch 6mo ago
> This is expected in the normal population A lot of people regardless of technical ability have strong opinions about what LLMs are/are-not. The number of lay people i know who immediately jump to "skynet" when talking ab
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by bch 6mo ago
Is anybody aware of audio-only coverage of this mission? I'd have loved to just tuned into most of the launch like radio, rather than having my unwatched youtube running.
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by bch 6mo ago
What a horrible (preventable) position to be in, though.
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by bch 7mo ago
New pasta paradigm unlocked. Sounds like a case of premature optimization, leaning too hard on DRY. Am reminded also of a discussion of software engineering between John Ousterhout (of whom I'm a big fan) and Robert Martin[0][1]. [0]
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by bch 7mo ago
> do you think "wow, cool, they got to wrangle all of that", or do you think "OMG they had to wrangle all of that"? I touch on similar point of view discussing digital audio work I do for fun. I use CSound, which I&
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by bch 7mo ago
I've got value over the years from Desiderata. At once both economical and powerful. I already mentioned this to @sillysaurusx but will post here in case it yields interesting comments. https://www.desiderata.com/deside
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by bch 7mo ago
Same. I loathe gyms, actually. Perhaps Ive been absent for too long to have an honest loathing, I've no attraction to them though (I don't begrudge anybody who likes them or uses them though - easy to see their value). A bicycle,
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by bch 7mo ago
+1 for physical exercise. Curious though why you (or anybody else) would separate running and/or cycling from the gym? Gym gets its own (emphatic!) category and the sports are separate. Not a criticism, genuinely curious.
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by bch 7mo ago
Maybe @dang can setup a roll-call for entertainments sake.

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