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by bch 8mo ago
> you have your car when you get there Depending on the destination of course, I often find having a car in a city like having an albatross around my neck. The benefits or features get outweighed by traffic and parking. I'll take go
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by bch 9mo ago
Hrmm - this loads (better than original article), but is nuked shortly thereafter. :(
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by bch 9mo ago
Archive - https://web.archive.org/web/20260120184214/https://www.thegl...
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by bch 9mo ago
Not worth it for the $0.10 return. Put more down there to incentivize.
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by bch 9mo ago
In the intro I liked the precursors to the IBM "Thinkpad" name.
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by bch 10mo ago
Or 0. Lua is in superposition, ready for the quantum computing age.
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by bch 10mo ago
Tcl too, fwiw[0]. [0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/NRE
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by bch 10mo ago
I wouldn't believe it either unless I heard it directly from my earnest friend who learned at that moment: 1) cars have oil 2) said oil should be changed regularly
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by bch 10mo ago
I had a friend who had a Honda (edit: actually, Toyota iirc) for ~15 years that didn’t know it had oil; So when they sold it and was asked how often the oil was changed, the potential buyer was met with a quizzical look. Tires and gasolin
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by bch 1y ago
I thought preheated was the LEAST shocking to devices in the oven, otherwise they're in the cold oven (fine) until you start heating and they take the full energy from the elements trying to get the env to temp(not good). I guess too i
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by bch 1y ago
> Rusts tooling is hands down better than C/++ which aids to a more streamlined and efficient development experience Would you expand on this? What was your C tooling/workflow that was inferior to your new Rust experience?
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by bch 1y ago
Made this mistake w VirtualBox once - never again. I ended up somehow running the proprietary version which “phoned home” and some 30 or 60 days later corporate got a call. When it comes to Oracle, I take Nancy Reagan’s advice [0]. [0]
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by bch 1y ago
How does mimalloc telemetry compare to jemalloc?
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Dieter Rams Turns 93(instagram.com)
3 points by bch 1y ago|1 comments
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by bch 1y ago
> light beans == more caffeine For any single lot. Different varietals can have different caffeine levels -- so one can imagine a dark-roasted high-caffeine bean having more caffeine than a light-roasted low-caffeine bean.
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by bch 1y ago
TIL
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by bch 1y ago
Does this block things like the unconventional Google-filing trick of: myemail+90sdev@gmail.com which gives me the “90sdev” tag for my emails, which still go squarely into my “myemail@gmail.com” address? I don’t know what the best ro
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by bch 1y ago
See too Gysin/Burroughs c. 1959.[0] Bowie would have been ~12yo. [0] https://www.languageisavirus.com/creative-writing-techniques...
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by bch 1y ago
And one probably wouldn’t notice , but the buffer is backed by a “recno”[0] Berkeley DB instance[1]. [0] https://edoras.sdsu.edu/doc/BerkeleyDB/ref/am_conf/logrec.ht... [1] https://en.wikiped
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by bch 1y ago
> Libertarians took over a town in NH and abolished town wide garbage collection. Presumably this is the case you’re citing: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-...
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by bch 1y ago
> CMake gets a lot of hate because a lot of large projects use it poorly and the syntax is strange Sounds like a ”you’re holding it wrong” [0] defense. In my experience, it’s exciting to start using it, then you start pushing it and it’
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by bch 1y ago
You found out being a good listener doesn’t just mean being within earshot. I don’t know how common or rare good listeners are, but I have one friend who is phenomenal, and it’s nearly mind-boggling what a difference that makes.
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by bch 1y ago
Just yesterday i saw this quote from Brian Eno - Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well. I pondered it a bit and arrived at "lea
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by bch 2y ago
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
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by bch 2y ago
> The last release being «Version 6.4.0 released 2022 12 30», links from 2007 and 2012 do not lend much assurance that the project is still alive in 2025 – compared to other similar projects. Right - the git repo has commits from yesterd
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by bch 2y ago
> I am not sure whether DragonBSD is dead or alive today at all. Oof, yeah.[0][1]. I hope they're doing alright - technically fascinating, and charming as they march to the beat of their own accordion.[2][3][4][5] [0] https:/&
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by bch 2y ago
> Mach’s virtual memory (VM) system was influential beyond the project – it was adopted by 4.4BSD and later FreeBSD as their memory management subsystem. …and NetBSD[0], OpenBSD[1], but apparently not DragonFly BSD[2]. [0] https:/&
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by bch 2y ago
I was going to say releases are published to Sorceforge[0] but indeed those look to be all src too. That said: I’d be surprised to find a distro that doesn’t have Tcl available in whatever package manager(s) they support. [0] https:/&
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by bch 2y ago
Cisco iOS[0], F5 iRules[1], Tealeaf network monitoring/processing[2][3], Fidessa[4][5], … [0] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/ios_tcl/co... [1] https:/&#x
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by bch 2y ago
I think he was worried about Sun Microsystems involvement[0] w Tcl when John Ousterhout went there[1], too. But mostly seems like a collection of unsolicited strawmen[2]. Also probably love-of-lisp. [0] That any proximity to commerce is evi

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