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by bch 2y ago
I might be misunderstanding, but are you talking solely about the most here? I'm mostly curious about the chorded "keyboard"(?) as an input device - have you spent time with it as a daily driver? How does it compare to a trad
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by bch 2y ago
Hi Don. I think this stuff is great, and applaud your work, so don’t think of this as a slight (depending on the answer, of course): how practical is this? Again, if the answer is approximately “not at all practical”, that’s fair, but I g
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by bch 2y ago
This is well-put. I think it speaks to "its the journey, not the destination", not learning to ski by only reading books, and Chesterson's Fence[0], off the top of my head. [0] https://fs.blog/chestertons-fenc
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by bch 2y ago
> ... plus [reference counting] interacts badly with how modern CPUs work. Can you expand on this?
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by bch 2y ago
> For example, I am writing some driver software for a USB device right now. It is so easy to get the device into a bad state, even when staying within the documented protocol. Every time I implement a workaround, or figure out exactly h
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by bch 2y ago
> The GNU Make Standard Library (GMSL) is […] released under the BSD License. That’s mildly interesting.
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by bch 2y ago
> If you didn't fix it, it ain't fixed AKA: “Problems that go away by themselves come back by themselves.”
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by bch 2y ago
> Rule 0: Don’t panic “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.” I know this and still get caught out sometimes… Edit: hahaha ‘Cerium saying ~same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683671
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by bch 2y ago
> Because OS doesn't really matter here. Arguably correct, but I really do like the NetBSD experience when I am dealing with the OS.
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by bch 2y ago
> It may not be mainstream enough for a daily driver Horses for courses - it's my daily driver for development and administration. To be fair though, I relegate the vast majority of consuming the web to a mobile device.
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by bch 2y ago
Airplanes are in on this action too. [0][1] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/10r3k9p/... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34616511
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by bch 2y ago
Don't break the chain! [0] [0] https://lifehacker.com/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret-2...
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Gödel's Loophole(en.wikipedia.org)
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by bch 2y ago
^-- mind atm the markup here is catching the poster by surprise. The math should read: 100*0.3 + 200*0.7 = 170. Not 100 0.3 + 200 0.7 (escape the *, or it bounds an italic section - *this* becomes this . \*this\* becomes *this*.)
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by bch 2y ago
I might stand corrected - my own citation lists dragonflies as incomplete metamorphosis. I guess it’s true that they don’t pupate, but I thought the juvenile was still striking enough to mention as not necessarily obviously a dragonfly.
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by bch 2y ago
> starting life as a worm-like thing. Not that different from a dragon fly[0], really. Most insects go through distinct metamorphosis[1]: egg -> larva -> pupae -> adult. [0] https://media.australian.museum/media&
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by bch 2y ago
> yup, WFC is exactly how it works Not according to the 1 of the 2 that are the studio[0]. [0] https://x.com/h3r2tic/status/1695073463294120219
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by bch 2y ago
D’oh!
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by bch 2y ago
> There’s also Void [...] Started[0] by NetBSDs (and Hacker News') own jmmv [1]. So if you're getting BSD vibes, now you know why. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_Linux?#History [1] https:/&#
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by bch 2y ago
> Tcl is basically a sloppier Perl That’s a hot take for one language with basically a sheet to describe it[0], and another whose “rules” are best described by “whatever this implementation does.” [0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org
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by bch 2y ago
youtube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLskKNopggjc4UnB5xEDH9Aup_...
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by bch 2y ago
> I know about CUPS. There is no real alternative on Linux, is there? I don't know what lifting "real" is doing here, but lpd(8)[0] (line printer daemon) is what we used to use, and printcap(5)[1] to configure. It was ge
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by bch 2y ago
Trrru'uunqa! (Probably).
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by bch 2y ago
I also used the wrong path for /usr/bin/env ;)
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by bch 2y ago
Indeed the backing implementation /generalization, stackless non-recursive engine (NRE)[0], developed by Miguel Sofer (RIP). [0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/NRE
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by bch 2y ago
> It is really hard to describe just how much better Tk was than anything else in the time frame. This[0] vs (from memory w/o a computer atm…): #!/bin/env wish button .b .b configure -text “push me” -action {puts “
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by bch 2y ago
Indeed, SQLite started life as simply a Tcl extension[0] that “escaped into the wild”. Redis was initially prototyped in Tcl too, and ‘antirez has nice things[1] to say about Tcl. [0] https://sqlite.org/tclsqlite.html [1]
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by bch 2y ago
> Is there a minimal amount of magic? No; the amount of magic you can do is effectively unlimited. I might be mistaken, but I think the OP was asking if there is surprising magic (I.e. special cases/considerations) built into the la
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by bch 2y ago
Standard fare: BigIP iRules in F5 network appliances (and A10 appliances)[0], orchestration in Argonne National Labs super computer[1], Tealeaf[2], Python Tkinter[3] … I use it day to day because it’s got a great balance of Lispyness and
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by bch 2y ago
Tcl Improvement Proposal (TIP) 602[0]. [0] https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/602.md

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