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Tcl 9.0(tcl-lang.org)
406 points by bch 2y ago|239 comments
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by bch 2y ago
Now the big question - was Baratza cool to deal with? I haven’t had too much interaction with them, but I replaced (they sold me) a controller board for my Vario-W for a reasonable price, as well as burrs and the drive. The machines are g
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by bch 2y ago
> Perl's regular expressions to parse […] To be fair, Tcl has Henry Spencer’s regexp[0][1], and is awesome; Postgres also base their regex on Henry’s work for Tcl[2]. Perl is certainly famous for its regex and popularizing thinkin
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by bch 2y ago
Tcl really became “Enterprise-ready”[0] at this time. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/1026619
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by bch 2y ago
This reminds me of finding out (the Hard Way) that Perl’s sort used internally[0] the same $a or $b that I happened to be using. [0] https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/sort If the subroutine's prototype is ($$),
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Iran Air flight 655 (1988)(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by bch 2y ago|0 comments
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by bch 2y ago
I worked at a coffee shop that accepted Canadian Tire Money for payment because we'd turn around and use it at the local Canadian Tire.
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by bch 2y ago
I second this (and see the link in response). Cliché, I’m sorry, but I’ll be looking for reasoning in TFA about 1-based versus 0-based indexing. Better for clerks, w/o programming in mind?
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by bch 2y ago
https://youtu.be/L49lxNLoCeA?si=Hzv-zYiW_iZh-JlF
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by bch 2y ago
TFA mentions the Sprite operating system, which brought us a few things, including (i recently discovered), pmake[0] (by way of Adam de Boor[1]) which was an early instance of parallelizing make(1), and begat BSD Make[2], which is lovely t
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by bch 2y ago
...and a10/F5 aFleX/iRules[0][1], and the scripting in Tealeaf[2][3], ... [0] https://www.a10networks.com/blog/aflex-tutorial/ [1] https://community.f5.com/kb/technicalarticles/
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by bch 2y ago
Lots of people care about it, and it's alive and kicking in-industry and being developed (Tcl 9 is imminent[0]). I've had fun w Guile over the years (though actually never considered its "heaviness"); fun. I'm const
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by bch 2y ago
JO is giant in the industry; a longtime working professional with fantastic pedagogical chops. In my opinion, if he's talking, I'm listening.
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by bch 2y ago
They're written in awktal.
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by bch 2y ago
Thanks. I appreciate the thoughtful response, especially as so many others are also clamouring for comments regarding their specific cases.
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by bch 2y ago
> performance bottlenecks/optimizations in general How applicable to the general cases is it? I’m deeply interested in the topic, but unlikely to actually be running KUTrace, fwiw.
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by bch 2y ago
> Execname is a variable in DTrace and not a probe (?), so how would it help with automatically attaching to new PIDs? You're correct, and I may have provided "a solution" to a misunderstanding of your problem - I don&#x27
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by bch 2y ago
> eBPF on Linux automatically handles both existing and new processes Without knowing your particular case, DTrace does too - it’d certainly be tricky to use if you’re trying to debug software that “instantly crashes on startup” if it co
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by bch 2y ago
And “notcurses”[0][1] [0] https://youtu.be/fq963c6Fl5E?si=msy2NkMC1WhsDbXN [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39215321
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by bch 2y ago
So hard to resolve this in my head - unless it’s understood there’s a “detonate” button attached to the code, that it might escape, or worse, that it gets passed on or sold(!!) is a chilling thought.
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by bch 2y ago
“Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?” Alice said, trying to feel interested.
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by bch 2y ago
I worked the 3-group version of this at Jet Fuel in Toronto some years ago; it’s lovely.
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Egg of Columbus(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by bch 2y ago|0 comments
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by bch 2y ago
May well be, but I’m reminded of Columbus’ Egg[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus
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by bch 2y ago
> Redline is a rare example Tekkonkinkreet
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>> I swore off buying junky stuff a long time ago. Life’s too short to be surrounded by crap that’s going to break the first time you look at it wrong, student projects be damned. > For me, the difference is that I'm more watc
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by bch 2y ago
> The Design Museum in Brussels also has a sizeable collection of Dieter Rams and other Braun items. Museum Angewandte Kunst (Museum for Applied Art)[0] in Frankfurt, too. [0] https://www.museumangewandtekunst.de/de/
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by bch 2y ago
I seem to recall good support for PC98[0][1] was seminal. Our friend ‘washbear has notes[2], which might be touching on (eg) KAME[3] too. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-98 [1] https://hackaday.com&#x2F
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by bch 2y ago
This, (and/)or start charging for the true costs (externalities).
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by bch 2y ago
It’s been both - was stack, converted to register[0][1]. [0] https://www.sqlite.org/vdbe.html [1] https://www.sqlite.org/src/info/051ec01f2799e095

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