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by chubot 3y ago
Pretty sure it was never like that, it was always gated by iTunes. It was an integrated system, not an open one. Definitely is today. It's difficult to copy mp3 files directly to an iPhone and play them. Even from a Mac, but even mor
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by chubot 3y ago
This comment is ignorant of history It happened with Napster, then Apple Music, now streaming services There is no widespread file sharing in the general public, instead we have devices that we don’t own, and streaming subscriptions Apple d
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by chubot 3y ago
It runs on WSL, not sure about Cygwin Interactive shell screencasts was the last blog post: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/12/screencasts.html Real Unix users download and build tarballs, they don't
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by chubot 3y ago
(author here) Yeah you just repeated what https://oilshell.org/ is You'd want to be able to go $NEWSH my-bash-script.sh and it should just work. $NEWSH my-newsh-script.nsh should also work, obviously. osh my-ba
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by chubot 3y ago
I mentioned my Zojirushi toaster oven in another comment .. I use it as a toaster, and for a dozen other things. But it looks like they don't make the bread slice kind of toaster.
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by chubot 3y ago
I need a new washer-dryer, and now I'm scared to buy one. (The one from 2007 seems to eat clothes now... not sure if these things can even be repaired) Many years ago I came across https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyItFo
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by chubot 3y ago
Innovator’s dilemma. People you hire will grow the current business, rather than sacrifice the current business to find and build the next one
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Interface Dispatch in C++, Java, C#, Go, and Rust(lukasatkinson.de)
2 points by chubot 3y ago|0 comments
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Building a Simple Metaobject Protocol(lukasatkinson.de)
3 points by chubot 3y ago|0 comments
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by chubot 3y ago
My recommendation of Fall of Civilizations podcast from a few days ago [1] seems relevant here: https://www.youtube.com/@FallofCivilizations/videos Maybe it will be some solace that's excellent work done by one yo
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by chubot 3y ago
Hm I also cancelled about a month ago, after more than 10 years. I noticed there was good quality content on YouTube I was watching more. I think the tipping point was that I got sucked into quite a few low quality crime documentaries, whi
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by chubot 3y ago
Those 2 points are exactly what my comment said
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by chubot 3y ago
I just meant there are a zillion different known ways of optimizing JSON, that maybe could be applied here. But maybe they already optimized it to the degree they're willing and wanted a binary format
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by chubot 3y ago
Users don't read docs, and any visible implementation detail becomes set in stone: https://www.hyrumslaw.com/ It looks like they're aware of that ... it's probably fine -- not ideal, but fine If users didn&#x
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by chubot 3y ago
What if you need to embed a txtar file in a txtar file? Formats without escaping eventually grow a bad version of it
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by chubot 3y ago
Hm I googled and found this draft of the encoding - https://sqlite.org/draft/jsonb.html It feels like it would be better to use a known binary encoding. I thought the MessagePack data model corresponded pretty much ex
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by chubot 3y ago
I like San Francisco a lot for biking Main thing I learned too late is to just build your ability to climb hills (on a bike, or even when walking I suppose) ... that opens up a lot of the city Twin Peaks and the top of Potrero might out of
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by chubot 3y ago
Yeah in general the existence of so many sophisticated peoples without surviving words or even names/identities -- peoples with the ability to wage warfare against established civilizations like Egypt -- is a bit haunting to me It remi
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by chubot 3y ago
Uh, why call it HTML? Why not call it HTML-Stack or something? It's not HTML, but a language using HTML syntax.
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Oils Winter Status Update(oilshell.org)
2 points by chubot 3y ago|0 comments
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by chubot 3y ago
This has bugged me for a long time too – on Linux you can use readlink -f to get realpath, but that’s not available on OS X. So I built it into Oils (both OSH and YSH): source $_this_dir/lib/util.ysh $_this_dir is a spec
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by chubot 3y ago
western countries safety position improves This is just weird, because Russia is a much weaker country than the US, and many European countries. Economically, they are tiny. e.g. I just Googled and found this https://twitter.c
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by chubot 3y ago
Yes! The Ikea reverse engineering, the Corvus, and the sudden huge Roman casualties were all mentioned in the Fall of Civ episode! Pretty crazy and fascinating
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by chubot 3y ago
Ha I just watched a documentary that mentioned this pigment. Fall of Civilizations 17 - Carthage: Empire of the Phoenecians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dbdVhVSat8 This whole channel is absolutely amazing. I watched
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by chubot 3y ago
Wow this is crazy, I took a cab from queens to Brooklyn once, and it was weirdly long and circuitous Didn’t realize there were places like this though
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by chubot 3y ago
(1) Zulip Chat - https://zulip.com/ - seems to be reasonably popular, but more people should know about it I’ve been using it for over 5 years now [1], and it’s as good as ever. It’s way faster than any other chat app I’ve
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by chubot 3y ago
I think C++ and Rust are honestly special beasts. I've heard experienced programmers say that you want to actually pick up a book to learn Rust, and the same is true for C++. Like you can basically hack your way through learning Pytho
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by chubot 3y ago
Wow, much better answer than I expected on Reddit!
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by chubot 3y ago
Also I pointed out an issue in my comment that C# got wrong, then fixed -- closures created in loops
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by chubot 3y ago
You might be referring to this, which I think is even more accurate. Dave Herman quotes him: https://www.thefeedbackloop.xyz/stroustrups-rule-and-layerin... One of my favorite insights about syntax design appeared in a re

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