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by jff 10y ago
dd if=/dev/urandom count=1024 bs=1 | xxd -b Then I hit "d" for 1, "f" for 0 as I read through the bytes of output. It stuck around 0.5 the whole way, which is what I expected.
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by jff 10y ago
cat-v is full of assholes, yes, and most of the Plan 9 community retains what I call "a sad devotion to an ancient religion"--anything written at Bell Labs is holy writ, anything written outside is suspect and probably tainted, mu
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by jff 10y ago
Inferno isn't Plan 9. Written by the same people, yes, but it's a different OS running on a virtual machine rather than x86, different programming language, etc. The main commonality is 9P, which enables some other similarities su
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by jff 10y ago
By "the actual product" you mean "a completely different OS written on a virtual machine that happens to also run on Plan 9", then yes. Inferno has 9P, it has a lot of the same good stuff as Plan 9, but there's a pr
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by jff 10y ago
Today I learned the New Black Panthers are literally the only source of left-wing hate.
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by jff 10y ago
I'm sure the guy who thinks it's spelled "Plan-9" has some very insightful things to say. Maybe it's time for me to blog about Ruby/On/Rails, the latest web-dev hotness.
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by jff 10y ago
That was Ken Olsen
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by jff 10y ago
Remember you said this if they ever decide to censor someone you agree with.
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by jff 10y ago
I think a lamb roast, lightly seasoned before roasting, is one of the finest meals you can get. The flavor of the meat is exceptional, and you really owe it to yourself to try it if you can. Costco sells lamb roasts for a reasonable price.
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by jff 10y ago
Mine has the pharmacy just inside the doors and a cooler right next to the checkout counters filled with milk. You do, however, have to walk past a big cooler full of delicious cheese and fresh sushi pretty much as soon as you enter the doo
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by jff 10y ago
We just don't have a big culture of eating lamb for whatever reason. It may be a result of how the country was settled: sparse population, big open spaces with often harsh weather and large predators (coyotes, wolves, and mountain lion
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by jff 10y ago
I'd be interested in talking about the phone project in more detail... I'll even sign an NDA if the startup still exists, or just generally talk about Inferno. We have probably communicated on the Inferno list in the past, actuall
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by jff 10y ago
If you want to make a 9P interface to SMS without running Hellaphone, you should start by looking into the RIL daemon. If I remember correctly, it runs at the Linux level (not Java) and drops a socket somewhere. The Java libraries for makin
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by jff 10y ago
Only takes about 30 seconds to recompile the OS, though.
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by jff 10y ago
I've written a good bit of Inferno and one thing that's really neat is how closely related Limbo (the programming language) is to Go. There's good reason for this, of course-the guys who wrote Inferno went off to Google and m
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by jff 10y ago
> My doula rubs lavender essential oil on my temples, and my husband plays “Push It,” the Spotify playlist I created for labor and delivery. I have a photo of Beyoncé propped up on the over-bed table, because if anything can inspire me,
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by jff 10y ago
You probably have on in your pocket already, is the thing. (I agree though, I don't want this in my house, and I turned off the "Ok Google" functionality on my phone)
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by jff 10y ago
Man, how many people are doing this? There was a guy on the Something Awful forums who tried this, but his cart was a tow-behind bicycle trailer that he was pushing by hand and a wheel broke after less than 20 miles... also he hadn't b
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by jff 10y ago
I was trying to guess what it would be as I clicked... I figured it would be drinking tea, but the other candidates were: - Unspoken but rigidly-followed rules of decorum - Comedy that's mostly about someone breaking said unspoken rule
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by jff 10y ago
https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*HsD7w8Y1rQL9... Looks like my job is secure, then
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by jff 10y ago
> learn everything all the way from NAND and NOR gates, up to 7400 series IC's, to microprocessors, to assembly language, to C (portable assembly), to operating systems internals, to TCP/IP, HTTP internals, to HTML, and ultimat
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by jff 10y ago
One of my friends once told me, "We don't have spelling bees in India... it wouldn't make sense, when you hear the word there's really only one way to spell it." I on the other hand can't hear the difference be
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by jff 10y ago
I'm a little puzzled at his complaint that he can't transliterate Devanagari; although I've only learned some of the basics as I attempt to learn Hindi, it's not particularly challenging--it's just an alphabet (alph
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by jff 10y ago
They depreciate like they are cars because Japan focuses on the new. You don't buy a house, you buy the land, knock down the existing house, and build a new one. You don't buy a used car, you buy a new one unless you're broke
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by jff 10y ago
> Sometimes I think RMS would be happier if the web had just stopped development after the release of the Mosaic browser Sometimes I look at modern websites and think I'd be happier too.
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Devuan 1.0 (systemd-less Debian fork) hits beta(beta.devuan.org)
5 points by jff 10y ago|1 comments
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by jff 10y ago
You're allowed to say "fucking" on HN.
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by jff 10y ago
> It isn't a meaningful date for anybody It's actually a very meaningful date to a lot of people on this planet, although I'm not one of them. We used to refer to years past that date using a short phrase in a dead languag
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by jff 10y ago
What makes it so Common? What great event occurred on the year 1 CE that we decided we should start marking our years from that point? Ovid writing "Metamorphoses"?
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by jff 10y ago
It was full of trash back when it was paid per "borrow" too. People would crank out dozens of 30-page erotica shorts per month, and each time one of those was read they got paid as much as the author of a 300-page novel. More, in

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