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by joepvd 11y ago
The other posts by this author also look very promising. Thorough, not afraid of theoretical backgrounds, and very insightful. Will be revisiting this site when I can spend some time without interruption.
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by joepvd 11y ago
Possibly, the better understanding of the problem domain would make a rewrite from scratch better than the existing stuff. That the improvements have little to do with the language in which the newly conceived solution was implemented.
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by joepvd 11y ago
Thanks for your suggestions, roel_v and a_e_k! Will play around with DrawIt, looks fun!
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by joepvd 11y ago
Absolutely fricking cool. Would need to learn some extra text editor tricks, however, to make it a smooth experience...
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by joepvd 11y ago
Looks awesome, but you might want to say this explicitly on the landing page. I also came here to the comments to ask why I would want to hand over account information on an unrelated service.
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by joepvd 11y ago
Not in the languages that I am familiar with. the big question is, whether it is before or after The Comma. The Comma does not need more qualifiers than that.
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by joepvd 11y ago
Thanks, but that leaves doubt whether you wrote a decimal or thousands separator. It is close to 5000 liters.
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by joepvd 11y ago
Mosh is a replacement for ssh (the client), but not for sshd, as it relies on it to make a connection. OpenSSH also is not meant to be replaced, which also has not been claimed in your link. Please pay attention to semantics while fencing w
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by joepvd 11y ago
Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything Excellent popular science intro to, well, nearly everything. Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, fast and slow Absolute recommendation. Is changing my perspective on myself and the world with every
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by joepvd 11y ago
Aha! That must have been the first time I have tried to read Tcl for more than a minute :) Looks like one can prototype fast in this language. Thanks for writing / posting!
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by joepvd 11y ago
Cool! Sorry for the plug, but this gawk program does something similar: https://github.com/joepvd/table Field splitting can be defined with all of (g)awks possibilities. Features different styles, among which unicode t
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by joepvd 11y ago
...and http://www.experimentingwithbabies.com . Awesome stuff!
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Show HN: Grep2awk zsh/zle utility function(github.com)
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by joepvd 11y ago
Sweet! You might consider using this command for a more human digestible listing: $ stty -a | awk 'BEGIN{RS="[;\n]+ ?"}; /= ..$/' intr = ^C quit = ^\ erase = ^? kill = ^U eof = ^D
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by joepvd 11y ago
Nitpick, sorry. `ctime` is not Creation Time, but Change Time. The traditional *NIX file systems do not have a meta data field for creation time.
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by joepvd 11y ago
Was interested to see what this is about, but the lack of contrast between letters and background put me off to make the effort to even try and get the point. Please, people who make an effort: Please do not do so in vain.
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by joepvd 11y ago
OT, but the only times I've encountered the word "foster", it is in the context of the European Commission, specifically in the context of what they want to achieve with grants. Is it my limited exposure to English, or has th
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by joepvd 11y ago
I recently find it easier to bite the bullet and write the command on the spot, rather than to try to locate some custom made three liner somewhere. Just writing the logic from scratch becomes effortless with a bit of practice. It helps me
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by joepvd 11y ago
That is an excellent documentation in the README. Even though I do not know C, I immediately have a clue of how to use this lib.
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by joepvd 11y ago
Discoverability can be configured in zsh as part of completion system. I've found that this covers many of my needs: % grep -<TAB><TAB> --after-context -A # specify lines of trailing context
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by joepvd 11y ago
vipe[0] from moreutils is a bit more general purpose command than this. It does not dictate the receiving end. So you can quickly check and correct data between pipes. Nifty stuff... [0]: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry&#
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by joepvd 11y ago
Honest question: Is there any benefit of using tmux over a proper tiling window manager? Or, why would I want to delegate some of the window manager tasks to a terminal emulator?
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by joepvd 12y ago
Looks very interesting. Has anyone already jotted down some experiences from using the bash kernel in a support setting? It would be awesome to be able to autodocument explorations and fact finding, for oneself, and/or for other inte
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by joepvd 12y ago
I took this excellent story the same as you did. For me, this is the central point: My gut still tells me I’m right, but my brain knows better than to trust my gut. This is a nice phrasing of one of the things one has to come
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by joepvd 12y ago
Excellent release notice, as it does not leave any questions as to what the software is supposed to do.
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by joepvd 12y ago
The best is that it does not make you depend on some plugin. Whatever experimentation with web browsers (dwb, luakit, ...), and the odd mail client that needs to access the web: The ad blocking just works. It is a solution implemented at th
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by joepvd 12y ago
Not trying to imply that it is trivial to set up a reliable backup and restore mechanism, but the link you provide hardly provides an example of the current state. Never heard of modoresque, but the documentation has not been updated since
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by joepvd 12y ago
I guess most personal routers do not ship with bash. This is what mine says: # ls -l /bin/*sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 9 2014 /bin/ash -> /bin/busybox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root
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by joepvd 12y ago
A very apt summary. Can anyone recommend something from The Other Side of the fence for desktop/laptop use? One of the BSDs? A spinoff from Solaris? Or, something else? I currently use archlinux, and value the rolling release approach
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by joepvd 12y ago
The management of OS updates also falls between resposibilities. Probably, the shop/chain owners will be responsible for OS and virus scanner updates, and because of lack of knowledge on their part, have been cause of critical disrupti

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