koytch

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1. 31.▲
   by koytch 10y ago

   Agree on yuckity :) But 'simple' is a big thing. 'Familiar', too.
2. 32.▲
   by koytch 10y ago

   I left Mint (17.X, the MATE spin) with whatever default rc the Mint guys chose. Upstart, I guess. My efforts go into customising my home system to my liking and these days my tastes are simple: Sawfish+dmenu or CDE, when I feel nostalgic. I
3. 33.▲
   by koytch 10y ago

   Might try OpenRC just as well. I've always liked the NetBSD rcorder-based startup, and OpenRC reminds me of it in some ways. But to be fair, I'm not in a hurry to replace sysv-rc.
4. 34.▲
   by koytch 10y ago

   So a tinkering person who has in the past used Slackware (at the end it looked like a bastardized Linux From Scratch), *BSD and after much meandering settled on a minimal Debian desktop, but still uses Mint at work, should probably feel at
5. 35.▲
   by koytch 10y ago

   Along similar lines: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ Some of the PDFs also happen to be valid images, audio files, zip archives, etc.
6. 36.▲
   by koytch 10y ago

   It's ugly, simple and flexible. I can live with its ugliness (I don't change my crontab every day, after all) and simplicity and flexibility beat ini format/UX/etc. any time AFAIC.
7. 37.▲
   by koytch 10y ago

   Mise en abyme is tail-call optimised.
8. 38.▲
   by koytch 10y ago

   Mise en abyme is the new meta.
9. 39.▲
   by koytch 10y ago

   Apparently Watson believes Mr Schank has 'mixed' feelings towards it and IBM. Go to http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemylanguage , feed it the article link and see what happens :)