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by mst 2y ago
Generally, things that write tempfiles while processing data in /tmp and manage not to log enough because they wedge the system before it occurs to the code that anything's gone wrong enough to log. Yes, absolutely, "bad soft
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by mst 2y ago
My last comment was only addressing your 'too easy to' part (which, per sibling comment, may not be as universal an appearance as I thought). However, fair question. My answer here is that I am also really rather fond of timely de
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by mst 2y ago
Possibly it just fits my brain unusually well; possibly those environments have more footguns than the ones I've used refcounting in. I do think something Recycler-enabled is preferable, but I'm still very fond of deterministic de
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by mst 2y ago
Oh, fantastic, a rust implementation that already hives it off into a separate thread. Seems the README mentions neither 'Recycler' nor the authors so none of my searches found it; possibly I should file an issue suggesting the au
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by mst 2y ago
I really should take EF Core apart and see how it all works before I next work on db layer code, I've stolen ideas from older versions before now but I suspect it deserves a deep dive on the current version. (JS db layer code always ma
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by mst 2y ago
Once you've worked with refcounting GC systems for a while avoiding leaks becomes pretty much second nature. It is absolutely a pain when you first come to it from a mark and sweep GC'ed language but once figuring out the right sp
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by mst 2y ago
> One way to look at reference counting is as a sort of eager, optimized form of garbage collection that works in the case that you have strictly acyclic data (or can tolerate leaking cycles). It's interesting to note that python op
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by mst 2y ago
Having a "real" /tmp is not an uncommon preferences amongst sysadmins who've been at this for a while. Too many things that can wedge a system only leave evidence of why/how they did that in /tmp so still havin
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by mst 2y ago
Providing a link to their own comprehensive guide to turn everything off definitely earns style points in my book.
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by mst 2y ago
Title feels a little bit misleading - they're not collecting 'categorised search data' so much as 'categorising searches and then collecting an aggregate of only the categories.' I'm not entirely sure how to ph
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by mst 2y ago
"my current favourite discovered dark art" is an excellent way to put it and I may end up stealing it.
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by mst 2y ago
I suspect it's mostly "because it occured to me I could," which I think should always be an acceptable reason for building something slightly unusual. I do rather like the idea of play via stateless link passing, though, and
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by mst 2y ago
I never had those habits, though I have passed that stanza on to people who were just learning to help remind them to use hjkl. I just tend to turn off things I only ever hit by accent (see also the :h override).
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by mst 2y ago
Because I don't ever hit them except by accident while using vi(m) so disabling means an accidental keypress does nothing rather than something I didn't want. (my main reason for preferring original ex-vi is that when I typo a com
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by mst 2y ago
I think I have a very vague memory of the "hang, hang, hang, SURPRISE! You're dead" thing happening in Diablo II but it's been so long I wouldn't bet on having remembered correctly.
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by mst 2y ago
Many people don't care for it, and I made peace with that many moons ago; personally, I'm quite fond of what I'd call 'applications perl', which at least when I write it tends to be a mixture of OO and function comp
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by mst 2y ago
Maybe because 'dialog' says "don't do that" but everybody did anyway? (also possibly because the "insert into top layer" is sufficiently odd a thing to trigger that the designers felt representing it as an
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by mst 2y ago
I tend to use "apples to aardvarks" but now I'm not sure whether I like mine or yours better. Shall have to alternate them for a bit and call it A/G testing.
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by mst 2y ago
[ponders offering to swap for half his sandwich] [realises he made himself a bacon and sausage sandwich] ... never mind. [googles in shame] ... ooooh, it's a cousin of a Yorkshire Pudding, I knew it looked tasty!
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by mst 2y ago
Also useful for jumping back and forth between e.g. multiple repl sessions (the re.pl on the top left is a readline frontend wired up over a socket to an p3rl.org/Eval::WithLexicals instance running inside the server I was debugging th
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by mst 2y ago
If I'm on somebody else's system and need to hit the ground running Right Now then this comes into play instead - https://trout.me.uk/X11/vimrc (I think it's been a few years now since I've been ann
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by mst 2y ago
Bugger. Apologies for posting misinformation. (at least I warned people I was undercaffeinated?)
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by mst 2y ago
I just realised something terrible. This code is ADTs for C. At some point somebody's going to call it CADT and jwz will explode.
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by mst 2y ago
I would be so tempted to name the variable 'ity' instead of 'v'.
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by mst 2y ago
My view of Go went from being annoyed to "they picked their tradeoffs carefully and consciously and then leaned into them hard to squeeze every ounce of upside out of them" and while it's still not really my preferred aesth
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by mst 2y ago
The examples for the math functions ( https://elv.sh/ref/math.html ) include 1/2 as an input so infix math appears to be there (I'm undercaffeinated so haven't found the correct doc page to describe it, on
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by mst 2y ago
I'm afraid I really need ^Z, %-, %3 and %foo for interactive use. See e.g. the top-right xterm in https://trout.me.uk/screenshot3.jpg for why. Tried to switch to a ksh for a while and ran face first into that, though
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by mst 2y ago
There's a long tradition of sharing illustrative code snippets on IRC by typing it straight into a pastebin linked to the channel. The odds of them containing at least one stupid and one subtle mistake are very high, but they're i
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by mst 2y ago
Reminds me of an entry from my quotefile: < HellKat> the clock itself is set to UTC but it has a weather facility too - if you set the GPS coordinates < HellKat> temps right, weather however is wrong, comp says cloudy, looking o
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by mst 2y ago
I shall have a read through https://github.com/flowbase/flowbase later, thank you.

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