oliverkwebb

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Practical Astronomy with Your Command Line(oliverkwebb.github.io)
9 points by oliverkwebb 1y ago|0 comments
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Astronomy: Time Is an Angle(oliverkwebb.github.io)
4 points by oliverkwebb 1y ago|0 comments
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1700 Cascadia Earthquake(en.wikipedia.org)
31 points by oliverkwebb 2y ago|2 comments
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by oliverkwebb 2y ago
He was the publisher of the Halloween documents (from my understanding leaked by a whistleblower to him) and has always been a firm opponent to Windows in all his works. Are you thinking of Poettering?
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by oliverkwebb 2y ago
Javascript is a famously cruft free language, as we all know. My real question is how you created an account, found this article, presumably read through it, and wrote out multiple comments insulting me all within two minutes.
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by oliverkwebb 2y ago
For a definition of "nobody" that includes Eric S Raymond, one of the most prominent figures in the linux world who's article ( https://www.catb.org/esr/time-programming/index.html ) I reference multi
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by oliverkwebb 2y ago
> Which language can do anything without some asm and support as many platforms as C? I wouldn't be surprised if someone figured out how to do the interrupts and register control necessary to invoke syscalls with pure LISP/Sche
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by oliverkwebb 2y ago
The core of C is pointer arithmetic; This creates a fundamentally unsafe environment. You can't even do anything in C without some asm (syscall wrappers) because C was meant to boil down and streamline PDP-11 assembly (Your computer is
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by oliverkwebb 2y ago
Thanks, the link esr provides in his website ( https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/time-programming/index.html ) leads to a 404
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Rethinking the C Time API(oliverkwebb.github.io)
68 points by oliverkwebb 2y ago|79 comments
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Echo(1) and Printf(1)(in-ulm.de)
2 points by oliverkwebb 2y ago|0 comments
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Xkcd Calendar Fact Generator(oliverkwebb.github.io)
2 points by oliverkwebb 2y ago|1 comments
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Data Structures for Text Sequences [pdf](cs.unm.edu)
5 points by oliverkwebb 2y ago|0 comments
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Decodeunicode the Movie [video](youtube.com)
3 points by oliverkwebb 2y ago|0 comments
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A overview of binaries, ELF, and NoMMU on Linux(lists.landley.net)
125 points by oliverkwebb 2y ago|4 comments
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DCE in static C libraries with function sections [pdf](elinux.org)
2 points by oliverkwebb 2y ago|0 comments
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by oliverkwebb 2y ago
It's general presentation style and the way it's supposed to spread remind me of https://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ Cool stuff, Although the fact it's under non-commercial licensing tempt me to just sl
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Time, Clock, and Calendar Programming in C(catb.org)
2 points by oliverkwebb 2y ago|0 comments
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Parsing Awk Is Tricky(raygard.net)
110 points by oliverkwebb 2y ago|90 comments
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Unit – Visual Programming System(github.com)
3 points by oliverkwebb 2y ago|0 comments
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by oliverkwebb 2y ago
I see it more as a piece of history than any actual measurement of someones "hackerness". It's a fun way of peering into the realm of 80s hacker culture and seeing what was popular or cutting-edge at the time ("Have you
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Hacker Purity Test (1989)(armory.com)
110 points by oliverkwebb 2y ago|105 comments
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by oliverkwebb 2y ago
> As a result, you don't have to write articles on your website first and have them be read by an RSS reader. I don't see how this is a problem, for proper preview, the markdown will have to get compiled into HTML/text any
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by oliverkwebb 2y ago
> The only reasons there are any issues with kind of issue merging code between different projects is 1) if you want to abuse users "Abuse" them how? There's nothing wrong with the GPLv2, and no one should be obligated to
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GNU considered harmful (By me, here's why)(oliverkwebb.github.io)
8 points by oliverkwebb 2y ago|3 comments
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by oliverkwebb 2y ago
A issue with this is favicons. Which take up loads of space since they are tiny (usually losslessly compressed raster) images. You can simplify them or make them smaller or in ycombinaters case turn them into SVG. But without _changing_ the
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by oliverkwebb 2y ago
Nice tool, I've been using html2md[1] and such. It's written in python and in beta so it's probably not the best for processing static sites and such. But still useful [1]: https://github.com/suntong/html
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by oliverkwebb 2y ago
Is there any chance this relates to the recent anti-trust case against google? I.e. making a attempt to appeal to user wants more since the majority of the money they make is at risk
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Cheat.sh: View examples of command usage(cheat.sh)
2 points by oliverkwebb 2y ago|0 comments