pkrumins

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   by pkrumins 5y ago

   Amen.
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   by pkrumins 5y ago

   The first example is super super bad here. Never pipe `ls`. When you feel like you need to pipe `ls`, then you know you want to use `find`.
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   by pkrumins 5y ago

   Sir, you are absolutely and totally wrong. No sysadmin has time or interest to write programs or use "proper programming languages" to get the job done. Sysadmins know their tools and are fast and efficient. Zero sysadmins will ev
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   by pkrumins 5y ago

   I made something similar. Whenever I install a new workstation that runs Linux, I run this script: http://github.com/pkrumins/install-computer/blob/master/inst... This script installs all packages that I
5. 245.▲
   by pkrumins 5y ago

   Wow, TIL.
6. 246.▲
   by pkrumins 5y ago

   100% agree, this is the best article on writing great bash scripts.
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   by pkrumins 5y ago

   The order of LN arguments is #1 gotcha in my opinion when working in the shell. I was confusing the order of LN arguments for years until I read a pro tip that they are the same order as CP arguments. cp file1 file2 Creates file2 t
8. 248.▲
   by pkrumins 5y ago

   This is one of the best articles I have read on writing good bash scripts.
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   by pkrumins 5y ago

   Totally disagree. SICP is the most boring and hard to read book ever written and I don't recommend it to anyone.
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    by pkrumins 5y ago

    I agree that many of these books are hard and super boring to read. That's why I always recommend books that are written in easy and accessible style, such as The Little Schemer, The New Turning Omnibus, and Programming Pearls (not Per
11. 251.▲
    by pkrumins 5y ago

    Thoughts on a possible upcoming hyper-inflation?
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    by pkrumins 5y ago

    Not just trying to swallow, they have pretty much swallowed it. The one last thing that is missing is `cryptsetup` support in WSL and as soon as that works, I don't see using Linux myself anymore.
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    by pkrumins 5y ago

    The one last thing that has kept me from moving all my development to Windows is mounting drives encrypted with `cryptsetup`. Does anyone know if `cryptsetup` now works in WSL2?
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    by pkrumins 5y ago

    That's super nice! Quick question - what does the "13,813 ± 58 Ma" mean below every title? Is that some kind of time measurement from the Big Bang?
15. 255.▲
    by pkrumins 5y ago

    You mean abandoned software. Software is never finished.
16. 256.▲
    by pkrumins 5y ago

    All you need to know is the `if` statement. That's all.
17. 257.▲
    by pkrumins 5y ago

    My AI is the `if` statement.
18. 258.▲
    by pkrumins 5y ago

    https://i.imgur.com/qo7fKLc.png
19. 259.▲
    by pkrumins 5y ago

    Everyone's first language should be Perl.
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    by pkrumins 5y ago

    This is the best code ever written. It does the job and it's in production. The perfect code you never wrote is in your dreams. Services don't run on dream code. They run on code in production.
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    by pkrumins 5y ago

    This is exactly how code looks everywhere. It does the job. It's the greatest code ever written because it's in production. The perfect code you never wrote is in your dreams. Services don't run on dream code. They run on cod
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    by pkrumins 5y ago

    Call it "hq".
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    by pkrumins 5y ago

    Windows 2000 was the peak of practical and usable GUI design. It all went downhill from there.
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    by pkrumins 5y ago

    Now make a left-pad.cpp module and unpublish it.
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    by pkrumins 5y ago

    Simplicity is PHP – everything is included and you can get things done in minutes.
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    by pkrumins 5y ago

    I also made something similar: https://FinURLs.com – a neat finance news aggregator.
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    by pkrumins 5y ago

    I made an illustration from this quote: https://comic.browserling.com/93
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    by pkrumins 6y ago

    Twist ( https://twist.com ) solves this problem entirely. Instead of chat rooms where everyone chats about everything, it organizes discussions around tasks. Each task gets its own chat room. When you work on task X, you chat in t
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    by pkrumins 6y ago

    I and my team made this: https://onlinemathtools.com/l-system-generator . You can enter the axiom and the rewrite rules and get a visualization of the grammar. Also, in the examples section, we added 9 most popular fractals.
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    by pkrumins 6y ago

    I created the visualization for this story by running BB(5). You can find the source code (a full Turing Machine implementation that runs BB) and visualizations of other BBs in my blog post https://catonmat.net/busy-beaver .