salmo

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by salmo 4y ago
Yeah, huge early adopter of lex and yacc. Really drove the potential of pipes. He’d take half baked ideas and show Thompson, Richie, et al the real potential. Kicked off many late nights of their inspired work. Such a supportive human b
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by salmo 4y ago
The Kernighan thing is a kinda and a definitional problem. No he didn’t work on the kernels or C. But he did work on awk and write a lot on top of roff that made Unix useful to Bell. It really started as a documentation system internally.
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by salmo 4y ago
Usually you can , but it better be worth it. You’ll have to get an officer to say they’re willing to accept the risk with a high level legal counsel. If you tossed this idea up to that level, you’d piss the officer off for wasting his time
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by salmo 4y ago
Was going to say the same. China was consistently in this state for most of recorded history, looking to past Dynasties for solutions to current problems. Or maybe more on point, the Yellow Emperor. Egypt had Horus in a very analogous ro
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by salmo 4y ago
I still use the fool out of vagrant. I often have to write small tools that run across 10000s of servers running various versions of OSes (but all x86 these days, thankfully). Almost always I need to hit /proc, /sys, and various
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by salmo 4y ago
This has a tech solution, but the same people problem. Look at the % that have “leftist” in the description. Again, politics come before interest just like the existing sites. I decided to still look. There seems to be no interest-based com
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by salmo 4y ago
Seems weird it doesn’t seem to integrate with any TSDB that I can see quickly skimming the site. Maybe I missed it or maybe “home lab” doesn’t mean what I think it means. I have junk emitting metrics from systems and sensors all over my ho
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by salmo 4y ago
Oh, good point. When pv sees the actual file vs stdin, it can give % progress without hints. Which is nice. And it’s nicer that the recent ‘dd status=progress’ (if I remember that option right).
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by salmo 4y ago
Sorry, that came off snarkier than I meant rereading it. You’re 100% correct. I’ve grown more tolerant of these ceremonial uses. There really aren’t many folks that understand shell. I see it in CICD, etc all the time, too. The one left tha
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by salmo 4y ago
It’s funny (given that the name likely is inspired by Useless Use of ‘cat’) that examples here have actual useless uses of ‘cat’. ‘cat file | pv > disk’ can just be ‘pv < file > disk’. But whatever. I’m sure 90% of code stems from
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by salmo 4y ago
That’s a good point. These days you likely don’t have to worry about device codec support and space limitations like I used to. I used to have a whole workflow of rip to FLAC, import metadata then fix it, then a script to convert. I overeng
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by salmo 4y ago
Funny how people complain about Apple dropping devices, but this has hung around so long. Thought it was dead years ago. Real use would have been a fake phone for kids. I see so many bemoaning streaming. Your iPhone can store far more musi
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by salmo 4y ago
I think nearly all Linux distros did this when they adopted systemd. That’s where I first read this argument. I know RHEL, Debian, and Arch do. Not a lot outside of those families.
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by salmo 4y ago
I slowly ran out of use cases for a "home server" as everything moved to "the cloud" (hand wave), streaming and Apple took most of it away. Keeping a static IP for mail and web got more expensive that Google Apps for Do
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by salmo 4y ago
I’m mostly an infrastructure guy. I mostly fix C or identify bugs, and write integrations in Go or Python. But I spend probably 50% of my time dealing with production problems due to this in Java business applications. Nearly every client l
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by salmo 4y ago
It's a big deal because a) they never fixed it and b) you have to replace the whole top half including the touchbar, etc. Mine died twice under 3 years of Apple Care and is going out again now. I don't like the short key travel,
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by salmo 4y ago
Pretty cool for me. I was looking to use the kindle for a dashboard for some metrics. I really want it to start up and "just work" and not have to mess with the browser every time. I like the idea of framing an eInk display on t
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by salmo 4y ago
I think the “in principle” is the problem. The tech isn’t the principle. The experience is. Use the right thing for for the audience. Use a GUI, use a TUI, use a basic CLI tool for day-to-day. And sometimes that can even be additive where
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by salmo 4y ago
Ugh. This whole thing is exhausting because everything is so oversimplified (as is any conversation on the topic) and there isn’t a right answer. You can’t compare the architecture of VSCode, vim, emacs, VS, IntelliJ, etc. and come to any c
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by salmo 4y ago
This reminds me of 1998. I was in college and working at a mid sized business replacing a dumb terminal system on a VAX with a nice NT based GUI. I mocked the TUI. So antiquated running off a minicomputer. We rolled out the PCs and updated
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by salmo 4y ago
I found one in England from PiHut and had it shipped here a few months ago. But it was DOA. Their return process is that I have to ship it back and they might refund me for that. I just ate it. So if anyone wants a Pi 4 w/ 2GB of bad
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by salmo 4y ago
I haven’t enjoyed an image editor as much since Photoshop 5 in the 90s. Both the old Pixelmator and Pixelmator Pro have been commercial software I really felt like I needed and want to buy. It feels modern and natural on macos. It’s pretty
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by salmo 4y ago
I agree with the UI stuff and soft deletes. It was a lesson I learned about 7 years ago when I had users make some tragic mistakes in a system I made. “Are you sure?” doesn’t do anything more than a hand wave CYA. Showing the consequences d
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by salmo 5y ago
I took typing in HS on these. Sadly the trackballs were almost always worn out or gunked up. The paint program was pretty painful because of it in elementary school. We didn’t have any programming classes, just a room full of them for typi
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by salmo 5y ago
You do remember the hell that was the font tag, don’t you? I think a lot of confusion from HTML being used for UIs vs hypertext documents. It’s a natural evolved mess still balancing the two. But style should apply to the applied represent
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by salmo 5y ago
They remixed the singles, really making them more “radio friendly”. Compressed, polished, and out of whack with the un-remixed “lesser” tracks. The punk folks around Nirvana were surprised with how pliable they were with Geffen. Albini was
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by salmo 5y ago
Came to say the same. The vast majority of these were superseded by new products or their feature set was absorbed by other tooling. Back office was one of the worst examples. It became baked into Windows Server except Exchange. I’m no fan
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by salmo 5y ago
I can’t choose an option where the terms may change in the future. And that “combined software has to be GPL” isn’t OK with me. I’m just not happy with the GPL from a legal and philosophical stance. Totally recognize I’m weird and pedantic
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by salmo 5y ago
The FSF party line is that it isn’t anti commercial and the GPL is copyleft, not viral. But you know… But dual licensing has been around for decades and I’ve never heard them oppose it. In practice here, no commercial licensee will want to
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by salmo 5y ago
Bold move not adding the LGPL or other more open license for a library. I get it. They want it used for OSS or get paid. But I think that limits the user base and therefore its appeal to folks who would actually pay for it. It really wil

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