sigjuice

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   by sigjuice 9y ago

   1. I still need to grow my .gitignore file as I add more .el files of my own. 2. A similar scheme would be to maintain a directory called ~/elisp in git and make ~/.emacs a symlink to ~/elisp/emacs. And pretend that ~&#
2. 692.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   Really? C-h v user-emacs-directory RET says programs in Emacs store information in this directory . To me, this says ~/.emacs.d/ is not intended for humans. user-emacs-directory is a variable defined in ‘subr.el’. Its valu
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   by sigjuice 9y ago

   I have never understood the rampant practice of using ~/.emacs.d/ for one's personal Elisp files. Most of what is in this directory appears to be machine generated files from various packages. To me, it seems much cleaner t
4. 694.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   Developers might find an iPod Touch useful for iOS app development and testing.
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   by sigjuice 9y ago

   OpenBSD stopped claiming "N years without a localhost hole in the default install!" in 2000. See https://web.archive.org/web/20000815063126/http://openbsd.or... and https://web.archi
6. 696.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   The biggest stumbling blocks for IPv6 are the fact that many prominent cloud services don't fully support IPv6. Or have outright broken IPv6, e.g. Digital Ocean's /124
7. 697.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   I am an extremely casual FreeBSD user. I also happen to be an obsessive compulsive software updater conditioned to systems restarting and coming back after a few minutes. So this hanging thing had me completely baffled. It was also my fi
8. 698.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   I can add that I have experienced upgrade problems firsthand while running FreeBSD on Digital Ocean. In my case, rebooting after an upgrade would hang. https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-15:05.
9. 699.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   If another program runs in a rectangle in your browser, it should not be called "the web".
10. 700.▲
    by sigjuice 9y ago

    The original title is misleading. It should say Most GitHub projects are libraries or frameworks . It is quite a leap to go from 60% GitHub projects to most open source software .
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    by sigjuice 9y ago

    Apple will not make Macs forever. A macOS-ARM VM that runs on iOS is plausible. There is certainly precedent for this sort of thing (Classic on PowerPC Macs, Rosetta on Intel Macs). We might even have Homebrew ARM :p
12. 702.▲
    by sigjuice 9y ago

    Apple takes your money up front so they don't need to violate user privacy for business reasons.
13. 703.▲
    by sigjuice 9y ago

    The vast majority of issues will arise from software defects, not hardware defects. Exactly. The last thing I want in my house is a smoke alarm with software written by idiots like me.
14. 704.▲
    by sigjuice 9y ago

    It is good that they missed it. Google "gobar" and you will see why.
15. 705.▲
    by sigjuice 9y ago

    Yup. This was the subject of a recent episode of the documentary Silicon Valley on HBO :p
16. 706.▲
    by sigjuice 9y ago

    Limit the potential of fraud and abuse?
17. 707.▲
    by sigjuice 9y ago

    How does contributing to RISC-V help? Makers of RISC-V SoCs are free to add their own Intel ME equivalents.
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    by sigjuice 9y ago

    I am in the middle of reading Write Your Own Compiler by Nils M Holm . See http://t3x.org/t3x/book.html for the book and the accompanying code. I like it so far. T3X is a tiny (made up!?) procedural language.
19. 709.▲
    by sigjuice 9y ago

    Thanks! A CentOS 6 kernel source rpm that I unpacked recently had multiple patch files in it.
20. 710.▲
    by sigjuice 9y ago

    Sorry, I am still not sure what you mean. Could you point me at an example of 'patch metadata'? Thanks!
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    by sigjuice 9y ago

    What is the "extra information" in this context?
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    by sigjuice 9y ago

    So read the older man pages? Why is this a problem? You can also easily read the man pages for a specific version of FreeBSD here https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi
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    by sigjuice 9y ago

    Maybe rexec appeared first? And when rsh arrived later, they still kept rexec around? Perhaps they had a lot of shell scripts that contained "rexec" and didn't want to bother changing them to "rsh"? The actual reas
24. 714.▲
    by sigjuice 9y ago

    Agreed. Minicom is a reasonable choice. These days I use screen /dev/ttyS0
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    by sigjuice 9y ago

    rsh, rlogin and rexec each have their own man pages, which you should be able to find on freebsd.org if google is being difficult.
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    by sigjuice 9y ago

    Each of these FreeBSD commands have man pages which your googling should have shown.
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    by sigjuice 9y ago

    OpenBSD can do this and get away with it since its use and deployment is minuscule compared to other systems.
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    by sigjuice 9y ago

    How does telnet/rlogin over RS232 work? Do you use SLIP or PPP or is there some other mechanism?
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    by sigjuice 9y ago

    How much has OpenBSD been used and deployed in the real world compared to other systems in heck of a long time? It is simply not worth anyone's time to try and break it.
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    by sigjuice 9y ago

    Because libcs other than glibc are less bloated and probably easier to read. ~ $ cat empty.c int main(void) {return 42;} ~ $ gcc -static empty.c -O3 ~ $ strip a.out ~ $ size text data bss dec hex filename