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by smorrow 12y ago
I want to like this stuff, but I can't see it passing McIlroy's Test.
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by smorrow 12y ago
by which I mean it's supposed to be optimised for these kind of multicore ARMs, if it's not already.
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by smorrow 12y ago
Once Servo gets better.
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by smorrow 12y ago
> dumb terminal > send a full screen to the user I think you're confusing Plan 9 with thin clients. Even the Blit in the video was a smart terminal ("you can run programs on it"). The way Plan 9 works is > send data
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by smorrow 12y ago
They're more expensive first of all. and each one has to be administrated individually, especially if it has a local disk. If the kernel is kept locally, then you have to go around each machine every time you compile a new one. Same th
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by smorrow 12y ago
That was Plan B. I've never used it, or read the papers or the manual, but everything was centralised on a single box. The reason the tar thing works at all is because all it contains is pointers to your centralised state. In case anyo
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by smorrow 12y ago
Inferno.
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by smorrow 12y ago
And so you should, because that's what it originally referred to: jack is short for jackknife.
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by smorrow 12y ago
Maybe, I dunno. But I'd sooner conflate, say, C and Java (something that would never happen, but anyway) than willingly conflate command-line and screen-oriented - the former are different in degree, but the latter are different in kin
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by smorrow 12y ago
MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging. It used to be NMR or NMRI, but you know what people are like when they hear the word "nuclear".
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by smorrow 12y ago
I don't know what "runs on the command line" means, but as for taking filename arguments... so does Microsoft Word.
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by smorrow 12y ago
He's completely correct, though. Most screen-oriented programs, in power and flexibility, are closer to pull-down menus with predefined commands than to proper command lines. ncurses is "GUI without the G", not "CLI&quot
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by smorrow 12y ago
> It's amusing the way FACE-DETECTION in my spiffy digital camera (an Olympus EM1) will find faces in all kinds of inanimate objects. They set out to specifically look for faces. So that's what they'll find.
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by smorrow 12y ago
I think regular phones replaces watches for most people.
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by smorrow 12y ago
> [...] convolution [...] component-wise multiplication in fourier space [...] convolution kernel [...] gaussian blur filter [...] Can I ask where people learn this stuff? Programming computers is pretty easy to learn by yourself, but th
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by smorrow 12y ago
It's interestng that you should say that, because the reason I don't usually like lecture videos is that they're too fast to keep up with, especially if you're writing notes. The worst thing is a guy talking and clic
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by smorrow 12y ago
sed -E for awk or grep -E regexes.
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by smorrow 12y ago
I think people like reading cat thefile | grepsedawk -opts 'prog' from left to right, and that they think the only alternative is grepsedawk -opts 'prog' thefile. But there's grep <thefile -opts 're'. I
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by smorrow 12y ago
If you were piping into that bracketed expression (instead of using a real file), you'd need "line", "9 read", "sh -c 'read ln; echo $ln'", or "bash -c 'read; echo $REPLY'" in
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by smorrow 12y ago
Most people probably have their own private words; it's hard to know what the "standard" pronounciations are if you're just reading text. Another one I've thought of is that I always say url, not U.R.L. - didn'
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by smorrow 12y ago
Pointer dereference is "at", since that's a reasonable shortening of "asterisk", and also accurate semantically. Everything else, I think, I just do in (what I'd expect is) the normal or obvious way. There&#x27
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by smorrow 12y ago
If that's your criteria for a good first language, then I'd say shell script. You already need to know a subset of the shell and its commands anyway, to be able to use the computer in the first place. So from there, learning the p
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by smorrow 12y ago
The horse thing seems like a bad analogy. Whether you're using a blackboard or some fruity iPad or whatever it is, it still must go through your eyes before you read it. So you don't "optimize for blackboards", optimize
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by smorrow 12y ago
Don't forget the slashed z so it's different from 2.
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by smorrow 12y ago
I'm saying it's a strange example to say that some languages do or don't have a grammaticalization of time, and then give two supposedly contrasting grammars as an example of each, when actually neither of them really has a f
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by smorrow 12y ago
It doesn't have grammaticalisation of time, is what was meant. It's obviously got at least one word for the future ("tomorrow"), which is kind of like having a library function strcat instead of just + Also, English do
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by smorrow 12y ago
It isn't a special case. (its : his) :: (it's : he's) So you don't say "it's" for the same reason you don't say "hi's".
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by smorrow 12y ago
Why would a native English speaker write "60 days mission"? Hypercorrection. which is a form of incorrection.
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by smorrow 12y ago
Just watch all of them. Yes, the first two seasons are weak... not as much as the first two of TNG or Voyager though...
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by smorrow 12y ago
Some, not all, two-part Star Trek episodes get remade as one ninety-minute thing, which might be what's causing that.

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