smorrow

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by smorrow 12y ago
Everything pictured on that page can be connected to something else in one way or another. The lifejackets you put on by taking the dude's head off then on again. The "dragons" are missing the top part of their heads.
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by smorrow 12y ago
Airduster is one way to take off the dirt without having to take off the books and whatever.
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by smorrow 12y ago
Is Linux considered part of the machine itself now? Jesus.
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by smorrow 12y ago
definitely feel like this one was more widely known in the days of printed manuals.
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by smorrow 12y ago
So far, I've never started typing until I knew what I wanted to ask, so I find them distracting. Sometimes I start reading them and then forget what my own query was.
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by smorrow 12y ago
I don't know, except that he's wearing a Bajoran uniform. I don't know if you noticed, but it's the same as the one Major Kira wears except in colour, like different-coloured Starfleet uniforms. Rom wears a Bajoran unifo
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by smorrow 12y ago
You've probably seen some code in a variable-width font at some point in your life, and just never were conscious of it because it looked so right. It's alot like syntax highlighting: people will lose their minds if you suggest th
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by smorrow 12y ago
Actually there's just one /env in Plan 9, that behaves differently depending on what pid is reading it. So it's like /dev/tty in Unix.
189.
by smorrow 12y ago
You're the only one that thinks anyone is talking about popularity. The fact is that if you had something similar to a word processor (for example) natively on Plan 9, you'd be able to read and write rich text, and still have it b
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by smorrow 12y ago
The same way you would on any other OS. No-one said everything has to be a file, even in Plan 9. Only if it makes sense to be a file. Semaphores aren't files, grep isn't a 9p server, neither is malloc, ...
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by smorrow 12y ago
Can you explain your footnote a bit more? Pronouns are a closed class, so I have a hard time believing some prescriptivists could have changed the way normal people use pronouns.
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by smorrow 12y ago
"you won't want to use it in production" Would you mind saying why? It isn't unstable or anything, just unfamiliar, in that you can't write C programs on it. But people do use it in production.
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by smorrow 12y ago
And shagging.
194.
by smorrow 12y ago
Who says you need the git part of it? I agree that git and mercurial are alot to wrap your head around, but you don't need them.
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by smorrow 12y ago
I like the modularity idea, I don't know if I'd want to be swapping components five times a day though. If the idea is just to have the same files/data on all your "different" devices, I think I like the idea of run
196.
by smorrow 12y ago
cd s*/l*/f*/p*
197.
by smorrow 13y ago
I don't know anything about the Swyft card, but I know something about the Cat (not much). The Swyft card implemented at least the cursor positioning stuff in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c#t=5
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by smorrow 13y ago
Linux can not be completely understood by one man or even a team of them, and by the time you do figure out what you need to edit, the whole thing will have churned. Linux is a complex operating system, and it takes a genius to understand t
199.
by smorrow 13y ago
That is quite informative, and also quite bizarre (for C). TIL.
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by smorrow 13y ago
You don't just "learn math" though, it's a full-time job to learn it. People go to university to learn math, and at least half of them probably don't understand it even then.
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by smorrow 13y ago
...bores me to no end. There's never any use for that stuff. The opposite direction is more interesting, when the far end of the cpu connection uses /mnt/term, especially for the like of /mnt/term/mnt/pl
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by smorrow 13y ago
I knew they were part of the standard library and the specification -- I mean, even the stdio stuff is, right? -- I had no idea the compiler had any involvement in that, though. I know gcc provides them for you if you don't specify t
203.
by smorrow 13y ago
Functions don't see arrays, functions see pointers, even if you passed an array. The sizeof a passed array is the sizeof a pointer. So they're not first class.
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by smorrow 13y ago
P.S: Read "Deep C Secrets - Expert C Programming", and once you've understood the chapter on memory, go back and read the malloc implementation in the back of K & R.
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by smorrow 13y ago
To elaborate on this... malloc and free aren't even a part of C itself. Other than static (globals and "static" the keyword) and automatic (stack) allocation there isn't any memory management in C itself. malloc and fr
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by smorrow 13y ago
I can't understand what you're saying about endianness here. If some file format or network protocol has a specific endianness in it, it has a specific endianness in it.
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by smorrow 14y ago
OK, my other post didn't really "explain the elements which make Plan 9 stuff awesome (in noob terms)". Here is one that attempts to, while not duplicating what's already been said. It's been said already that on Plan 9 you've got the same
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by smorrow 14y ago
That Wikipedia article is wrong in all sorts of ways. It was pretty good the last time I seen it, but clearly someone has been editing it who doesn't actually USE Plan 9. "To implement [NAT], a union directory can be created, overlaying th