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by tolciho 8mo ago
man -O tag=L ls would search for the L tag in the ls(1) man page, or there's man -akO tag Ic=ulimit to find whatever the ulimit thing is or for an even more general search a small wrapper along the lines of #!/b
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by tolciho 8mo ago
Such as the base OpenBSD vi, which only supports a single-level undo, which I am using at this moment (and still learning how to use, after a few decades). vim got curb-canned a while ago due to various "that's nice, but how do I
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by tolciho 9mo ago
Maybe Trurl and Klapaucius were put in charge of Q&A.
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by tolciho 9mo ago
According to Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893) a tomato is a vegetable, so the riourous may need to account for that in the appropriate jurisdictions, especially if tarrifs are on the line, or at least to rember to have bigger lawyers than
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by tolciho 9mo ago
King Louis XIV lost a bunch of his land to astronomers able to more accurately measure said land. This is the sort of thing that can happen when you want to turn your country into a world leader in science.
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by tolciho 9mo ago
A confused user once stopped by, they had a blank terminal, so I showed them how to select all which revealed the helpfully black on black text. These days I compile colour support out of st, or set *colorMode:false for xterm. "But you
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by tolciho 9mo ago
And of course XML libraries haven't had any security issues (oh look CVE-2025-49796) and certainly would not need to make random network requests for a DTD of "reasonable" complexity. I also dropped XML, and that's after
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by tolciho 9mo ago
> This is also a good reason to log everything all the time in a human readable way. You can get services up and then triage at your own pace after. Unless, hypothetically, the logging velocity tickles kernel bugs and crashes the system,
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by tolciho 10mo ago
Electric cars were a failure, their market share tanked back in the 1910s. So a vague "electric cars failed in the market" is technically true. However, that past failure is quite distinct from the current electric car thing.
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by tolciho 10mo ago
Some drunks in a gnu-shaped echo chamber concluded that the world is gnu-shaped. That's not much a joke, if there is one here. Such presently popular axioms as "unix means linux" or "the userland must be gnu" or &qu
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by tolciho 10mo ago
$ tar --help tar: unknown option -- - usage: tar {crtux}[014578beFfHhjLmNOoPpqsvwXZz] [blocking-factor | format | archive | replstr] [-C directory] [-I file] [file ...] tar {-crtux} [-014578eHhjLm
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by tolciho 11mo ago
> This completely explains why so many engineers are skeptical of AI while so many managers embrace it: The engineers are the ones who understand it. Curiously some Feynman chap reported that several NASA engineers put the chance of the
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by tolciho 11mo ago
Right now? John McCarthy invented the term in order to get a grant, or in other words it was a marketing buzzword from day zero. He says so himself in the lighthill debate, and then the audience breaks out into hoots and howls.
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by tolciho 11mo ago
> Anyway, I’d remind everyone that “using” RAM doesn’t mean “would not function with less RAM.” Except when something really does need more RAM, and fails. LLVM for example having, somehow, become a bit chonky and now fails to compile on
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by tolciho 11mo ago
> Honestly people who deny any usefulness of AI are getting dangerously close to flat-earthers by now. This is a remarkably useless argument; "any" could be anything whatsoever, for example that the fuzzy logic of some prior AI
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by tolciho 1y ago
The sending IP remains very relevant; it may be in a third-party blacklist (RBL) or site local blacklist due to prior spam from said IP or even nearby IP(s). Let's have a look through /var/log/maillog... okay that didn&#
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by tolciho 1y ago
Manifestations of the inevitable are older than what sillyvalley is cooking with (or coked up on), even older than the Manifest Destiny. Some pin it to the Renaissance, as opposed to the "dark ages" prior. Tagging the prior age d
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by tolciho 1y ago
Flash was the first broken site I ever encountered, some restaurant had an all-flash webpage. Never did end up going to that restaurant. Why bother? If they render content inaccessible behind some needless jank like Flash or JavaScript, why
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by tolciho 2y ago
Or mix things up with "I'm just the chef" Steven Seagal, though regardless the movie would be boring.
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by tolciho 2y ago
`ps ax | grep ffmpeg` sometimes will match grep itself, so either prevent the match from matching itself, or maybe instead use pgrep(1). $ ps ax | grep ffmpeg 66898 pe S+p 0:00.01 grep ffmpeg $ ps ax | grep '[f]fmpeg&#x27
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by tolciho 2y ago
Uh, "do not sound like Bach"? That's a regression from what David Cope was doing a few decades ago now.
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by tolciho 2y ago
> I'm not a historian and will not comment on this first part of the talk. It doesn't matter much, Okay. > What is robust? ... Is it the multi-year uptimes of a plethora of ... Big uptime systems are dubious. Probably a lack
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by tolciho 2y ago
Oswald Spengler also wrote stuff in "The Decline of the West", in particular about the rise of Caesar types at particular moments in the lifetime of civilizations considered as organisms that grow, flourish, and decline. On the o
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by tolciho 2y ago
I would imagine that the Chinese are good at wonton, though wanton outsourcing of wontons may not be in the best interests of local "pork" spending. Maybe if we had more details on how that whole Bronze Age Collapse went down we m
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by tolciho 2y ago
ping(8) has no particular access to the filesystem, and can only do inet and stdio. At least on OpenBSD. I have a modified version of vi(1) that cannot write outside of /tmp or ~/tmp, nor access the internet, nor can it run progra
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by tolciho 2y ago
David Eagleman has done some work with drummers. Granted the audio system might be a bit more accurate than the visual, or maybe drummers are just weird. On the other hand, vim taking 30 milliseconds to start (ugh) and having sluggish curso
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by tolciho 2y ago
$50 million?! That's about three orders of magnitude above where I got off the rat race. With any luck it'll hit a four orders of magnitude, though the Timon of Athens problem is not unknown.
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by tolciho 2y ago
One of them old Carter White House solar panels ended up in a Chinese museum. Reagan, by some accounts a conservative, apparently was not a fan of conserving the White House's energy expenditures. Reagan also cut tax breaks for solar p
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by tolciho 2y ago
The Manhattan project, which by some accounts was a fairly large and complicated project, had no mission statement known to most people doing their daily work to who knows what end. Sure, you could go with "stick it to the nazis",
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by tolciho 2y ago
The way too long link was not "clickable", so I had to copy and paste it and remove some whitespace. However, the text "namespace" was quite easy to select, as the terminal makes selecting text easy (not all terminals ar

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