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by tolciho 2y ago
Motorcyclists generally have some compassion for cyclists in that both share trouble with cars, and both have problems with staying upright. Multiple car drivers have tried to kill me in America; no such thing happened in 10 years in Pakist
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by tolciho 2y ago
"Normal Accidents" is a term for when things, well, normally go sideways in complex systems, and there's a whole book on it. Otherwise, it's pretty typical in disasters for there to be a laundry list of root causes and c
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by tolciho 2y ago
> Make code snippets copy/pasteable Naw, copying and pasting won't develop touch typing nor muscle memory skills. The prompt is sort of a context indicator for the command, as other comments indicate. Also if you're using
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by tolciho 2y ago
Even more amusing is when half your customers are in Gmail, the other half in Exchange, and Gmail and Exchange are having some snit so the emails ain't happening. You call up Microsoft and they want you to reboot (??) or login to some
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by tolciho 2y ago
Syntax highlights were probably the first thing I disabled in vim, though they kept adding features—"that's nice, but how does one turn it off?"—so I'm on vi now. Hella distracting to have bloatware spam you like a pachi
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by tolciho 2y ago
Banded Iron Formation: the reunion tour.
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by tolciho 2y ago
One liners. I dropped ruby when it could not express various one liners as well as perl can.
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by tolciho 2y ago
At least we're not being read to from a book called Ulysses?
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by tolciho 2y ago
Counterpoint may leave too much implied with only two voices; with four or more voices one must increasingly break or relax various rules that promote voice independence, e.g. the use of parallel motion where additional voices simply double
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by tolciho 2y ago
It is imperative in certain editors that you fumble for the mouse whilst in vi one can simply declare 3ff to get to the third f on the line. Granted, I mostly do not use certain editors, and accidentally compiled mouse click support out of
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by tolciho 2y ago
Some validators are silly regular expressions that someone wrote in a minute without thinking about it ("Mastering Regular Expressions" has a regex associated with it for better matching an address; that regex is quite the sight t
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by tolciho 2y ago
You got used to blocking all ads back in the "punch the monkey" days, while also wondering about the externalities of flyers put under car windshield wipers, many of such flyers ending up in the drains and gutters as you walked ar
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by tolciho 2y ago
https://britzl.github.io/roguearchive/ collects a bunch of roguelike (or -lite?) links.
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by tolciho 2y ago
The latest edition even comes with token ring wraiths.
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by tolciho 2y ago
You can (sort of) do this with a shell script combined with another process that seeks the (shared) file descriptor somewhere else in the file, as the shell is very line oriented. Not very well; it requires that the shell script block or sl
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by tolciho 2y ago
No, INTR "generates a SIGINT signal which is sent to all processes in the foreground process group for which the terminal is the controlling terminal" (termios(4) on OpenBSD, other what passes for unix these days are similar), as
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by tolciho 2y ago
Healthy companies may have CEO with domain specific knowledge of the field. Airbus, for example. Unhealthy companies may have capital-L Leaders living off in capital-L Lalastocklandia who have not done so well by various measurements, such
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by tolciho 2y ago
There are changes in other spheres too which we must expect to come. When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many
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by tolciho 2y ago
And then the key may be unclear, or musicians may differ as to where they feel, say, modulations occur: "it clearly modulates in measure six" "no, measure six is just a borrowed chord and the real modulation is at the cadence
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by tolciho 2y ago
And, less charitably, a means to direct a federal teat towards a certain company in that most peculiar form of American Socialism that takes from the taxpayer and gives to the already wealthy.
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by tolciho 2y ago
Go recently got run through the wringer to remove syscalls (and various Go ports are probably still broken) due to pinsyscalls.
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by tolciho 2y ago
Had vfork, unless you're on some not-BSD where vfork has remained relevant the last three decades? DESCRIPTION vfork() was originally used to create new processes without fully copying the address space of the old process, wh
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by tolciho 2y ago
Old folks, with a fine case of white matter decline. Distracted folks, because the baby just threw up. Sick folks, whose processing power is a bit covided. Young folks doing stupid things, possibly on a video dare.
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by tolciho 2y ago
Several no longer existing civilizations built out infrastructure that proved too complicated to maintain. So they had, for some time, "good employment numbers or infrastructure investment". Then they "were destroyed", o
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by tolciho 2y ago
Most composers, most of the time. Beethoven, on the other hand, refused to rewrite portions of the Ninth that were maybe too high for some to sing, and you can probably find difficult instrument parts if you chat to, say, Bassoon players.
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by tolciho 2y ago
The answer? Another answer is that the desert population collapses, possibly due to the breakdown of too complicated infrastructure and troublesome hand-offs of political power, factors one may observe in the decline of various other past c
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by tolciho 2y ago
Nope. Some folks start bad at, say, chess and stay bad, or will regress back down to 800 ELO. Perhaps they do not care, or their bad moves have become habitual, they are just playing to fill the time. Or maybe injury, pain, or mental health
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by tolciho 2y ago
This is fine until something uses more memory than is available, such as sox insisting on routing a huge audio file though a too-small /tmp, or the MATLAB installer likewise only using /tmp. With sox you could in theory recompile
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by tolciho 2y ago
Because even if you don't touch Windows (or whatever mediocre malware Microsoft presently peddles) those folks come to you and say stuff like "skype won't start" and lo! it does not start, though after much clicking arou
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by tolciho 2y ago
Indeed. For instance, one might ask Von Neumann what he thinks of the progress on nuclear power, given his prediction "given a decade of really large-scale industrial effort, the economic characteristics of reactors will undoubtedly su

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