cb321

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by cb321 9d ago
Agreed! Relatedly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599953
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by cb321 9d ago
I just tried a tar file of a git clone of the linux kernel sources where the most recent commit is 72c395024dac5e215136cbff793455f065603b06 (early Feb of this year). zstd -19 got a slightly smaller size (3582930348 bytes vs bz3 -b 511&#x27
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by cb321 23d ago
The "scatter line plot" in TFA is all same shade of red on white with no year labels. This seems like a missed visualization opportunity. Using some kind of color scheme/gradient to represent the 1979-2026 years in a way th
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by cb321 29d ago
Don't forget head, tail, mount, strip, touch, etc. My GF when I was first learning these names was convinced the Unix principals did all this quite deliberately and "finger" was her headliner argument. Evidently, even in 197
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by cb321 1mo ago
I only said anything at all because the implication was not "missing minor nits about whatever your favorite proxy for 'will rely' is" but rather "nothing at all". FWIW, the keyword was "index" and t
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by cb321 1mo ago
I don't know what @winding means, exactly, but at best this seems highly misleading. Nim had babel packages by around 2010 (when it was called Nimrod and there was a Tower of Babel name scheme) and then nimble packages since 2014 or s
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by cb321 2mo ago
There is a python3 variant in this thread [1], but if that is not "standard enough" (as someone else may have mentioned bash itself is not POSIX), this awk would also work { Warning - this awk is 1000s of times faster than the bas
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by cb321 2mo ago
That Matrix visual was actually specifically mentioned as an inspiration in the video by the designer being linked to/discussed elsethread (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830326 )
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by cb321 2mo ago
FWIW, his screens looked a lot like OSX to me (which tracks with graphic design users in my experience). Anyway, he seems like a very nice fellow and I wish him and almost all T-shirt designers well. That bash script just gave me a lot of
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by cb321 2mo ago
Yeah. The Flask web-page prototype was indeed in Python. (The prequel shirt was Go.) { Also, it was my own Py version which I mostly did in case anyone wanted to actually run the thing after such interest was expressed on this thread. :-)
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by cb321 2mo ago
For anyone that cares, this is a slightly less stupid Python version: #!/usr/bin/env python3 from os import environ; E = environ.get from math import sin from time import sleep text = "♥PEACE♥FOR♥
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by cb321 2mo ago
I watched that whole video link - thank you for that - and he doesn't really say. In fact, he spends much more time on the beige color harkening to computer case plastics of the 80s & 90s. The AI not handling the output relates to
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by cb321 2mo ago
That is a good list. While I'm sure many companies could be added, I only post to include DEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation whose `vt50/vt100/vtXX` ideas may be with us,
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by cb321 2mo ago
`procs display` (mentioned elsethread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788167 ) supports PSS via its %M format code. One issue with that relative to RSS is permissions. Historically, all procs could see the RSS used
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by cb321 2mo ago
A different usage paradigm from *top that I have come to like better is to do differential ps-like reports and system-wide (like vmstat) reports which leaves everything in your terminal scrollback buffer as in: https://github.com
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by cb321 3mo ago
I don't really disagree much with what you said. My favored PLang Nim ( https://nim-lang.org/ -- it has both `ref` and `ptr` styles of pointer, one auto-managed, one manually managed) even changed a while back it's
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by cb321 3mo ago
For those new to the topic and less patient than "full conference" levels of attention, it doesn't cover things like UFCS/command-call, user-defined operators, or many other details, but for its incredibly short run-time
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by cb321 3mo ago
This may seem like a modern conflict, but what I like about your post is its more general human cognitive orientation. Since to each new generation everything is new, people tend to forget that this kind of tension goes back to the dawn
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by cb321 4mo ago
You can see all the details at: https://github.com/mratsim/constantine , but to answer your "how" question briefly here, something Nim shares with most (all?) "systems programming languages" is &quo
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by cb321 4mo ago
Ah. Good searching! So, maybe the 800,000 computers was "in DNS but un-pingable IP hosts" (dial-up was a big then then) or maybe included non-IP "networked" hosts or who knows.. Anyway, I agree that your finds make it
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by cb321 4mo ago
I am unfamiliar with the history of the piece. Many things are possible. He may have "mostly wrote" it in 1992 and then "polished it" for a 1994 Oita conference, but was somewhat sloppy in internally updating everythin
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by cb321 4mo ago
That's what I thought, too, but the top of the article says "For the Conference on HyperNetworking, Oita, Japan" which was in '94. So, I thought maybe "last summer" was internally even off by a couple years?
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by cb321 4mo ago
I think this was written in 1994 for this conference https://seclists.org/interesting-people/1994/Mar/64 , but I'm not 100% sure. It refers to "last summer's coup in the Soviet Union" w
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by cb321 6mo ago
In fact, to support your point, it is perhaps questionable from first principles if 3 dimensions not 4 is right. Leaving out tetra chromats and the (partially) color blind, normal human light perception is 1 kind of rod and 3 kinds of cones
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by cb321 7mo ago
To support your point, it's also used in basically every shared library / DLL system. While usually used "for code", a "shared pure data library" has many applications. There are also 3rd party tools to make
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by cb321 7mo ago
:-) If it helps anyone explain the SkiFire point any better, I like to analogize it to an I-bar cursor vs. a block cursor for text entry. An I-bar is unambiguously "between characters" while a block cursor is not. So, there are
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by cb321 7mo ago
As @SkiFire correctly observes[^1], off-by-1 problems are more fundamental than 0-based or 1-based indices, but the latter still vary enough that some kind of discrimination is needed. For many years (decades?) now, I've been using &qu
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by cb321 7mo ago
I don't use D.. I find Nim helps with even lower ceremony. That said, it's hard for me to understand how "getting into gcc" is failure. The list of such PLangs is very short. People can be very parochial, though. The
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by cb321 7mo ago
This can very clearly be said about C++ as well, which may have started out as C With Classes but became very kitchen sinky. Most things that get used accrete a lot of features over time, though. FWIW, I think "standing out" due
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by cb321 8mo ago
Yeah. I've been doing this for almost 10 years now. It's not APE/cosmopolitan (which also "kinda works" with Nim but has many lowest common denominator platform support issues, e.g. posix_fallocate). However, it

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