cogburnd02

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by cogburnd02 2mo ago
1. You can have a button for both. 2. Yes 3. I got stuck and couldn't get past RILGUN -- it'd be nice to know what the word you were going for actually was.
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by cogburnd02 3mo ago
Frogfind would probably be good.
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by cogburnd02 1y ago
May be good to have a comparison/contrast with something like xonsh, or comparison of use cases.
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by cogburnd02 1y ago
You really ought to watch the Black Mirror episode Plaything. It’s about digital pets with a neural network interacting with a human played by Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who) and the outcomes that might result from this.
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by cogburnd02 1y ago
Not even open source. Bleghh.
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by cogburnd02 1y ago
You should definitely watch the Doctor Who episode Partners in Crime.
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by cogburnd02 4y ago
But they left out the star marking the only location I want to know on any map of the Isle of Man: BigClive’s house.
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by cogburnd02 4y ago
Who is that, and why?
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by cogburnd02 4y ago
Can't distribution be archival? Thomas Jefferson: "Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as
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by cogburnd02 4y ago
If it can't be done on a MC68000 (or thousands in parallel), then does it really need to be done?
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by cogburnd02 4y ago
> What is GNU and what is not these days? There is a definitive list: https://www.gnu.org/software/ > Is Wayland? Is GNOME? Wayland never was. GNOME was at one point but isn’t any longer. > Have you checked ou
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by cogburnd02 4y ago
The main advantage of sixel is probably the fact that it’s directly backward compatible with old DEC hardware, which I happen to like to use. I could have, say, a pdf reader that renders the pdf to the screen of an actual hardware VT330 by
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by cogburnd02 4y ago
I see no mention anywhere of yaft. Not an in-kernel framebuffer console, but one worth knowing about nonetheless, because it offers features like sixel support which probably won’t be landing in kernel any time soon. [Also the title is ambi
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
This is funny in that despite it being hosted on textfiles.com it is an audio file... attempting to convince people to switch from binary formats to text formats. http://audio.textfiles.com/basement/maketheswitch.mp3
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
Near infrared??
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
> PTA Parent-Teacher Association??
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
Even more reason to not use it for anything.
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
Oh Holy God, not another one! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Trivial_brainfuck_substitution
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
> What did I just read? It can compile C into BF, too. So....that's a thing.
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
Interested parties should also check out awka ( https://github.com/noyesno/awka ) and ELVM (which can compile C into awk or sed, among various other things) ( https://github.com/shinh/elvm )
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
Just replying to the top comment in the hopes that this'll get seen: He's doing a keynote for linux.conf.au this year: https://old.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/riwm4x/brianwkernigha...
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
Yes, I believe the computer jargon term for an occurrence such as this is a 'typo.' :D
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
Interestingly, elemental phosphorus was originally isolated from urine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus#Discovery which is funny considering that economists and such are worried that mining phosphorus rock mig
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
eh, I suppose that's fair.
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
> significant early contributor to the C programming language source? http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?I=info.Brian_Kernighan says that > Kernighan has said that he had no part in the design of the C language
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
GNU ls also has options to automatically add quoting to its output.
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
this is one fugly text file: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-378593A1.txt
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
I've got both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS on 5 1/4 floppy. I can use ADTPro and I recently got (but haven't yet installed) an Uthernet ethernet card.
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by cogburnd02 5y ago
I'm looking for some kind of tiny ssh client I can squeeze into an Apple II. I'm pretty sure even dropbear is too big (I haven't actually tried yet, though so YMMV.) Are there any other smaller SSH clients out there?

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