dim13

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by dim13 5d ago
Nerdtree is such a waste of screen real estate. I prefer netrw.
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by dim13 11d ago
Trowed in EICAR test "virus" (a valid DOS executable) -- all decompilers just "segfaulted". https://www.eicar.org/download-anti-malware-testfile/
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by dim13 2mo ago
> Vim users seem often quite happy with the vim emulation they get Not at all. Never seen any vi-emulation, which wasn't totally broken.
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by dim13 2mo ago
Fails "car wash" test miserably. Ask it: > I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? Ref: https://opper.ai/blog/car-wash-test
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by dim13 5mo ago
Had same idea some time ago: https://imgur.com/a/11StYkd ;)
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by dim13 5mo ago
Neither Somehow. German 29%, Autistic 22% ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by dim13 6mo ago
"OpenBSD does not want to attract GNU newbies." misc@ And that's IMHO is a good thing.
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by dim13 8mo ago
Finally I see some people around. Was pretty lonely, as it launched.
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by dim13 9mo ago
Glad to have played with it a bit before it got Slashdotted. ;)
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by dim13 9mo ago
It is no longer the same. It went from somewhat exclusive dining experience to full blown nuclear junk food chain vibe. I've stopped attending it about 10 years ago. I rather prefer to watch some few interesting topics online, and skip
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by dim13 9mo ago
Reminded me of GNU Terry Pratchett[1]. [1]: http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/
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by dim13 9mo ago
Also: Banana - Although not technically living, it does make for a good size comparison.
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by dim13 10mo ago
To be honest, all I see is https://xkcd.com/927/ All config formats are bad. You either don't need all the features at all, except key:value. Or you quickly run into weird limitations and quirks. What I rather lik
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by dim13 11mo ago
I've never started. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And also not going to. I see enough crap, colleges produce, to never touch this pile of dung.
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by dim13 1y ago
… since 1994
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by dim13 1y ago
Read most of the comment, was hesitated. Then thought "it can't be that bad". Ok, it is that bad. I absolutely hate extra round corners and extra margin in the windows. Sigh.
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by dim13 1y ago
I usually take it even a step further by skipping useless "hello". Instead of "Hello, did you notice, that db is down? Can you check it please?" Just terse "DB seems to be down. Please check it."
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by dim13 1y ago
Hilarious, how an old joke from 2003 is still relevant today. Please, please, please don't execute it. It will try to wipe you disk. cat "test... test... test..." | perl -e '$??s:;s:s;;$?::s;;=]=>%-{<-|}<&
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by dim13 2y ago
Little known, but there is already calendar(1) [1] in OpenBSD with much more sane format. [1]: https://man.openbsd.org/calendar.1
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by dim13 2y ago
Grandfather of Protobuf is ASN.1
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by dim13 2y ago
Some more: Quick'n'dirty: .model small .code org 100h start: int 19h ; Bootstrap loader end start More "correct": .model small .code org 100h start:
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by dim13 2y ago
I once recorded an half-hour drive and uploaded it to YT as private video for my own convenience. Got immediately a copyright claim about radio playing some music in the background.
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by dim13 2y ago
> with zero ads the internet would be a smaller, darker place Yes, please! Once a while I turn off ad-blocker to remind myself how bad it got. And OMG! It is bad, Bad, BAD! Unusable. Sometimes is less more.
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by dim13 2y ago
It did not digest https://github.com/torvalds/linux ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by dim13 2y ago
Let us play a recursive game. Will it loop? > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris
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by dim13 2y ago
Funny, 174 by me too.
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by dim13 2y ago
Anybody remembers Geek Code? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code
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by dim13 2y ago
That's also, what's article is about. > This is one reason why hard-buttons are so effective in old-school cars. They all use these same standard icons so it’s easier for new users to scan across them and find the one you want
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by dim13 2y ago
Well, I did it 11 years ago. There is little magic. Boot linux rescue system. Fire qemu. Go with auto-install. Even with raid setup if you want to. Done. The only tweak -- auto-detection of swap space, as it is derived from RAM available an
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by dim13 2y ago
A simplest alias `dl='curl -O'` just does the same for me.

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