erlkonig

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by erlkonig 21d ago
Since when does Microsoft owning a thing actually improve that thing?
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by erlkonig 3mo ago
Someone should send this doc to papajohns.com, which has overcomplicated their website to the point it doesn't even work in Firefox anymore.
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by erlkonig 4mo ago
Almost impossible, it depends on how fast they're being generated and the precision of the timestamp. The real problem is two years later when someone finds and removes that usleep(10000); /* sleep 10 µs */ that was the hard
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by erlkonig 4mo ago
I keep telling the dev teams I'm on that with enough data points, all those random numbers will (probably) eventually collide, and *then* we'll see how robust their software really is. At least your database flagged it, and hopef
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by erlkonig 5mo ago
I really hate it when the recommended install method is curl-ing some script directly into a shell, often as root. Especially since it's pretty well known that the remote end can tell whether it's going to a script or a file. Qua
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by erlkonig 5mo ago
GoDaddy proved themselves corrupt forever ago, grabbing domains their customers didn't pay for in time and then auctioning them back to those customers for massive markups. There's a litany of terrible things they've done. M
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by erlkonig 7mo ago
This is happening in Colorado too, meaning it could be part of a national push: Colorado Senate Bill "26-051" The actual bill and links to its two sponsors Matt Ball and Amy Paschal. https://leg.colorado.gov/b
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by erlkonig 8mo ago
While XML was imperfect from overcomplication, JSON is imperfect by falling short of even basic database use, and somehow despite its alleged simplicity it manages to be unstandardized almost as badly as Markdown. JSON and YAML both fail t
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by erlkonig 8mo ago
XDG doesn't handle complex environments, especially not heterogeneous computing environments. Something long the core strength of Unix is acknowledged by XDG and then left utterly unaddressed. Without this, the "standard" is
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by erlkonig 8mo ago
A while ago, I just wrote a filter to be able to paste markdown into a <name>.smd file, and an Apache filter to autoprocess them much like any other filter (and a <named>.smd.meta for title info and some other metadata). This ma
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by erlkonig 8mo ago
I just hate that (1) you can't nest anything into a table (2) it's different everywhere. Restructured Text is much more capable, and yet here we are, still using Markdown. My markdown pages often also have HTML in them, I mainly u
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by erlkonig 9mo ago
Fine advice overall. Except: Don't put suffixes on command names. Don't. It's a DOS thing that has no meaning in Unix. It confuses users. It breaks hiding implementation details. It encourages users to do the wrong thing.
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by erlkonig 10mo ago
The general movement of UI paradigm has been from one tech to the next with a focus on backwards compat. Almost amusingly so at times, but this is how all the earlier users and use cases can most easily progress. E.g. * hollerith cards an
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by erlkonig 1y ago
I can't really enjoy an article on CSS where the third thing he does is to override the USER'S PREFERRED FONT SIZE. Arrogant. But not as bad as those jerks that use smaller and smaller, progressively lower contrast text as the act
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by erlkonig 1y ago
<tirade style="justified"> F*k systemd, and systemd-homed along with it. Their docs don't even mention homes mounted over NFS, or LDAP managed users. This is the same sort of pathetically marginal garbage that damns Sn
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by erlkonig 1y ago
This whole issue just seems so pathetic. PostScript and DPS, notably NeWS, have device-independent scaling from the outset - you can completely omit even mentioning pixels, even though they're 2D. Wayland braying on about scalabilit
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by erlkonig 2y ago
Using abort() every time malloc and kin fail isn't really satisfying anything except the idea that the program should crash before showing incorrect results. While the document itself is pretty good otherwise, this philosophical failin
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by erlkonig 2y ago
Most of both this article and the discussion is covering the simple case of home on a local hard drive, rather than the more interesting real-world situations with network-mounted home directories and multiple different HW/OS architect
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by erlkonig 3y ago
Putting any personally important email account in the hands of some huge corporate provider is pretty much always a recipe for eventual problems. Although big companies also have some leeway to steal domains (and the associated email addres
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by erlkonig 3y ago
However, that Apache situation, multithreading *like* things together (request handling), is a more reasonable act than say, turning all of PostgreSQL into a monolithic process. PostgreSQL is a much more heterogeneous system than Apache, w
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by erlkonig 3y ago
You can usually find developers interested in any fashionable approach to a problem. Change is fine. What improvement, specifically, though? Adding multithreading is not a functional improvement in and of itself, but more the opposite. M
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by erlkonig 3y ago
[I wrote this mostly imagining the idea was about converting the entire Postgresql service to a single monolithic process. I'm not a fan so far. If is actually around coalescing like processes down to a single multithreaded process,
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by erlkonig 3y ago
Each of your 3 foundational knowledge points will never be used by certain branches of computing. There are scenarios where none of them will be used, so it's hard to truly call them foundational. Filesystems are a key discipline you
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by erlkonig 4y ago
The big clue here, is that if we allow generated content to be copyrighted, then some asshat company will just generate All The Things (within, say, a given space) and copyright them (likewise for trademarks and patents, which could be much
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by erlkonig 4y ago
Gitlab has been cursed by a marketing team that seemingly just can't imagine having mixed licensing levels. At a side effect, organizations that would adopt them at the low (free) tier (or just above) for the whole company, a higher
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by erlkonig 4y ago
At more centrally-administered sites, a user might not even have the ability to change an X server option. The idea of making a toggle via xset sort-of makes sense, but seriously, isn't the idea generally that you trust the apps you&#
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by erlkonig 4y ago
It seems the 2015 Zuck is limited by what's familiar to him and utterly failing to see the potential of new technology. To him, VR/AR is just a realm in which to deploy the same apps, a market to capture, annex Unity to protect t
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by erlkonig 4y ago
My theory is that this same Windows experience is also how so many joined the command-with-filename-extension cargo cult. But unix and windows work differently, and the approach does NOT port.
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by erlkonig 4y ago
No, this is pretty meaningless unless sourcing in function.sh or something. If your script is short lived and doesn't have a work area (read/writing files), don't bother with cd. If it's long lived, the best default wo
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by erlkonig 4y ago
echo has long been unreliable. Even the built-in echo in the shells were unreliable in SunOS, because the shell would look at the binaries in your PATH and try to figure out whether to emulate the BSD vs SysV (IIRC) version of echo and th

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