invsblduck

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by invsblduck 11mo ago
> I'm a curmudgeonly old man fond of old tech, but I have still had a Wayland-only setup since early 2020 You must not be that curmudgeonly! I haven't tried Wayland yet, and so long as people are still arguing about it, I'
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by invsblduck 2y ago
> Were smartphones more like PCs, you could buy an iPhone and put Android on it, then use any of the iOS, Google Play, or Amazon stores to install apps. It's never been like that. What you wrote is fundamentally the same idea as: &q
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by invsblduck 5y ago
why is this so astounding to those commenting on twitter? because git doesn't artificially limit the line length? i've used ansi sequences in my zsh prompt for 20 years to make colors and move the cursor; it's just in-band as
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by invsblduck 6y ago
same. i don't raise on click. this is incredibly useful when a smaller window is in the foreground--and perhaps a window underneath is maximized--and i just need to select/copy something from the background real quick. the main ta
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by invsblduck 6y ago
> I bought a Mac now. I’m too old for the fight. I said the same a decade ago. As of last week, I'm back on X11... chipping away at configs for hours and hours and hours. But I have libnotify popups now. :D
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by invsblduck 6y ago
Thank you for the epic reference! Despite all the classic works in computer history, I've come to realize that TAOUP is honestly/possibly my favorite. ok, maybe tied for favorite...
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by invsblduck 6y ago
Most newer/younger people don't like or know Make; it's old, arcane software. It differentiates between TABs and Spaces because each one signifies a different thing to follow: Lines starting with TAB indicate that a _recipe_
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by invsblduck 6y ago
Thanks, i'll give it a try. :)
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by invsblduck 6y ago
After reading your reply to OP below, I agree we have a super similar path. Especially the beginning: > My first burnout was pure depletion of energy. I was young, passionate, and believed in doing the best work I could. I was addicted t
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by invsblduck 6y ago
i'm about 40 yrs old - been working in tech (with linux) since the late 90s. gave my life to it, lost my physical and mental health; burned out numerous times. can't stand this industry anymore. moral of the story: 99% of people s
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by invsblduck 7y ago
Not a history book, per se, but a great tour into the culture and philosophy of Unix: The Art of Unix Programming [1], by Eric Raymond. Chapter 2 is titled "History." You also have resources like The Unix Heritage Society [2], who
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by invsblduck 7y ago
Then there's this debacle I've never spent enough time getting to the bottom of... https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dhrcxw/james_g...
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by invsblduck 7y ago
That TeleVideo ad is amazing. Thank you!
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by invsblduck 7y ago
I wrote a lot of xml docbook in the early 2000s. I developed dozens editor macros and bindings to make it easier for myself, and I used xslt to generate other formats (mostly html). Seems like I haven't used anything but markdown, rst,
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by invsblduck 7y ago
You're right. I can do that. I didn't want to risk starting a flame war by admitting I have twelve main `ls' aliases (twelve unique argv incantations), and that I keep them portable across platforms. LOL. I started doing this
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by invsblduck 7y ago
Nice tips!! bat(1) is fantastic, wow. exa(1) seems neat, but the inconsiderate--and likely deliberate--lack of compatibility with ls(1) flags means I will never use it any time soon... I have decades' worth of aliases, scripts, and re
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by invsblduck 7y ago
Great read https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=1022
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by invsblduck 7y ago
pfSense [on Netgate appliance] for me.
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by invsblduck 8y ago
Not nitpicking. Useless Use of Cat is an old thing: http://catb.org/jargon/html/U/UUOC.html
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by invsblduck 8y ago
> Any given combination of pipe tools, there's a kind of random chance they'll actually work in the end or not. While this may be your experience, the mechanism of FIFO pipes in Unix (which is filehandles and buffers, basically
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by invsblduck 9y ago
+1. I also created an account to say, "Lots of Bash bugs." Thank you for the cool ideas!
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by invsblduck 9y ago
Lots of Bash bugs, wow.