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by kbr2000 7mo ago
Reminds me mostly of LyX [0], although that one does use LaTeX and Tex; and targets a WYSIWYM approach [1] [0] https://www.lyx.org/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM
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by kbr2000 7mo ago
The article sums up quite well which principles are at play here. The fun part it's suggesting (without words), is either to pick it apart and see what each part does, play around with the constants in there, or start from scratch and
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by kbr2000 8mo ago
The delta-transfer algorithm [0] is about detecting which chunks of a file differ on source and target [1], and limiting the transfer to those chunks. The savings depend on how and where they differ, and ofcourse there's tradeoffs... Y
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by kbr2000 9mo ago
"It was able to squeak, but not to speak. Experts and professors wrestled with it in vain. It refused to transmit one intelligible sentence." [0] "A translation of Legat's article on Reis' invention was obtained by
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by kbr2000 9mo ago
Or rather: > You must have a filesystem, located on the /dev/sda4 device, mounted at /mnt/lfs. The /dev/sda4 device represents the fourth (primary) partition on the /dev/sda block device, which re
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by kbr2000 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousterhout's_dichotomy
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by kbr2000 10mo ago
https://www.ioccc.org/1991/brnstnd/index.html
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by kbr2000 11mo ago
Seems like a good fit for Expect. https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect
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by kbr2000 11mo ago
Ralph Griswold (also known for the Icon programming language [0]), started the On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics [1] at the time, a gem. [0] https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ [1] https
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by kbr2000 1y ago
batshit?
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by kbr2000 1y ago
lol, reminds me of this Monkey Dust one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2j_hXHEjX4
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by kbr2000 1y ago
It permits you to config more complicated backups more easily. You can inherit and override rules, which is handy if you need to do for example hundreds of similar style backups, with little exceptions. The same with include/exclude pa
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by kbr2000 1y ago
Dirvish [0] is worth looking at, light-weight and providing a good set of functionality (rotation, incremental backups, retention, pre/post scripts). It is a scripted wrapper around rsync [1] so you profit from all that functionality t
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by kbr2000 1y ago
LCAL[0]: The Moon Phase Calendar Program A PostScript program to visualize a calendar of moon phases (skip down to "LCAL PostScript Calendar Examples" for just that). Did some nice PS prints recently for the next 10 years, adapted
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by kbr2000 2y ago
Cool indeed. A spin on it (also using POV-Ray), but using a photo (texture on an object) and animated (rotating that object, the texture, or the mirrors -- I forgot) in [0] and [1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJaBsp
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by kbr2000 2y ago
Delay/disruption tolerant networking (DTN) seeks to address these kind of problems, using alternative techniques and protocols: store-and-forward, Bundle protocols and Licklider Transmission Protocol. Interesting stuff, enjoy!
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by kbr2000 3y ago
Awk: Aho, Weinberger & Kernighan [0] Tcl: (an embeddable) Tool Command Language [1] Forth: FOURTH as in "4th generation software", "successor to 3rd generation compile-link-go languages", or "software for 4rd ge
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by kbr2000 3y ago
There's another guide [0] for wire wrap technique (solderless, cold welded connections to square posts [1]). Used extensively in telephony switching/patching in the past, as well as digital circuit construction like computers. Qui
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by kbr2000 4y ago
Well done! For those interested: a predecessor called the "Jesusonic" was once made by Justin Frankel (of Winamp and REAPER fame): https://www.cockos.com/jsfx/ https://wiki.cockos.com/wiki&#x2
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by kbr2000 4y ago
The exmh E-mail client frontend used this: https://rand-mh.sourceforge.io/book/exmh/thexmdi.html
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by kbr2000 4y ago
I came up with: gawk 'BEGIN {IGNORECASE=1} ((length($1) == 6) && /^[a-fois]+$/) {gsub(/o/,0);gsub(/i/,1);gsub(/s/,5); print toupper("#"$1)}' /usr/share/d
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by kbr2000 4y ago
The title lured me into thinking it would be another Project Orion [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls... ] :)
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by kbr2000 4y ago
Indeed, bsd-games were not mentioned. Here's a list: https://github.com/msharov/bsd-games There was Sleuth also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleuth_(video_game) Personally I enjoyed IF like
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by kbr2000 5y ago
Great, thanks for the info! I used Tgif for exactly that, designing SNMP monitoring with network maps/dashboard like pages. Forgot exactly which combinations I implemented, but it envolved Tgif, Tkined [0], Scotty [1], Big Brother [2]
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by kbr2000 5y ago
Well found ;) I remember crossing this multiple times since the 90s while looking for Tgif-related info, but always in Japanese I think... and every time with marvel for his technique applied with both excellent software.
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by kbr2000 5y ago
Don Hopkins, NeWS, Tcl/Tk, ...! Excellent ideas all around. http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/
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by kbr2000 5y ago
Tgif [0] is interesting too, Prolog-based, with Hyper-Structured-Graphics [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tgif_(program) [1] http://bourbon.usc.edu/tgif/hgviewer.html
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by kbr2000 5y ago
Not really a joke, rather a term we didn't know yet :) [0] https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Eric_W._Schwartz [1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yiff
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by kbr2000 5y ago
The 'Graphics Programming in Icon' book is also a gem (available for free here [0]). It's written in the same (readable) form and style as the other books, and uses the added power of Icon to demonstrate how quick you can get
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by kbr2000 5y ago
Check Lazarus [0] for Free Pascal [1]. Another viable option would be Visual Tcl [2] for Tcl/Tk [3]. Given the event-based nature of Tcl and Tk, I find it matches well for a methodology like VB provided. And it's far from the only

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