liw

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by liw 10y ago
I disagree. They're a warning and an error message, and should go to stderr. It may _also_ be useful to show them on the terminal, in case the user would like to see them now, and has redirected stderr somewhere other than the terminal
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by liw 10y ago
Error and warning messages are not status or progress messages, at least not in the context of this discussions, which is that a long-running computation should indicate to the user that it's doing something.
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by liw 10y ago
Stderr should only get error messages, and, arguably, warning messages. It shouldn't get status and progress messages. Those should go to /dev/tty, and the program should be gracefully quiet if run without a terminal, e.g., f
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by liw 10y ago
It still seems to be OK to bring Note 7s on airplanes. Not bottles of water, though, that's too dangerous.
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by liw 10y ago
Yes, absolutely. I, for example, am one, though I admit I was born only after humanity has visited the Moon. Still, more than 16 years ago.
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by liw 10y ago
Aliases are per shell process. You need to reload your .bashrc (or whatever file you define aliases in) in every shell. Shell scripts are instantly available in all shell instances. Also, shell scripts can be invoked by shell scripts, which
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by liw 10y ago
Making static websites for over a decade, now. (Can make user-editable wikis as well.)
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Down the rabbit hole (BMP parser bug hunting using AFL)(vincentsanders.blogspot.com)
9 points by liw 10y ago|0 comments
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by liw 10y ago
The Economist is following mainstream journalism in general, then.
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by liw 10y ago
Does pointing that out advance the discussion in a useful way? Does it help having a constructive debate? Does it make anyone's day or life better? Are you just posting in the hope of getting some upvotes for making a funny, snarky sho
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by liw 10y ago
Babies need to be taught how to use the nipple. Not intuitive.
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by liw 10y ago
You run it in such a way that the paths are identical. For example, by using the -r option. $ mkdir foo $ echo foo > foo/bar $ cp -a foo foo2 $ summain -r foo > foo.summain $ summain -r foo2 > foo2.summain $ diff foo*.summain
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by liw 10y ago
Since I develop backup software, this is a problem I needed to solve (e.g., for verifying that restore works). So I wrote a tool: http://liw.fi/summain/ It produces output that is meant to be usefully diffable.
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by liw 10y ago
The difference between free software and open source isn't copyleft. Both free software and open source embrace copyleft. From your writing I deduce you are of the opinion that open source is more or less equivalent to permissive licen
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by liw 10y ago
I've followed, and sometimes participated in, variations of this discussion since 1989. I wrote up an article about this topic on the Yakking blog, recently: http://yakking.branchable.com/posts/comparative-freeness
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ChaosKey v1.0 Released – USB Attached True Random Number Generator(keithp.com)
3 points by liw 10y ago|0 comments
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by liw 10y ago
The Unix command /bin/true (do nothing, exit with code zero) can be implemented as an empty file. When it's run, the kernel doesn't recognize it as binary code, so it gives it to /bin/sh to run. There's at
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by liw 10y ago
I have been keeping a journal in a private ikiwiki instance for several years now. Basically, I set up an ikiwiki blog that generates a static website, served by Apache over localhost. Files are in markdown, and kept in git. I do searches v
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by liw 10y ago
That seems like a very old version to review.
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by liw 10y ago
I don't recognise the Nautilus I use from the screenshot or the description. For example, I have a completely different sidebar and I have no problem having multiple tabs in a window.
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by liw 10y ago
http://ikiwiki.info/ supports comments. There are several variants of "static website": * Site is generated by its author, and won't change until author changes and re-generates it. * Site generates content w
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by liw 10y ago
I doubt joeyh wants to add tools to moreutils that already exist as separate projects of their own.
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by liw 10y ago
Here's another tiny browser: http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ At a previous job, we built and installed and ran a system test with that faster than Firefox unpacked the source tarball. OTOH, it's quite limited, and
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by liw 10y ago
It tells you that your file is corrupted. You can then restore from backups, re-download, or take some other corrective action, such as delete the file, reboot the machine, re-install the operating system, or play Quake 2 to test your RAM a
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by liw 10y ago
SSH is originally from Finland. Unlike GPG, it's not an implementation of a pre-existing spec, so it might make a somewhat better example.
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by liw 10y ago
The BSD license allows the software to be made non-free. The GPL doesn't. To me, this means the GPL wins on freedom. Not everyone agrees. Hence, subjective interpretation. Saying otherwise is just trolling.
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by liw 10y ago
As a Debian developer I was greatly surprised when I read on Ars Technica that Debian had chosen to support snaps.
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by liw 10y ago
If landlords and letting agents and real-estate agents do this, should not tenants do it too? Could we have a service where a tenant gets a "creepiness report" on a potential landlord/agent? Actually, probably better not. Esc
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by liw 10y ago
Come to think of it, a variant of it is still packaged in Debian, package is called "arc". Incidentally, for anyone choosing a name, the namecheck program from the Debian devscripts package is handy for checking if a particular na
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by liw 10y ago
Not only that, there's a historical program called Arc that is also a file archiver/compressor. It led to PKZIP.

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