rlonstein

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by rlonstein 5mo ago
> nobody needs or wants a unix shell account in this day and age > I do. But I do not need just any Unix shell account, I need old and weird ones! I develop and maintain a portable utility (rlwrap) that is aimed at users of older soft
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by rlonstein 5mo ago
Finally. Someone else has mentioned this, I thought it was just me who I experiences the sensation of there being stray current on MacBook frames.
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by rlonstein 6mo ago
+1. I switched to using Nushell as my daily driver around mid-2023 (0.84.0?) and use it in preference to other interactive tools. I do keep at hand jq, yq, and mlr because I need to exchange stuff with colleagues who don't use Nu.
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by rlonstein 8mo ago
Name collision. I thought it might be the "Lix" fork of "Nix".
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by rlonstein 10mo ago
> I know there are industrial processes where heat is efficiently recycled, but I agree there are serious practical problems, particularly if the molten glass must be cooled quickly. My experience working with glass is that you _don&#x27
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by rlonstein 10mo ago
I thought Saints Row IV and Sleeping Dogs did this really well, to the point where I'd go around in the car just to hear all the radio stations.
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by rlonstein 10mo ago
> What they'd want to do is try to recover and reuse heat. In principle, there's no reason "new" heat has to be added each time they heat a batch of glass, if heat can be transferred from cooling glass back to the inp
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by rlonstein 1y ago
I don't have a dog in the fight, since I don't use Ventoy. Are you referring to this https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224#issuecomment-29... ?
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by rlonstein 1y ago
> Bosch I presume? > I would bet on that too. I have an older 300 series that is not WiFi and app enabled. It works great. I was suggesting "dumb" device models to someone and it was damned difficult to find which SKUs had m
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by rlonstein 2y ago
> Seasoned electronics guys can probably solder anything with a cigarette lighter and a scrap piece of metal This made me laugh. In college in the late 80's I repaired a roommate's not-quite vintage C64 fastloader cartridge wit
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by rlonstein 2y ago
I remember it as, "YOU FORTH LOVE IF HONK THEN"
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by rlonstein 2y ago
Apropos, I have one of my grandmother's boxes of recipes on index cards somewhere. She was a great cook but her notes are, aside from being in mixed German and English, nearly useless because the amounts are "some", "a b
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by rlonstein 2y ago
> Little Kitty Big City +1. This game was adorable and relaxing from beginning to end.
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by rlonstein 2y ago
What a depressing and limited view of reading.
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by rlonstein 2y ago
Whatever you think my opinion is of Perl you're probably wrong and the tone of your advocacy is kind of odd. Awk is older and as a part of POSIX the version found on unix-like environments will be (outside of extensions) compatible wit
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by rlonstein 2y ago
- Awk is defined in POSIX - Awk is on more systems than Perl - Awk has more implementations than Perl
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by rlonstein 2y ago
> granted, he'll probably fuck up his first two or three pretty good without haynes or chilton Given the assumptions, inaccuracies, and mistakes I've seen in some Haynes and Chilton manuals they'll probably fuck up with th
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by rlonstein 2y ago
https://min.io/
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by rlonstein 2y ago
> Would you write your own JSON parser, is it that easy in LISP? I only dally with Lisp(s) but probably not, I'd reach for a library in quicklisp. However, in Janet ( https://janet-lang.org/ ) there's a PEG parse
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by rlonstein 2y ago
Similar. Long time Leap user on a laptop moved to Tumbleweed and it's been good.
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by rlonstein 2y ago
A great-uncle had a dairy farm. We played with the magnets too.
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by rlonstein 2y ago
I don't know why that would be, but someone archived it: https://web.archive.org/web/20240321134120/https://spd-huntr...
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by rlonstein 2y ago
I started an opinionated and still incomplete guide for new players https://spd-huntress-guide.pages.dev/guide . I didn't put it out there and was going to take it down because I couldn't finish it let alone mainta
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by rlonstein 3y ago
I remember we were staying in a hotel Ibis in a cheap part of the city (I was still in grad school), not sure where now we went a few times. The hotels are now Travelodge, I think. We are avid walkers so we went down Rue Sherbrooke and angl
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by rlonstein 3y ago
When I was in grad school I accidentally wandered into the workshop for Montauk ( https://montauksofa.com/collections/sofa/montauk/ ) with my girlfriend. They were very polite and I took their card. A few years
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by rlonstein 3y ago
It does: https://shenlanguage.org/OSM/15min.html
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by rlonstein 3y ago
I'm not sure why you say that. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Cu... and https://emacsthemes.com/ exists.
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by rlonstein 3y ago
> Books only require the efforts of one person for a relatively short period of time Have you actually tried writing a book that you'd want to read? I think there are very few authors who just knock one out like you imply.
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by rlonstein 3y ago
Well, yes, and my straight razor is that sharp. Kitchen knives no and certainly not hatchets or axes.
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by rlonstein 3y ago
I don't disagree at all but this might be a problem with folk knowledge and terminology. I was taught to remove the burr or wire, you could feel it, and took it off with a steel or ceramic stick. My grandfather was a machinist and wood

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