smorrow

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by smorrow 8mo ago
The most "research" thing I'm aware of 9front (since you're speaking in present tense) doing is that GEFS needed to work out a lot of things for itself that weren't in the Bε-tree proof-of-concept FS that came befor
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by smorrow 8mo ago
9P is a protocol, FUSE isn't. "Plan 9 praisers who don't actually use Plan 9" have a tendentious way of speaking, that's actually a lot like "AI slop", that Plan 9 users can instantly recognise. Telltale
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by smorrow 8mo ago
Dozer might be the most likely path to that. https://notgull.net/announcing-dozer
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by smorrow 8mo ago
Plan 9 does that, e.g. dial(2) to do the /net dance. ("2" here actually means something like "3plan9".)
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by smorrow 8mo ago
Why?
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by smorrow 8mo ago
What I meant by this is, if we had a decent X on Plan 9, we would actually use it, because right now remoting into other systems is just VNC...
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by smorrow 9mo ago
Is it written in C? If it is and you open-sourced it, someone might port it to Plan 9.
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by smorrow 2y ago
What do you mean "hold-over"? In NI we still say "first year" through "fifth year". Is that not done in Britain?
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by smorrow 3y ago
> monitors have grown Most people use laptops. (Or it's at least 50/50.)
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by smorrow 3y ago
Scwm had animations, which went in sometime before the ~2001 Usenix paper, due to a need for them. I don't think there's anything out of place about needful animations.
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by smorrow 3y ago
It's called dynamic window management, it's very popular, and that's without the animations showing you that something got moved.
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by smorrow 3y ago
1. You can't pick and choose your monitor like this on laptops. 2. I like my "window/s of interest" (the current "task") to be front and centre; I would like my window management when task switching both to do
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by smorrow 3y ago
Compiz had it: https://youtu.be/KGkodX89ouA?t=244
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by smorrow 3y ago
The first paragraph of https://archive.org/details/rc-shell/ So rc was made for Plan 9. The examples in that paper are definitely on tenth edition Unix, I think this would be because A fairly complete version o
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by smorrow 3y ago
> That's what we were trying to (and succeeded at being able to) avoid. What did he mean by this?
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by smorrow 3y ago
Some clues: The mk paper (and Unix man page) doesn't mention rc. Plan 9 existed since the mid-80s. This sentence in the Unix rc(1) sure makes it seem like rc was Plan 9-first: Environment entries for variables are kludgy for UNIX comp
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by smorrow 3y ago
Mash from Inferno https://inbox.vuxu.org/9fans/AANLkTikvTbqLwrxifri86cAEBS3wmk...
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by smorrow 3y ago
I've been seeing people, never ones who were actually there, make this claim in the last five to ten years. Rc was on tenth edition Unix. I've seen no evidence that it originated on Unix. The manual calls it the Plan 9 shell.
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by smorrow 3y ago
I did read the paper, I always thought it was theoretical too. Then I saw a video with maddog saying he witnessed Ken logging in using his backdoor.
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by smorrow 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka0kkwtO94I
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by smorrow 3y ago
I'm curious why private school? The usual reason people don't unschool is they haven't really heard of it ( or they've heard of it but believe some boomer conventional wisdom like muh socialisation or it's just
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by smorrow 4y ago
The fire conventional wisdom thing is just that: conventional wisdom. Debunked in this week's Tom Scott video.
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by smorrow 4y ago
And yet Plan 9 has a curl/wget equivalent, `hget`.
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by smorrow 4y ago
What I find interesting is that Plan 9's "who" did not . It's just ls /proc | sed '{grep out usernames}' | sort -u so it's pretty specific to whatever machine it runs on, as opposed to who's log
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by smorrow 5y ago
> Don Knuth's home page with custom colors is almost elaborately designed by academic standards Yeah, or Tanenbaum's.
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by smorrow 5y ago
> and the rest of the gang that I don't know the name of are part of such an incredible part of CS history. For CS-historic significance the ones I would add would be Aho and Steve Johnson.
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by smorrow 5y ago
Doug McIlroy: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/ Tom Duff (not a professor though): iq0.com
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by smorrow 5y ago
Bruce Ellis knows who wrote it , so he might also know the year.
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by smorrow 5y ago
You don't need to "put" people places - they do that by themselves (and better than you can centrally plan - I know you don't want to hear that). You don't need to make them go on the internet either. And apparent &
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by smorrow 5y ago
40 years? Try being anti-war under Woodrow Wilson. https://youtu.be/-gDvdRBiDvQ

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