vletrmx

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by vletrmx 2y ago
> While it did have some recreational value, it did not provide a product that people could use that would enrich their lives. Because providing a 'product' is the sole criterion for success? The author is missing the point and
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by vletrmx 6y ago
Right, exactly, I have to use WhatsApp because it's what everyone else uses, so leaving isn't even an option.
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by vletrmx 6y ago
mdoc[1] is a significant improvement on the 'man' formatting language, and is already well supported. [1]: https://manpages.bsd.lv/mdoc.html
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by vletrmx 7y ago
I suppose zebras are basically walking barcodes :)
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by vletrmx 9y ago
The IRC gateway was the only thing that made slack even barely usable for me.
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Understanding strict aliasing (2006)(cellperformance.beyond3d.com)
1 points by vletrmx 9y ago|0 comments
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by vletrmx 9y ago
Easier said than done though, right?
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by vletrmx 9y ago
The example Makefile in this article is contrived, here's an example of a simple Makefile: https://git.suckless.org/dmenu/tree/Makefile . I can find plenty of other such examples.
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by vletrmx 9y ago
What happens if you want the child to inherit other fds? Or set other attributes such as the session, euid, egid etc? The elegance of fork() is in avoiding the complexity of requiring every attribute of the process to be explicitly stated i
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by vletrmx 9y ago
My guess is the controversy around this issue makes it difficult to discuss. What I like about this article on various init systems is the relatively objective comparison of the different features and approaches of previous inits.
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A history of modern init systems (2015)(blog.darknedgy.net)
3 points by vletrmx 9y ago|3 comments
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by vletrmx 9y ago
In several instances being honest has cost me socially. There doesn't seem to be a solution that doesn't ultimately result in rejection. Unless ofcourse you're willing to lie.
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A history of S_IFMT(lubutu.com)
94 points by vletrmx 9y ago|0 comments
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by vletrmx 9y ago
Some Were Meant for C: The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/research/papers/kell17some-p...
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The Unix Tree(minnie.tuhs.org)
3 points by vletrmx 9y ago|0 comments
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by vletrmx 9y ago
tee seems ripe for parallelisation
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A history of S_IFMT(lubutu.com)
1 points by vletrmx 9y ago|0 comments
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by vletrmx 9y ago
I just started using an app called Offtime. It will lock you out of certain apps for a period of time. I'm finding it to be extremely useful so far.
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Theft: Property-Based Testing for C(spin.atomicobject.com)
8 points by vletrmx 9y ago|0 comments
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Theft: Property-Based Testing for C(spin.atomicobject.com)
3 points by vletrmx 9y ago|0 comments
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Yarn: Behaviour Driven Development in Bash(blog.liw.fi)
1 points by vletrmx 9y ago|0 comments
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Theft: Property-Based Testing for C(spin.atomicobject.com)
3 points by vletrmx 9y ago|0 comments
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by vletrmx 9y ago
Check out http://git.liw.fi/ick2/
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Argp, for getopt users(yakking.branchable.com)
2 points by vletrmx 9y ago|0 comments
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by vletrmx 9y ago
This is an impressively aware article. I do find myself wondering though, whether all this should be a requirement for entering the software industry. Why is it that software rarely seems to offer apprenticeships like other engineering disc
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by vletrmx 9y ago
When you say thinking of a career change. Do you mean quitting the course of study you are currently on? If so can I suggest sticking with it till you graduate, then if you still want to pursue medicine the door is still open to you, but yo
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How difficult is it to preserve extended attributes when moving a file?(yakking.branchable.com)
4 points by vletrmx 9y ago|0 comments
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by vletrmx 9y ago
https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/
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by vletrmx 9y ago
Yes I recommend the nix pills they are really awesome and how I learned Nix!
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What is Nix and why you should try it(yakking.branchable.com)
461 points by vletrmx 9y ago|193 comments

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