bch · HackerLangs

28 分前議論

Good catch. We've run into a problem somewhere along this journey of comparing the compression strength of a snails tooth to the tensile strength of a spiders web.

bch

4 時間前議論

Good read, and I think a sort of living mindset, or “process, not product”, though seems to be follow-on/reaction to Perl’s TMTOWTDI (Tim Toadie)[0], and Python’s response(“There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it”)[1].

[0] https://perl.fandom.com/wiki/TIMTOWTDI

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_of_Python#Principles

bch

5 時間前議論

Then your manager asks you to wrap it in a GUI so your coworkers can use it, and the cycle is complete.

bch

5 時間前議論

> when you are already in the terminal, launching a TUI app is just faster than switching to a GUI window. So it's still about "terminal or not" for me

I’m principally a terminal person too, but my first thought was tmux cut/paste buffer (to transfer data whether TUI or CLI), not speed-of-launch.

bch

8 時間前議論

That's why we use the %fill of an Olympic Sized Pool - doesn't matter from what continent the field comes, they fill the pool equally.

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昨日議論

If people would just take the time to actually learn and appreciate the Analytical Engine they could bypass _all_ that noise...

bch

一昨日議論

If they've got billions to rent out, they're not using it...

bch

3 日前議論

What a vector (no pun intended) for malware or other computation…

bch

7 日前議論

Where LaTeX[0] is the collection of Lamports macros over Knuths[1] TeX[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX

bch

8 日前議論

> stuck to SQLite instead

Different level of abstraction. I don’t think it’s highlighted enough either - this latest (1.0) and the previous 0.9.x are mutually incompatible, requiring essentially a dump/restore. It is mentioned (I forget which file ottofmh), but should be a

*HIGHLIGHT* in the CHANGES.

bch

18 日前議論

Sounds like a trip to the hospital.

bch

21 日前議論

^-- this comment was typed on a computer, similar to the computers the worlds most advanced AI is developed on, so you know he knows what he's talking about.

bch

22 日前議論

Notable users: GNU HURD Project (Shipping any day now).

bch

28 日前議論

Everybody else is a fungible cog.

TFA is a good little read - couple things come to mind

  1) Knoll’s Law [0][1]

  2) The ways I feel when I’m working on a hard problem in an area of my expertise and  some person starts in with “Why don’t you just…”. Enough people have come to me in such a situation with such a comment that I think it mostly translates as a sort of shibboleth for “I have no real idea what I’m talking about.” Now to find out if this is a teachable moment, if I have to maintain a sense of humour, or find out if I’m actually one of the days lucky 10,000.[2]

[0] https://effectiviology.com/knolls-law/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Knoll

[2] https://xkcd.com/1053/

bch

29 日前議論

Nice. I like it. Advanced history mgmt in between commits is compelling.

bch

29 日前議論

> For me, it'd be primarily having more than one undo

Do you mean infinite undo? nvi has that. I'm not sure what you mean "set up as a tree" wrt undo, but i'll look into it. I think of nvi's undo as linear - I can 'u' to "undo" and implicitly set my "undo direction" "backward in time" (as one would expect). If I want to "undo, even more", '.' (dot, period) to "do that last command again" is what I'll do. If I want to "undo an undo", 'u'. That has the effect of moving the "undo direction" back towards the state of the buffer we had at the beginning of our discussion here.

...and, now I see your edit ;)

^[u..........:wq

bch

29 日前議論

> can’t remember ever meeting anyone who chose vi over vim

Pleased to meet you.

Most of my console dev time is spent in *BSD, where nvi is where I land. I find the the default creature-features of vim annoying, so I end up having to configure it to be a bit more quiet, and I don't know anything so compelling about it (a vi clone (to an extreme, acknowledged)) that nvi isn't a good enough place to be. I have vim installed, but it's not my go-to.

bch

先月議論

"The performance is off the chart!" <basic chart is displayed to illustrate(?) the point>

More seriously, obviously a ton of work in an incredibly competitive space, and an incredible machine (without getting into competitive comparisons/minutiae). Was watching a techtechpotato[0] quick post pre-launch about "why is this even being tried?", which was also interesting. What an age we live in.

[0] https://youtu.be/JdB722MK380?si=GnLAYqT9ZecMhWCS

bch

2 か月前議論

> tray screen is very nice

If you're talking about the screen on the arm w grab handles, I'd say it looks very practical, but looks like a design for a public space - like an accessible screen for buying tickets in a fairground.

bch

2 か月前議論

Pardon the pedantry, but I the current abbreviation of the price ("Shutterstock to pay $35M") should be "$35MM".

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