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Maybe Greenspun's Tenth Rule applies to anything "common".

> If you're considering doing anything serious with Unix, absolutely you should use Linux. No question. Don't waste your time with any BSDs. Can you expand on that?

Of course you're correct re: laptop and aux kb - I was thinking of "seat" (and multiple seats) being: "Wayland seat refers to one 'seat' at which a user sits and operates the compu…

> It's actually a lot more work than you'd think to support this... Like: how would one support multiple keyboards? Is there an experimental or logical model for that?

I don't know what qualifies as "mainstream media" here, but I feel various public broadcasters have served me well over the years: CBC[0] in Canada, BBC[1] in United Kingdom, NPR[2…

.tk[0] (e.g. a component of a Tcl/Tk[1] (or perhaps Perl/Tk, or Python/Tkinter) belongs to Tokelau[2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tk [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_(s…

> you can't turn a river around with a stick Somebody forgot to tell this[0] guy. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi

You can appreciate the world and still do Hard Work to make it better - definitely not mutually exclusive. Be unreasonable. Be Progressive. Temper it all with Desiderata[0], since …

I love the social/cultural aspects of our engineering discipline. > I always thought of that as “yak-shaving,” or “bikeshedding.” I think of yak-shaving as ending up (by lack of di…

> “let's not make perfect the enemy of good." Nuanced, but I’ve heard “don’t let perfection be the enemy of completion ”, which is real in the cases of not shipping because one is …

I can't replicate atm, but I now think it had to do w scientific notation, not octal - so "1e234..." into a text column. And istr "strict" solving my problem, but...

I'll see if i can find the case - my description was a bit hand-wavy because it was a while ago, and just drawing on memory -- not that your explanation couldn't be true, but I tho…

I had a UUID (partly?) mis-converted to a number if the UUID started w (from memory) something like 08123… which was parsed as octal. Confusing, annoying, fixed w “strict” and a co…

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.

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 s…

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

> 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 p…

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.

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

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

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

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.wik…

> 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, requiri…

Sounds like a trip to the hospital.