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There is a python3 variant in this thread [1], but if that is not "standard enough" (as someone else may have mentioned bash itself is not POSIX), this awk would also work { Warnin…

That Matrix visual was actually specifically mentioned as an inspiration in the video by the designer being linked to/discussed elsethread (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

FWIW, his screens looked a lot like OSX to me (which tracks with graphic design users in my experience). Anyway, he seems like a very nice fellow and I wish him and almost all T-sh…

Yeah. The Flask web-page prototype was indeed in Python. (The prequel shirt was Go.) { Also, it was my own Py version which I mostly did in case anyone wanted to actually run the t…

For anyone that cares, this is a slightly less stupid Python version: #!/usr/bin/env python3 from os import environ; E = environ.get from math import sin from time import sleep tex…

I watched that whole video link - thank you for that - and he doesn't really say. In fact, he spends much more time on the beige color harkening to computer case plastics of the 80…

That is a good list. While I'm sure many companies could be added, I only post to include DEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation whose `vt50/vt100/vtXX` id…

`procs display` (mentioned elsethread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788167 ) supports PSS via its %M format code. One issue with that relative to RSS is permissions. Histo…

A different usage paradigm from *top that I have come to like better is to do differential ps-like reports and system-wide (like vmstat) reports which leaves everything in your ter…

I don't really disagree much with what you said. My favored PLang Nim ( https://nim-lang.org/ -- it has both `ref` and `ptr` styles of pointer, one auto-managed, one manually manag…

For those new to the topic and less patient than "full conference" levels of attention, it doesn't cover things like UFCS/command-call, user-defined operators, or many other detail…

This may seem like a modern conflict, but what I like about your post is its more general human cognitive orientation. Since to each new generation everything is new, people tend t…

You can see all the details at: https://github.com/mratsim/constantine , but to answer your "how" question briefly here, something Nim shares with most (all?) "systems programming …

Ah. Good searching! So, maybe the 800,000 computers was "in DNS but un-pingable IP hosts" (dial-up was a big then then) or maybe included non-IP "networked" hosts or who knows.. An…

I am unfamiliar with the history of the piece. Many things are possible. He may have "mostly wrote" it in 1992 and then "polished it" for a 1994 Oita conference, but was somewhat s…

That's what I thought, too, but the top of the article says "For the Conference on HyperNetworking, Oita, Japan" which was in '94. So, I thought maybe "last summer" was internally …

I think this was written in 1994 for this conference https://seclists.org/interesting-people/1994/Mar/64 , but I'm not 100% sure. It refers to "last summer's coup in the Soviet Uni…

In fact, to support your point, it is perhaps questionable from first principles if 3 dimensions not 4 is right. Leaving out tetra chromats and the (partially) color blind, normal …

To support your point, it's also used in basically every shared library / DLL system. While usually used "for code", a "shared pure data library" has many applications. There are a…

:-) If it helps anyone explain the SkiFire point any better, I like to analogize it to an I-bar cursor vs. a block cursor for text entry. An I-bar is unambiguously "between charact…

As @SkiFire correctly observes[^1], off-by-1 problems are more fundamental than 0-based or 1-based indices, but the latter still vary enough that some kind of discrimination is nee…

I don't use D.. I find Nim helps with even lower ceremony. That said, it's hard for me to understand how "getting into gcc" is failure. The list of such PLangs is very short. Peopl…

This can very clearly be said about C++ as well, which may have started out as C With Classes but became very kitchen sinky. Most things that get used accrete a lot of features ove…

Yeah. I've been doing this for almost 10 years now. It's not APE/cosmopolitan (which also "kinda works" with Nim but has many lowest common denominator platform support issues, e.g…

DNA researchers developed a parallel format for gzip they call "bgzip" ( https://learngenomics.dev/docs/genomic-file-formats/compress... ) that makes data seem less trapped behind …