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It was self-assessed: > When we say ‘vigorous’ we mean activities that make you sweat, increase your heart rate or increase your breathing. Please think about vigorous activities t…

It's small compared to the size of the card, sure, but not small for typical modern lithography techniques.

As you noted, I said that the problems stems from sudo not setting PWD, hence `sudo make` doesn't inherit PWD. I'm not calling that a bug in sudo, but it was a bug in the specific …

I mostly agree (I was working with sudo make install in order to package neatroff). However, most of the build scripts which generate binary packages for distros etc use `make inst…

I would say it is a make bug in that POSIX make has no good way to get PWD. Not necessarily a bug even, but an annoyance.

Yes, the official Lua implementation is written in a very widely supported subset of C, so is probably one of the most portable languages along with C. Lua might well be a bit more…

The separate tools you're probably thinking of are `pkgconf` and `pkg-config`.

Everyone and their dog can compile C, and the initial purpose of this project was to get something working on Windows. As you say, this is a relatively uncomplicated program, and t…

There is now a proposal to add CURDIR to POSIX: https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1626

Reminds me of these ( https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/about.html ) digital garden style personal websites.

Which they're also not trying to do. It's just a cool project, shared for those that want to use it.

https://wiby.me

Except, of course, that they're not selling anything.