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> nobody needs or wants a unix shell account in this day and age > I do. But I do not need just any Unix shell account, I need old and weird ones! I develop and maintain a portable…

Finally. Someone else has mentioned this, I thought it was just me who I experiences the sensation of there being stray current on MacBook frames.

+1. I switched to using Nushell as my daily driver around mid-2023 (0.84.0?) and use it in preference to other interactive tools. I do keep at hand jq, yq, and mlr because I need t…

Name collision. I thought it might be the "Lix" fork of "Nix".

> I know there are industrial processes where heat is efficiently recycled, but I agree there are serious practical problems, particularly if the molten glass must be cooled quickl…

I thought Saints Row IV and Sleeping Dogs did this really well, to the point where I'd go around in the car just to hear all the radio stations.

> What they'd want to do is try to recover and reuse heat. In principle, there's no reason "new" heat has to be added each time they heat a batch of glass, if heat can be transferr…

I don't have a dog in the fight, since I don't use Ventoy. Are you referring to this https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224#issuecomment-29... ?

> Bosch I presume? > I would bet on that too. I have an older 300 series that is not WiFi and app enabled. It works great. I was suggesting "dumb" device models to someone and it w…

> Seasoned electronics guys can probably solder anything with a cigarette lighter and a scrap piece of metal This made me laugh. In college in the late 80's I repaired a roommate's…

I remember it as, "YOU FORTH LOVE IF HONK THEN"

Apropos, I have one of my grandmother's boxes of recipes on index cards somewhere. She was a great cook but her notes are, aside from being in mixed German and English, nearly usel…

> Little Kitty Big City +1. This game was adorable and relaxing from beginning to end.

What a depressing and limited view of reading.

Whatever you think my opinion is of Perl you're probably wrong and the tone of your advocacy is kind of odd. Awk is older and as a part of POSIX the version found on unix-like envi…

- Awk is defined in POSIX - Awk is on more systems than Perl - Awk has more implementations than Perl

> granted, he'll probably fuck up his first two or three pretty good without haynes or chilton Given the assumptions, inaccuracies, and mistakes I've seen in some Haynes and Chilto…

https://min.io/

> Would you write your own JSON parser, is it that easy in LISP? I only dally with Lisp(s) but probably not, I'd reach for a library in quicklisp. However, in Janet ( https://janet…

Similar. Long time Leap user on a laptop moved to Tumbleweed and it's been good.

A great-uncle had a dairy farm. We played with the magnets too.

I don't know why that would be, but someone archived it: https://web.archive.org/web/20240321134120/https://spd-huntr...

I started an opinionated and still incomplete guide for new players https://spd-huntress-guide.pages.dev/guide . I didn't put it out there and was going to take it down because I c…

I remember we were staying in a hotel Ibis in a cheap part of the city (I was still in grad school), not sure where now we went a few times. The hotels are now Travelodge, I think.…

When I was in grad school I accidentally wandered into the workshop for Montauk ( https://montauksofa.com/collections/sofa/montauk/ ) with my girlfriend. They were very polite and …