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Personally I would like to see s http:// (http over ssh) as a valid protocol. Realistically, I know this would end up being just as bad and broken as every other web tech. However …

Glorious, Thank you kind soul for listening to my slightly raving rant. Now I feel several sorts of ashamed at missing what is kind of a core function. salutes

That vaguely touches (warning going off topic here, my apologies) my main problem with python. dict.keys() returns an iterator, this is all fine and good, very efficient I suppose,…

I will admit I would not know the difference between gitflow and a hole in the ground. But that diagram looks an awful lot like the workflow you tend to pick up when using fossil. …

It's easy to lose track of in the face of scene graph vector formats like svg but you have to remember canvas + javascript can be thought of as a procedural cad system, that is, th…

The mafia is just government by other means, and "The government" hates the competition.

Or as I like to call it, xkcd 1179 time

Marketing tends to follow a tick-tock model. New and improved! (we made the box smaller) 25% more! (box back to normal size, price goes up.)

I thought ceph had a reputation of easy to run, at least compared to it's rivals in the distributed storage space. (gluster, lustre, et al)

darkplaces quake does this. see sv_cullentities_trace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf94PbE-b9I

My understanding of Swiss neutrality (simplistic and very poor) is that the swiss mercenaries were too good and after they were finally defeated a ban on fielding mercenary compani…

Makes sense, depending on complexity my email sections tend to be. Executive summary: Summary: In general: Specifically: Now I feel all sorts of validated for being pedantic about …

My interpretation of the openbsd slides are that it acts as a sort of turing test. If you are the sort that is excessively bothered by our use of the comic-sans typeface. Then perh…

Well that's unfortunate, I tend to be rather militant about switching my syslog to something resembling rfc 3339. linux /etc/rsyslog.conf $ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_FileFor…

The "Does not resume interrupted operations" gripe confuses me because that is the main reason I reach for rsync, I have a large tree of files I need to be somewhere else and if th…

Openbsd has a code of conduct. It's been there a while. https://www.openbsd.org/mail.html only half joking

As far as I can tell there are three acpi stacks/interpreters Intel, This is the reference, most operating systems use this (linux, freebsd, macos) Microsoft Openbsd, yes the openb…

Mainly mechanical Top down you can put the the water in a small ice chest and the insulation will slow the freeze in the bulk. otherwise it freezes outside in That ice floats may p…

Making optical grade ice is not trivial. Not hard but I never did get good results. Start with good water. Freeze in a gradient(top down is easiest) half of your ice will still be …

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Scary, that is almost the exact code I came up with. The funny thing is balanced parens can be recognized with with a state machine it is just ugly. state_data = { '0p':{ '(':'1p',…

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