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> While it did have some recreational value, it did not provide a product that people could use that would enrich their lives. Because providing a 'product' is the sole criterion f…

Right, exactly, I have to use WhatsApp because it's what everyone else uses, so leaving isn't even an option.

mdoc[1] is a significant improvement on the 'man' formatting language, and is already well supported. [1]: https://manpages.bsd.lv/mdoc.html

I suppose zebras are basically walking barcodes :)

The IRC gateway was the only thing that made slack even barely usable for me.

Easier said than done though, right?

The example Makefile in this article is contrived, here's an example of a simple Makefile: https://git.suckless.org/dmenu/tree/Makefile . I can find plenty of other such examples.

What happens if you want the child to inherit other fds? Or set other attributes such as the session, euid, egid etc? The elegance of fork() is in avoiding the complexity of requir…

My guess is the controversy around this issue makes it difficult to discuss. What I like about this article on various init systems is the relatively objective comparison of the di…

In several instances being honest has cost me socially. There doesn't seem to be a solution that doesn't ultimately result in rejection. Unless ofcourse you're willing to lie.

Some Were Meant for C: The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/research/papers/kell17some-p...

tee seems ripe for parallelisation

I just started using an app called Offtime. It will lock you out of certain apps for a period of time. I'm finding it to be extremely useful so far.