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I just tried a tar file of a git clone of the linux kernel sources where the most recent commit is 72c395024dac5e215136cbff793455f065603b06 (early Feb of this year). zstd -19 got a slightly smaller size (3582930348…
The "scatter line plot" in TFA is all same shade of red on white with no year labels. This seems like a missed visualization opportunity. Using some kind of color scheme/gradient to represent the 1979-2026 years in a…
Don't forget head, tail, mount, strip, touch, etc. My GF when I was first learning these names was convinced the Unix principals did all this quite deliberately and "finger" was her headliner argument. Evidently, even…
I only said anything at all because the implication was not "missing minor nits about whatever your favorite proxy for 'will rely' is" but rather "nothing at all". FWIW, the keyword was "index" and the result was adix,…
I don't know what @winding means, exactly, but at best this seems highly misleading. Nim had babel packages by around 2010 (when it was called Nimrod and there was a Tower of Babel name scheme) and then nimble packages…
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 { Warning - this awk is 1000s of times faster…
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?id=48830326 )
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-shirt designers well. That bash script…
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 thing after such interest was expressed…
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 text = "♥PEACE♥FOR♥ALL" # The text to…
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 80s & 90s. The AI not handling the output…
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` ideas may be with us, in software, for…
`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. Historically, all procs could see the RSS…
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 terminal scrollback buffer as in:…
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 managed) even changed a while back it's `nim…
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 details, but for its incredibly short…
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 to forget that this kind of tension goes…
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 languages" is "easy" integration with…
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.. Anyway, I agree that your finds make it…
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 sloppy in internally updating everything…
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 even off by a couple years? I'm really…
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 Union" which may also date it. Maybe it…
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 human light perception is 1 kind of rod…
:-) 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 characters" while a block cursor is not. So,…
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I just tried a tar file of a git clone of the linux kernel sources where the most recent commit is 72c395024dac5e215136cbff793455f065603b06 (early Feb of this year). zstd -19 got a slightly smaller size (3582930348…
The "scatter line plot" in TFA is all same shade of red on white with no year labels. This seems like a missed visualization opportunity. Using some kind of color scheme/gradient to represent the 1979-2026 years in a…
Don't forget head, tail, mount, strip, touch, etc. My GF when I was first learning these names was convinced the Unix principals did all this quite deliberately and "finger" was her headliner argument. Evidently, even…
I only said anything at all because the implication was not "missing minor nits about whatever your favorite proxy for 'will rely' is" but rather "nothing at all". FWIW, the keyword was "index" and the result was adix,…
I don't know what @winding means, exactly, but at best this seems highly misleading. Nim had babel packages by around 2010 (when it was called Nimrod and there was a Tower of Babel name scheme) and then nimble packages…
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 { Warning - this awk is 1000s of times faster…
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?id=48830326 )
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-shirt designers well. That bash script…
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 thing after such interest was expressed…
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 text = "♥PEACE♥FOR♥ALL" # The text to…
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 80s & 90s. The AI not handling the output…
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` ideas may be with us, in software, for…
`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. Historically, all procs could see the RSS…
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 terminal scrollback buffer as in:…
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 managed) even changed a while back it's `nim…
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 details, but for its incredibly short…
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 to forget that this kind of tension goes…
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 languages" is "easy" integration with…
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.. Anyway, I agree that your finds make it…
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 sloppy in internally updating everything…
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 even off by a couple years? I'm really…
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 Union" which may also date it. Maybe it…
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 human light perception is 1 kind of rod…
:-) 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 characters" while a block cursor is not. So,…