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JNRowe
7,426karma·1,207submissions·February 3, 2014
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Yep deadlocks, you're correct. From the paper: "Modern Unix systems offer named pipes, also known as fifos, which can be used to hand-craft arbitrary process communication topologies. Howev…
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For people -- admittedly, like me -- who have a strong knee-jerk reaction to GoboLinux's design the twenty year old "I am not clueless"¹ document contains a fair amount of interesting…
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General point about comfort noted, but they don't do the same thing. $^path(N) is an equivalent to your perl expression. The snippet throwaway84846 posted also removes duplicates and collapses s…
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If you run "apt source" for the package you'll see it - like lots of other packages - point you to the git repository when the packaging is maintained in a public git repository. The V…
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I wholeheartedly recommend How Parliament Works¹ for people who want a deep dive on these points. It is nowhere near as dry as you'd imagine for a five hundred page book about parliament. While …
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dmr's reference manual¹ used it, see section 9.10. Matt Dillon's DICE would have been popular on the Amiga then, and it looks like it also favored parens. The latest tarball of DICE² is pre…
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Many people have given their "why," but I'll give another "how". castget¹ is a simple tool that does exactly what you want, just add a feed URL and it pulls all the episodes. …
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There is a fun SDL remake¹, packages available in Debian and a few other distributions too. ¹ https://gitlab.com/roever/toppler/ …
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Wow, that looks great! The restore interface is really clean, I like it a lot. I'll admit I wasn't super interested when I first clicked(I was just checking to see how it compares to othe…
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Given that we're in a vim story, I'll reply with a little vim tip… Vim has digraph support built-in¹, so for your example the first few digraphs are In, p*, >=, h*. It is also how I type…
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A fair chunk of interesting commentary and starry-eyed nostalgia from the discussion of the creator's excellent write up - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39118349 …
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I was thinking that number seemed crazy, as it is closer to ~10k at 3km for me(near Cambridge, UK). However, using that site and checking a few friends houses I see Cairo isn't that unusual; ~…
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Link: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/109881?ln=en