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That is not what "Show HN" is for¹, but the idea of a curated collection of "On This Day" event reports from the wayback machine sounds like a nice idea to me now ;) ¹ https:/…
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There is no backref, but the Magic Smoke¹ article to this one. I've always quite liked both topics as seemingly reasonable explanations for observed behaviour, there is something both quaint and …
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Discussed over the past couple of days¹. And even with the less inflammatory title from LWN, it went… er, well. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36630032 …
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Sadly, that doesn't look like it will work. The '.backup' command needs a filename and won't accept '-' or even '/dev/stdout', at least in the versio…
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That is great. I could see a lot it was in the wayback machine, but I have no idea what the pipeline for that is. Poking around from your link was informative, thanks!
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I sincerely applaud everything ending up on IA. However, if you're searching for specific instructions brickinstructions is excellent as it is far more navigable. For a random example see Sta…
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The '.backup' command also carries across the metadata too, so you don't lose things like 'application_id'¹. I mention this as I once wasted a bunch of time trying to get a ba…
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Lots of comments from gyfcat's own notice a few days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36557287
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Full agreement about it depending on the podcast, finding a player where speed is feed specific was a huge improvement for me. There are a few podcasts I listen to where the accent and cadence makes …
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It is the support for narrator.device that amuses me. One of the most futuristic feeling things an early Amiga was capable of doing being attached to GPT. It would mimic an actual 80s tv/movie …
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Discussed at length a few days ago¹. IMO, some interesting thoughts to be found if you're willing to fish through the predictable flotsam and jetsam. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com&#x…
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If you're installing a distro package or one of the builds mentioned in the link, I encourage you to try building it yourself. The build system is really well thought through, and unusually for …
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There were some interesting comments in a submission earlier this week - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36420460 …
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Joey Hess' excellent moreutils¹ comes with vipe which is a generalised solution for these types of tasks. It allows you to run whatever $EDITOR you've configured mid-pipe, making it possibl…