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Yeah, I'd recommend using the `-p $pid` option when you can. Not just because it doesn't need to scan all of /proc, like the -c[ommand] or default mode do, but also because it doesn&#x…

On Linux you can use progress¹ for many of these use cases. By default it scans for running processes that you might want to know about, but you can also ask it tell you about a PID with -p. It supp…

Links for 8th: * Home: https://8th-dev.com/ * About: https://8th-dev.com/about8th.html * Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=156…

The file selection/multi picker example at least can work with the fzf package alone. There are a bunch of files in shell/ from the tarball that enable a little magic like interactive h…

Stumbled back across this site when trying to google a forgotten WM, and forgot how interesting desktops sometimes were. Plus, it is an fun step back to when you had to warn people about 200k ima…

When you're unsure about how Python treats an expression, then the ast¹ module is your friend: >>> ast.dump(ast.parse('n != x &~ n'), False) Module([Expr(Compare(…

Yeah, I'd like to see some improvement too. Simply asking strangers who you think may be like you feels weak. My favourite weird recommendation was The 2020 Commission Report¹. I watched a gu…

[Speaking as someone who takes a lot of random book recommendations from side discussions on this site…] If, like me, you're aware of how prolific¹ she was but have yet to dip in, where would you…

I keep reading these types of discussions in part because I'm hoping $smart_people are going to solve this for me. There are restrictions I'd probably like to see, but I just can't see…

Which, as I noted, is still a very different experience from go/nim/rust in Debian. It wasn't a pet peeve about no documentation, it is about how I can interact with it compared to to …

> It is provided by dmd as part of the download. Which leads me to wonder why we don't have dmd{,-doc} in Debian now, given it has been ~3 years since the compiler was open sourced. I can…

My own pet peeve about D is the lack of local documentation. If I install my system's compiler packages¹ I receive basically no documentation at all. That is a huge difference to the experience…

I'm not sure if they're still ordering things the way they were when I last visited, but I loved the ~10m walk from abacus to a Babbage Difference Engine too. Plus, if you have a flexible lu…

No particularly good reason. I have no use for the vlc gui, so mpv is fine for me. At a push I'd perhaps say the lighter dependency stack is a plus, but if mpv didn't exist I'd probab…

> nothing at all about it is perlish that I can think of Yeah, I could probably have picked a better example or more clearly expressed my thoughts. I was attempting to make a point about concept…

Am I the only person who finds "nim is python-y" an odd description? I often think that even "perl with off-side rule" would make more sense, given the variety of ways you can exp…

I love moonscript, it makes lua feel so much more usable for me. Admittedly, I'm mostly only using it for convenience in configuring apps(such as my WM¹/video player²/etc). If you wa…

My erm… favourite example of naming is: "Syphilis had a variety of names, usually people naming it after an enemy or a country they thought responsible for it. The French called it the ‘Neapolit…

For others, like me, looking for a rabbit hole to crawl in to: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&ob... and the referenced https://redd…

As noted in that README, the source is available at the clickable https://www.w3.org/Tools/HTML-XML-utils/ . I didn't link to that for main submission as the descripti…