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TheGrassyKnoll··on Ask HN: What to use instead of Bash / Sh for scripting?
I tried using Python with import sh for awhile, but...meh.

  https://amoffat.github.io/sh/sections/faq.html
TheGrassyKnoll··on Silphium
Reminded me of this recent HN article about a fruit politely called a medlar.

    A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (bbc.com)
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26611413
TheGrassyKnoll··on Silphium
https://www.aldoleopold.org/about/aldo-leopold/sand-county-a...
TheGrassyKnoll··on How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success
Up one for the toy chicken (I'm thinking rubber chicken).
TheGrassyKnoll··on Show HN: Quotedark.com – Stream over 500k quotes in an intuitive Quote-Engine
Pretty cool, but I can't make it scroll with space bar, up/down arrows, or page-up/page-down. Hacker News seems to scroll fine. (Firefox Nightly)
TheGrassyKnoll··on The Boston Camera
Wonder if the Ruskies ever created their own camera based on this. This must have attracted some kinda spy attention.
TheGrassyKnoll··on Bitcoin Is Time
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GBTC?ltr=1
TheGrassyKnoll··on Free Land – Living Off Grid With No Money
> I’ll stop here and go do something productive.

  It was productive. Thank you.
TheGrassyKnoll··on Free Land – Living Off Grid With No Money
As a kid in school we read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Side_of_the_Mountain

  Gives you a little taste of surviving outdoors.
TheGrassyKnoll··on Autopilot on Cars for $999
So, if I install this, does my insurance go up, down, or get cancelled ?
TheGrassyKnoll··on A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started with Bitcoin
Could have spent a little more time talking about wallets. What is a wallet, some kind of file ? Is there some kind of 'wallet' protocol ? What are strengths and weaknesses of wallets ? How do wallet makers make money ? (unfortunately, I've never owned any bitcoin)
TheGrassyKnoll··on Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP/M (2013)
Was a great tool and incredibly fast for its time. May have been the only thing fast on an 8086...
TheGrassyKnoll··on High Short Interest Stocks
Free government money, a free trading platform & a lot of people stuck at home.
TheGrassyKnoll··on Monarch butterfly population in California spirals to another record low
Then I'll add to the idiocy. I think fake lawns are stupid. (/opinion)
TheGrassyKnoll··on Elon Musk moves to Texas
When I was in elementary school, CA had 20 million people. Now we've got 40 million people. I wouldn't mind it if 20 million people left.
TheGrassyKnoll··on Elon Musk moves to Texas
Try wearing a Dodger hat then.
TheGrassyKnoll··on Sockets in Your Shell
Using Debian 9.0 "Stretch" derived Bunsen Helium. Its enabled.
TheGrassyKnoll··on Sockets in Your Shell
I didn't know this. This is related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7765004/tcp-connection-b...
TheGrassyKnoll··on The Birth of Unix with Brian Kernighan
Kinda reminds me of the Erdos number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number)
TheGrassyKnoll··on Openstreetmap is having a moment
Let me assure you that, in general, dogs are way better people than humans.
TheGrassyKnoll··on We can do better than DuckDuckGo
I actually heard a DDG ad on the radio in the Los Angeles area (KNX 1070 24 hour news). Still love the bangs.
TheGrassyKnoll··on What Gödel Discovered
He used a word I don't see very often (if ever)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenon

TheGrassyKnoll··on Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video]
Building a Leonardo da Vinci Bridge

    https://imgur.com/0lpS9k3
TheGrassyKnoll··on Leaving Mozilla
My 'minion' dream is to get one of those 32 core Threadrippers and actually be able to wrangle all those cores to do my bidding. (my Rust education is moving at glacial speed...)
TheGrassyKnoll··on Toward a “modern” Emacs
Another geezer here. Using Emacs since Bush I.
TheGrassyKnoll··on Toward a “modern” Emacs
But Windows IS evil...
TheGrassyKnoll··on Check if your IP is exposing any ports. If you see 404 page, nothing is exposed
Me too. Its a Frontier supplied router, but I'm not seeing the 404 error. Clicking on that box doesn't reveal anything.
TheGrassyKnoll··on The Mystery of Tom Pritchard’s Bike
> "He said he was trying to get the attention of a beautiful young woman who was a serious cyclist, and he couldn’t just ride up on a Schwinn Varsity."

So, I had an orange Schwinn Varsity when I was in jr. high school. (40 pounds of steel baby). Then one year, one of my friends got a 20-something pound Nishiki. What a revelation that was; the feeling of efficiency was just incredible.

TheGrassyKnoll··on Remembering my father
Ask the Netscape people how evil they think it was...
TheGrassyKnoll··on A half hour to learn Rust
Thanks, its helping. Using Debian derived Bunsen Linux, Emacs (in Terminator), trying to learn Rust. Moving along at glacial speed...
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