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Is Linux designed in such a way that less-than-page size allocations never fail? How would that work?

For completions sake, though, the easy way to do it is:

    foo`'bar

The empty quotes make foo and bar separate words.

Why do you need to remove all of these from the environment?

Vi is in POSIX, it has been open source since 2002, and some version of it truly is on every UNIX system.

Although Lua patterns are quite elegant and, in my opinion, more readable than normal regex. Despite having a small string library, Lua still works for many use cases.

“Imaginary problems are the roots of negative developments”

If only there was some well written book about Learning Perl, or well written documentation in the form of manual pages (see perldata).

OpenBSD does not support jails or ZFS. Those are FreeBSD features (although perhaps NetBSD supports some of them too?). I really like OpenBSD but I think it’s counterproductive to lump them together: they are very different.

What configuration debt does OpenBSD bring to your mind?

The book also includes a map of the places mentioned, at the time of Classical Latin that the narrative is set in. I’m only about half way through, but there really aren’t that many cognates. An aha! moment every so often, sure — like silēre -> silēns -> silentem -> silent — but it’s not like I read through and it only makes sense because of cognates.

For me personally, the godawful default syntax highlighting is … quite unfortunate

I find this interesting because I (and most Americans?) see BE as much more “posh” than AmE … I guess I’ll be looking out for actual word differences/etymologies more now

Other comments haven’t pointed this out, but the key thing is that each account gets a different input (so it's a little harder to cheat).

Oh, “tag” made my brain parse as HTML tags. TIL

Good thing this acronym distingui- oh.

> Unicode has language tags that you can embed in documents, those are deprecated and they were never well supported,

Huh? MDN doesn’t mention this … why are they deprecated?

Prescriptivism much? :p

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Note that OpenBSD now uses the much smaller doas instead.

Where does the reference to the tails come from?

Thank you!

What is the stronger version?

“Mordor” and “little Mordor” on the map sealed the deal for me

> Or d7w, or c9j… I can’t count seven words or nine lines as fast as I can just tap vwwwwwwwd or shift-vjjjjjjjjjc, because in the latter case I only have to pick out whether the cursor has reached the target, allowing me to blast out four w, then three, then two, with increasing precision as I converge.

No one actually counts :) For vertical motions, I use {/} and search; horizontal motions can use w/W/b/B/e/E, t/f/T/F as well. If you’re counting, you’re doing it wrong: big numbers can’t be recognized quickly, small numbers it’s faster to press ‘.’ than to hit the digit.

Or Caddy, if the documentation is correct …

Fossil is decentralized, just like git?

Counterpoints:

* Asciinema text uses the user’s preferred font instead of whatever monstrosity of a Comic Code font the developer happens to like

* Asciinema text can be selected and copied

* You can zoom in on it and it’ll still be high quality

etc. Arguing against Asciinema is like saying you prefer when people take screenshots of their Gnome Terminal windows instead of inserting code blocks into their blog posts :p

And preferably use fileinput for the stdin so that you can name files on the command line as well

But then what would we talk about? The update?

Well, it takes like 10 seconds to learn Subversion to a usable level. So you could argue that it is a superior system … everywhere it’s viable.