rlonstein

> The hidden history is particularly annoying when evaluating if someone is a troll operating in bad faith or not; in my experience, when someone makes a comment that is completely out of pocket, their profile is almost always hidden. That is selection bias, however.

Agreed. Hiding history has become a negative signal or, really since it's so common to hide, open history is a positive signal.

There used to be bots that summarized an account's posts. One, I think it was usersimulator, was particularly amusing as it ran a markov chain over the account and generated a fresh post in the style of that user. Quite telling.

I still use reddit but I tag accounts using RES and sometimes see the same bad apples turn up in other subreddits.

> nobody needs or wants a unix shell account in this day and age

> I do. But I do not need just any Unix shell account, I need old and weird ones! I develop and maintain a portable utility (rlwrap) that is aimed at users of older software

Thank you, personally. I've used it in several contexts not just old systems, for example rlwrap is recommended with Clojure (okay, perhaps that's a comparatively small audience).

Finally. Someone else has mentioned this, I thought it was just me who I experiences the sensation of there being stray current on MacBook frames.

+1. I switched to using Nushell as my daily driver around mid-2023 (0.84.0?) and use it in preference to other interactive tools. I do keep at hand jq, yq, and mlr because I need to exchange stuff with colleagues who don't use Nu.

Name collision. I thought it might be the "Lix" fork of "Nix".

> I know there are industrial processes where heat is efficiently recycled, but I agree there are serious practical problems, particularly if the molten glass must be cooled quickly.

My experience working with glass is that you _don't_ want it cooled quickly. It will shatter or get internal stresses that cause it to shatter later. You anneal it in a slowly cooling oven over time. Some steels and brass can be annealed slowly and that heat could, I suppose, be captured. Tempering probably not.

> Still, even somewhat lower grade heat can be upgraded back to high grade heat with high temperature heat pumps.

Which requires energy and incurs losses. If you have energy, assuming electricity, that's cheap enough to scavenge low-level waste heat you probably don't need to recapture the heat.

I thought Saints Row IV and Sleeping Dogs did this really well, to the point where I'd go around in the car just to hear all the radio stations.

> What they'd want to do is try to recover and reuse heat. In principle, there's no reason "new" heat has to be added each time they heat a batch of glass, if heat can be transferred from cooling glass back to the input materials.

Have you worked in any industrial or craft setting involving molten glass or metal? Walked around a workshop? There's no way the heat is going back into the process.

I don't have a dog in the fight, since I don't use Ventoy. Are you referring to this https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224#issuecomment-29...?

> Bosch I presume? > I would bet on that too. I have an older 300 series that is not WiFi and app enabled. It works great. I was suggesting "dumb" device models to someone and it was damned difficult to find which SKUs had misfeatures and which didn't. Same model, possibly same SKU (there are #s for different retailers), but two years newer had "smart" features.

> Seasoned electronics guys can probably solder anything with a cigarette lighter and a scrap piece of metal

This made me laugh. In college in the late 80's I repaired a roommate's not-quite vintage C64 fastloader cartridge with a bad wire bodge using a lighter and the tine of a dining hall fork...

I remember it as, "YOU FORTH LOVE IF HONK THEN"

Apropos, I have one of my grandmother's boxes of recipes on index cards somewhere. She was a great cook but her notes are, aside from being in mixed German and English, nearly useless because the amounts are "some", "a bit", "a spoonful", "a glass", or "a handful". Whose hand? She was tiny, a 1950's size 8 would have been a tent on her. I save it for the memory of those meals.

> Little Kitty Big City

+1. This game was adorable and relaxing from beginning to end.

What a depressing and limited view of reading.

Whatever you think my opinion is of Perl you're probably wrong and the tone of your advocacy is kind of odd.

Awk is older and as a part of POSIX the version found on unix-like environments will be (outside of extensions) compatible with others. If one or one without the extensions you want isn't present you can choose an implementation, even one in Go and it'll work.

Perl, and I've been writing Perl since Perl4, doesn't have those characteristics. It's a much more powerful language that has changed over the years and it is not always present by default on a unix-like system. Because the maintainers value backward compatibility, even scripts written on Perl5.005 have a fair chance of working on a modern version but it's not assumed (and you shouldn't assume anything about modules). Because Awk is fossilized, you can assume that.

- Awk is defined in POSIX

- Awk is on more systems than Perl

- Awk has more implementations than Perl

> granted, he'll probably fuck up his first two or three pretty good without haynes or chilton

Given the assumptions, inaccuracies, and mistakes I've seen in some Haynes and Chilton manuals they'll probably fuck up with them. Factory manuals are usually worth the price (Honda's are, KTM's not so much).

> Would you write your own JSON parser, is it that easy in LISP?

I only dally with Lisp(s) but probably not, I'd reach for a library in quicklisp.

However, in Janet (https://janet-lang.org/) there's a PEG parser and I wrote a JSON parser for fun in 134 lines that passes most of the test suite by Nicolas Seriot.

So I'd say it's reasonably easy for a better-skilled programmer than I am.

Similar. Long time Leap user on a laptop moved to Tumbleweed and it's been good.

A great-uncle had a dairy farm. We played with the magnets too.

I don't know why that would be, but someone archived it: https://web.archive.org/web/20240321134120/https://spd-huntr...

I started an opinionated and still incomplete guide for new players https://spd-huntress-guide.pages.dev/guide. I didn't put it out there and was going to take it down because I couldn't finish it let alone maintain it. It's impossible to keep up with the pace of Evan's updates so the walk-throughs with seeds probably don't work, but someone might find it useful.

I remember we were staying in a hotel Ibis in a cheap part of the city (I was still in grad school), not sure where now we went a few times. The hotels are now Travelodge, I think. We are avid walkers so we went down Rue Sherbrooke and angled toward the water and just stumbled onto it. It was sunny and the craftsmen had the doors open. So we went in just to see.

How did I know? I didn't. But it related to my own story about buying the one really high-quality piece of furniture I own.

When I was in grad school I accidentally wandered into the workshop for Montauk (https://montauksofa.com/collections/sofa/montauk/) with my girlfriend. They were very polite and I took their card. A few years later when I had some money, and my girlfriend was my wife, I still had the card and we bought one. More than twenty years since we still have it and it's just starting to get to where some of the cushions need the down stuffing refreshed. Quality.

It does: https://shenlanguage.org/OSM/15min.html

I'm not sure why you say that. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Cu... and https://emacsthemes.com/ exists.

> Books only require the efforts of one person for a relatively short period of time

Have you actually tried writing a book that you'd want to read? I think there are very few authors who just knock one out like you imply.

Well, yes, and my straight razor is that sharp. Kitchen knives no and certainly not hatchets or axes.