@rk I will die on the hill that "lib" (as in libc) should rhyme with "tribe", because it's obviously short for "library", while also still pronouncing /bin as rhyming with "tin". Self-consistency is obviously very important.
Also, while I felt sort of silly photographing a car (and not even a terribly rare one here) while walking through a historic neighborhood of Kanazawa, when we walked back the same way an hour later I was amused to see someone else taking a picture of the very same one (though I'm not sure what his reasons for doing so were -- I'm guessing probably not the same as mine).
Data links are of course very important, but the creators of this vehicle felt so strongly about it that they named the whole car in honor of one.
We really went in the wrong direction trying to rename French Fries as Freedom Fries; Japan did a much better job on the properly red-blooded, USA-friendly nomenclature.
@paulmckrcu @rw Oh neat, is someone producing prints of that now?
Also, looks like the Internet Archive has a couple others like it ("Unix Feuds", "Unix Views") that I don't think I've ever seen before: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Gary+Overacre%22 -- though I'll confess I'm not sure I entirely "get" the Views one...might someone with more historical knowledge than I be able to shed some light?
@rk "...and that's how I taught my dog to do binary search!"
"I think all the things I cooked individually taste good, but I don't know if putting them together was the right move."
- my wife, introducing dinner
@pancake @david_chisnall Funny, I've always felt that distinguishing the two was a good reason to do the opposite. (And of course, some styles also homogenize the two by instead omitting the space for control-flow keywords, which I also dislike.)
@jk Give someone a fish, feed them for a day; teach someone to fish, feed them for a lifetime; teach someone to think like a computer, crush them under an infinitely-growing mountain of fish.
Delicate Steve at Tractor Tavern this evening -- remarkably non-deafening, and with a great deal more dynamic range than a typical club show. Sort of missed the bass player that was part of the band last time I saw him/them (I think, it's been a while), but still a cool, very enjoyable time.
@rk @mothcompute It happens: https://theonion.com/death-of-chopped-up-woman-ruled-a-suicide/
@cliffle @ede1998 Soo (compiler-appeasing contortions increasing to comedic levels)...
{
let _unused = colors;
}
?
New frontiers in literature courtesy of this evening's game of Monikers:
"For sale: two babies, no shoes."
@rk Thanks, though I then regret to inform you that it was two houses ago and now quite a few states away...
@rk Well, he figured out how to scramble over that gate shortly after that photo was taken as I recall, so the joke was ultimately on us.
@rk We once were so cruel as to eat dinner on the opposite side of the baby gate from ours. Five years later I'm still racked with guilt.
@mxshift what vehicle is getting brain surgery?
Sometimes I come across a linked in profile like this and then I know I'm probably going to get along with them just fine
@petersanchez IBM had this figured out for eSATA ages ago!
Cocktail menu at dinner this evening was color coded, five drinks labeled White, Black, Blue, Green, and Red. Green sounded good so I ordered one, and when it arrived I discovered the true nature of the color scheme: a Magic the Gathering card provided with each one! So naturally I had to get another.
Okay, having now dealt with TOML to a degree only incrementally beyond writing foocrate = "1.2"
in a Cargo.toml file, I'm thinking the "O" in its name must be a humorous homage to the "S" in SNMP.
From its own damn spec:
3.14159 = "pi"
The above TOML maps to the following JSON.
{ "3": { "14159": "pi" } }
Of course. Obviously.
JSON, for all its boneheadedness, at least manages to be structurally pretty self-explanatory (if still syntactically awkward and semantically murky).
The failure of the industry to coalesce around a halfway-decent language for these sorts of ad-hoc, semi-structured data formats (and the myriad crummy ones all three-legged-racing each other for adoption) is...remarkable.
Thank you, Docker, for turning the edit/test/debug cycle of an 8-line shell script that runs in ~1 second into a 5m30s process. Constant, ubiquitous technological progress!
@cliffle @dpiponi Or the O(log N) operations are just really slow...like, stores are chiseling Roman numerals into stone, and loads involve OCR on an 8051 with a clock signal driven by a drugged sloth with a push-button.
Household dog population has tripled alarmingly rapidly.
Izzy (rightmost) is the enforcer ensuring Bowie and Rocko don't have too much fun, intervening vocally whenever they start to try.
@arj Shades of https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110310-00/?p=11253
@benjojo Perhaps these are the same people who added the command-not-found
package to Ubuntu's default set. (Not exactly the same I suppose, but usually the first thing I torch on any new installation I encounter.)
Aboard the Millennium Falcon recently (okay, Disneyland's "Smuggler's Run" ride) I spotted some distinctly terrestrial-looking componentry. I guess LG's beaten out all those puny multinational conglomerates and become multigalactic.
@joe
Dogs are proof that one can be noble without being dignified.
@regehr Amsterdam might be promising: https://social.v.st/@th/113843212405715721
@david_chisnall Bowie was looking sleepier than usual this morning.
@jk @voltagex Then all you need is a way to introduce some controlled clock skew and presto, you could even adjust the duty cycle!
Fun fact. It's common to say that a broken clock is right twice a day. But a clock turning backwards is right 4 times a day.
@cliffle Pets are great thermal photography subjects; unfortunately my already sort of camera-shy dog gets way more so when I pull out the Flir, so he's a bit hard to capture, but I did manage this one a few months ago.