@kevinrothrock It's probably these same teens from 2014 now of drinking age: https://theonion.com/teens-migrating-from-facebook-to-comments-section-of-sl-1819595619/

@arj @acsawdey Hmm, actually on further investigation it looks like that actually sorts via gnulib's filevercmp, which apparently has some additional smarts to make it slightly more DWIM-y. So, perhaps subtly different, but similar in spirit.

@acsawdey @arj Yep, -v:

$ ls -l
total 0
-rw------- 1 zev zev 0 Aug  4 01:58 10
-rw------- 1 zev zev 0 Aug  4 01:58 9
$ ls -lv
total 0
-rw------- 1 zev zev 0 Aug  4 01:58 9
-rw------- 1 zev zev 0 Aug  4 01:58 10

@corbet @lwn LWN is indeed an absolute gem; and while all the other topics the site covers are generally quite well done too, I would point to your kernel articles in particular as an exemplary job of combining both technical depth and remarkable accessibility despite the nature of the material (and yes, likewise something my own career has also benefited enormously from).

Bravo, and I will remain doggedly subscribed even as the scraper bots and LLM slop are busily trying to suffocate the last bits of useful life on the web.

@rk @RikerGoogling Little do we realize it, but as we enter commands at our shell prompts, we are also in the background composing...the greatest shell script in history.

@arj crates.io links at the end of the post look a bit broken, just FYI.

It still happens; I still love it.

@benjojo Well, it does appear that they had the foresight to allow multiple (up to 255?) content tags, so you can encode things like "adult (general) + gardening + team sports (excluding football)" and cover a decently broad array of niches.

@mxey @brauner @monsieuricon Someone by the same name used to pester comp.arch (and probably other newsgroups) with reams of similar blather; looks like the demise of usenet has forced them to find a new outlet, though now sadly they have much more powerful tools at their disposal for generating voluminous drivel.

@rk @gerrymcgovern

We put a chip in it!

It was a dumb thing. Then we put a chip in it. Now it's a smart thing.

https://weputachipinit.tumblr.com/

@arj @nixCraft leftpad.sh

@jzb Yes, though pretty much exclusively only when seeing ligatures (or worse, but much more rarely, variable width fonts). Absolute madness. Otherwise...meh.

...but only if separated by a space! Commas don't get the same treatment.

$ ps -fp $$,$PPID
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
zev       3199  1638  1 19:21 pts/41   00:00:00 -bash
zev       1638     1  0 Jun29 tty1     00:13:52 urxvtd -q -f -o

@GeoffWozniak My particular condolences if you happen to be at the intersection of the two (i.e. gdb's remote protocol). That protocol...would probably need to be published on April 1 if it were ever written up as an RFC.

@swetland @drj I'm an aficionado of neither fonts nor typewriters, but I found TT2020 to be an interesting one: https://copypaste.wtf/TT2020/

(I used it for the signage at my wedding.)

@tedu whaddya suppose the odds are this ultimately boils down to php's famously robust, meticulous data type coercions?

@arj @fay59 On a similar note, man operator provides a convenient listing of C operator precedence & associativity. Section 7 is a gold mine of odds and ends.

@rk @cks ext4 on Linux still does!

$ man mke2fs
...
       -m reserved-blocks-percentage
              Specify the percentage of the file system blocks reserved for
              the super-user.  This avoids fragmentation, and allows root-
              owned daemons, such as syslogd(8), to continue to function
              correctly after non-privileged processes are prevented from
              writing to the file system.  The default percentage is 5%.

@arj Hah -- what project is that from? (And I'm assuming it is in fact accurate and not an artifact of github language misidentification.)

@benjojo Fun that it's almost always length-preserving (single bit flips in most of the cases shown), but occasionally (e.g. beljjo) drops a whole byte...wonder what's going on there?

@novalis @tedu It's a bit roundabout and a smoother UI mechanism for it would be nice, but the method I typically use is to paste the URL of B's reply into the import field in the xzone page to manually fetch it.

And the encouraging honks from the monorail drivers going by overhead downtown were a crowd-pleaser too.

Also my dear wife leading a nice hearty round of ¡chinga la migra!, despite only having learned the phrase the night before.

@rk The strongest argument against creationism/"intelligent design" is the absolute idiocy of the design.

@tedu Glad to see some performance optimization work happening...for far too long have I suffered, my thought leadership bottlenecked by the 15 honks-per-minute throughput limit.

@mattblaze @Disputatore Oh wow, this reminded me of something I hadn't thought of in quite a while...

In college a friend's chemistry lab group had a report due, and after each doing their respective parts, one of them was tasked with the final document preparation and hand-in. The other two found out some time later (after getting some concerned questions from the professor), that hand-in guy had apparently been quite high while doing so (on exactly what I don't know, possibly LSD?). At the time I saved copies of the actual files from my friend and managed to dig them up, and it's really quite something. (Some choice excerpts pictured here.)

So yeah, don't give LSD guy final edit...but sometimes LSD guy can take you by surprise.

@rk And here I was imagining it as the daemon that keeps you from using your Mac to commit financial crimes. (Or maybe just fixes the odd DRAM bit flip.)

@cliffle Ever since The Sticker Incident a few years ago, whenever I see AMI's name written out in full I keep hoping it'll be like this.

@encthenet I think the idea with implementation-defined behavior is that you look at the implementation's documentation and it tells you what it does. GCC's, for example.