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bonked 18 Jan 2026 09:28 -0800
original: brianbilston@mastodon.online
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

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Hoo boy...what have I gotten myself into?
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bonked 18 Jan 2026 09:28 -0800
original: brianbilston@mastodon.online
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

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honked back 09 Jan 2026 11:27 -0800
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Assuming a causal relationship (naturally), the obvious question is its direction -- nominative determinism or merely descriptivism?
Glancing through @paulmckrcu's perfbook, it occurs to me that the strength/weakness of a CPU architecture's memory model is in most cases reasonably approximated lexically. How does SPARC compare to Itanium? Well, I comes before S, so ia64 is the weaker of the two.

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honked back 07 Jan 2026 16:49 -0800
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honked back 25 Dec 2025 11:37 -0800
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honked back 04 Dec 2025 13:26 -0800
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@rk @spiegelmama @GossiTheDog And it's especially hilarious that they renamed the company after it. Like a facial tattoo of a one-hit wonder band, only it's a zero-hit wonder.
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honked back 01 Dec 2025 15:16 -0800
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@rk @cks @mothcompute I believe AFS has a similar mechanism wherein a symlink named (Granted, I wonder if it was really just that support for that particular pattern was special-cased, given what a nightmare it would be implementation-wise and performance-wise to actually execute arbitrary commands in the middle of
@foo resolves to the output of runing foo as a command -- primarily used in the form of @sys, which would point to e.g. linux-i386 or sunos-sparc or whatnot for bin directories and such in the days of more heterogeneous networks. namei() or the like...)
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honked back 01 Dec 2025 07:40 -0800
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@arj Ah, nice...I had tickets to seem them a few years back, but then a certain suddenly-ubiquitous viral pathogen went and mucked everything up.
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honked back 27 Nov 2025 09:14 -0800
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@rk So obviously the most appropriate place to consume baklava is on the rim of an enormous caldera -- which is exactly what I was doing earlier today, as it happens.
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bonked 27 Nov 2025 08:40 -0800
original: benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
This MacOS (APFS?) quirk was mentioned at the pub last night, and I still cannot believe this actually works when I tried it myself

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honked back 04 Nov 2025 16:54 -0800
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Update: the tree is still good. (From a different angle this year.)

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honked back 28 Oct 2025 23:27 -0700
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@rk @Toxic_Flange Seems like the natural way for things to evolve, frankly -- Coca Cola is, after all, an anagram of Cloaca Co.
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honked back 28 Oct 2025 14:56 -0700
in reply to: https://hachyderm.io/users/cliffle/statuses/115453925393511139
Hmm, so is the implication that it might not gracefully handle timezone changes in long-running programs while glibc would?
Rust time formatting using the chrono crate doesn't repeatedly restat /etc/localtime
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honked back 24 Oct 2025 09:40 -0700
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@david_chisnall @dantheclamman That last paragraph reminds me of another Onion classic: https://theonion.com/new-delicious-species-discovered-1819567839/
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honked back 22 Oct 2025 10:33 -0700
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