@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.

@AMS @w8emv I think we might need a fsck too; not sure if we've got any good backups available if that doesn't go well though.

@tedu I hope someone's saving all the numbers so we can have a great line graph on wikipedia someday.

@th I was recently able to identify the (oddly familiar) manufacturer of a power supply on the Milennium Falcon: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/1GlWKw22Bqb1XfpGVj

@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).

@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!"