this guidance on man pages for the GNU project is wild https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Man-Pages.html
I need to go find my copy of Sid Meier's autobiography. maybe there's a whole section on what exactly he was smoking back in the late 80s
I’m in Slovakia right now and I noticed that Slovak sounds “wrong” to me, in a way other foreign languages don’t, even Czech, which is also similar to Polish.
Now I know why. Slovak sounds like foreigners trying to pronounce Polish. Where we have “ł”, which is pronounced like “w”, they use “l”, which is usually how foreigners try to read that letter. Where we have “ś”, they usually have “s”, etc. Many of the words that are similar in both languages are basically the same, if you took all the “softened” phonemes and hardened them.
Implementing a web browser is literally impossible.
"The total word count of the W3C specification is 114 million words […]. If you added the combined word counts of the C11, C++17, UEFI, USB 3.2, and POSIX specifications, all 8,754 published RFCs, and the combined word counts of everything on Wikipedia’s list of longest novels, you would be 12 million words short of the W3C specifications."
https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html by @drewdevault
Computers are like onions. Everything is layers built on layers, and every layer makes you cry. #sysadmin
@foone I just tested this! The answer is: the first device it's plugged into retains control, the other device doesn't see it.
I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.
We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parti
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I miss written tutorials. I hate how every tutorial is a YouTube now. I don’t want to watch 15 minutes and forget to pay attention for the second that has the detail that I am missing or it just doesn’t show. Even short tutorials are 3 minutes when it could have been a ten second read. I want to skim a page and go directly to the point. Has writing really become that hard to do?
Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.