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Well, no, it wouldn’t. The bods that make these decisions still live like it’s 1950 and dream of an authoritarian future of masters and slaves.

What good is The Google or The AI when you’re sipping champagne up an ivory tower or out on the ocean being waited on hand and foot on a gleaming yacht?

So, there was this TV experiment where they served soup to a well-known scientist*, but, with his agreement, they stirred it first with an unused - and I stress unused - toilet brush.

He couldn’t bring himself to eat it.

Metaphorically speaking, our world is full of amazing things but they’re all stirred by clean toilet brushes. Sometimes, it’s worse than that and they’re used.

Do not want.

* Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, he was later cancelled for being old and out of touch on women’s issues among other things, which is kind of an example of this same trope when you think about it. His opinions and reactions on soup and food disgust aren’t linked to any of that but you might be tempted to ignore the result because of it.

But then, that puts him in the same category as Louis CK and that’s what I’m responding to. Food for thought.

qed was also a line editor but pre-dated and inspired ed, so that’s pico to nano or ed to ex again, just even further back in time.

sed and grep grew out of commands within ed (or equivalent) so I guess you could say they’re each kind of a knight’s move two to the side and once backward from the direction of ex to vi. Backwards because they’re simpler, but two to the side because they’re not interactive.

As to what would be “backward but one to the side” in that analogy, that’d be something like a tool that asked questions about every line in a file and made changes accordingly. I don’t think there’s any such standard tool, but I can think of at least a couple of ways to write one.

Fun fact: “Aluminium” is the international / official spelling. But where Brits have to take the L, or rather the F, is with “Sulphur”, because the international / official spelling of that is “Sulfur”. The others aren’t wrong, but they’re not the standard.

Anyway, I wonder if the international spelling has anything to do with it. Or maybe it just follows better from Chromium.

Comparison time!

ex is to ed as nano is to pico

That is, it’s an editor that works in almost exactly the same way as the original, but it’s by somebody else.

ex is to vi as vi is to vim, or C to C++.

That is, the latter grew out of and improved upon the former, but you can still use them like their forerunners if you really want, which is why vi has an ex mode and why you can still use pointers in C++ if you’re sufficiently warped.

If your system has vi or a clone, try vi -e, or, if the symlink is set up, ex. Technically that’s vi in ex mode, not ed per-se but it’s about as similar as you’re going to get without a lot of pointless bother.

Looks like DDR6 is due in 2027, so DDR5 prices will start to fall in 2-3 years when all the AI bros move over to DDR6 instead.

It might be sooner, but that would mean the AI bubble popped.

Meanwhile, here I am on a PC that’s less than two years old with DDR4 in it. Works fine for my needs.

The Cinnamon desktop environment found in Linux Mint uses JavaScript on the back-end. My knowledge doesn’t extend much beyond that (other DEs, and what they do, nor the full extent of JS in Cinnamon), but I did look at it at one point.

Makes me wonder if OP was talking it about that in particular or if there’s some other project with a bundled JS interpreter they decided not to work with.

There’s an argument to be made that a continuous function is better than a piecewise function when coming at things mathematically, so in that sense it’s at least somewhat interesting.

Sure, in computer science where discrete mathematics is king and the modulus operator is ubiquitous, a cosine representation is entirely unnecessary, but from a recreational mathematical angle, it’s a fun distraction.

And it’s not like cosine interpolations are useless in a broader sense. They’ve contributed much to computer graphics.

Me, looking between a picture of Bjarne Stroustrup and OP: … are you sure about that?

Reminds me of dev.null as an e-mail address, but perhaps the service is more useful(?). I had access to the back-end of the mail server in question and it literally had /dev/null in the configuration.

And yes, it ate any e-mails sent to it.

I don’t happen across Medium very often so I wondered what this sentiment was about.

Apparently Medium is basically YouTube for bloggers and essayists (with apologies to those who surely think that’s an insulting comparison) and the new CEO messed with the algorithm so much that now writers’ content isn’t being promoted as well as it used to be, and the people who subscribed (or followed, or whatever) aren’t even seeing that content as much any more.

~… and it seems there’s no option to get a notification about new content from favourite writer, but maybe I’ve missed it. No “ring that bell” here.~ Edit: When I turned on JavaScript I got a pop-up implying that exists, at least for people who aren’t logged in.

But as far as I can tell, that doesn’t necessarily mean we should hate the content that’s on there.

On my computer, this pushes one core to ~60%, eats ~40MB of memory over the course of about a minute and then segfaults.

I did make one small change to the condition which would mean that it would bail out if available memory got too low, but 40MB barely even registered so it was basically true the whole time. In retrospect, I probably should have been monitoring process count instead (or done both), but I guess I got away with it.

As OP says, you need to create subprocesses with & to cause real problems.

*Bash 5.2.15 / LMDE6 / who knows what other factors. Try these things at your own risk. Or better, just don’t.

On the one hand, the PDF editing feature could be useful, but on the other, it’s a sign of yet more feature creep and I don’t know whether I’m justified in feeling concerned about it.

JavaScript is in that set of “some” languages. Most of it ties back to C’s struct tm which zero-indexes months (0-11), weekdays (0-6), and the rarely used day of year (0-365), as well as offsetting years by 1900.

The odd man out, so to speak, is the date (or “mday” as it’s called there), which is in the range 1-31. One (Perl) book I own suggests that the zero-based ones are used to index arrays of strings and implies this one is different because it generally isn’t used that way.

But anyway, these are decisions made 50 years ago that still haunt us.

Oh! This must be the guy who was called out on that exact thing and it gave him serious pause before he was able to jump-start the bullsh-tting part of his brain.

Wait until you learn how months are numbered in some programming languages.

The clever documentation calls it “months since January”.

Keep going. We may be homing in on how the number order was derived for a dartboard.

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…hail Hydra?