Syssiphus (u/Syssiphus)

Syssiphus commented on A tutorial for the sam command language (1986) [pdf] doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/s... · Posted by u/networked

Syssiphus · 2 years ago

The SDF Plan9 Bootcamp is running at the moment. Registration is under:

https://sdf.org/plan9/

In case anyone wants to try sam or acme on Plan9 without having to install the system.

Syssiphus commented on Bram Moolenaar has died groups.google.com/g/vim_a... · Posted by u/wufocaculura

jakebasile · 3 years ago

Vim and its descendant modes in other editors has drastically improved my life, which maybe is a weird thing to say about a text editor but it's true. I am very sorry to hear of his passing.

Syssiphus · 3 years ago

If it's something that you use for a large part of your day, then there is nothing weird about it.

Syssiphus commented on Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled dropboxforum.com/t5/Integ... · Posted by u/Xeanort

Pawka · 3 years ago

Is this still a case?

The first comment in thread is from 2020, the last - from 2021. Now where I live is 2023.

I don't have any relationship with Dropbox, but we should be precise that this information might be outdated.

Syssiphus · 3 years ago

I checked my pi-hole query log and couldn't find any reference to the named telemetry address.

Syssiphus commented on Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.0 sbcl.org/all-news.html?2.... · Posted by u/bjoli

capableweb · 6 years ago

Worth noting is that according to the Download page[1], only amd64 linux has had 2.0 binaries released. None of the other platforms has it yet (so macOS and Windows doesn't [yet])

- [1] http://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html

Syssiphus · 6 years ago

Windows amd64 as well now.

Syssiphus commented on She Wanted a Man with a Good Job Who Is Nice to Animals nytimes.com/2019/08/16/st... · Posted by u/danso

Syssiphus · 7 years ago

Nothing can ever replace your dog.

Syssiphus commented on Humans Will Never Colonize Mars gizmodo.com/humans-will-n... · Posted by u/cribbles

b_tterc_p · 7 years ago

help me wrap my head around that. If you’re in -40 in a low pressure atmosphere, it doesn’t cool you down faster because there’s less mass for your heat to transfer to?

Does that mean things don’t cool down in a vacuum? Is there a weird curve where by at some point having less cold gas arounds you means you’ll cool down faster instead of slower?

Syssiphus · 7 years ago

I think that property of a vacuum is already used in a day-to-day object.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_flask

Syssiphus commented on History and Effective Use of Vim begriffs.com/posts/2019-0... · Posted by u/begriffs

stirfrykitty · 7 years ago

Been using vim since 1998 and rarely stray unless I'm typing notes for something unimportant and them I use Nano.

Back in the day when I was a Unix admin, we often worked in full screen terminals and when editing a config file didn't like having to close the vim instance to go look at something, so learned about this little gem:

:sh (go back to shell and do your thing and leave vim running)

Ctrl-d to return to intact and running vim instance.

As an aside, if you decide to use nano to edit config files, make sure you use nano -w (no wrap), otherwise you may find yourself with a non-bootable OS instance.

Syssiphus · 7 years ago

Or just CTRL+z and then 'fg' to go back.

Syssiphus commented on The unlikely resurgence of Dungeons and Dragons inlander.com/spokane/near... · Posted by u/gscott

tomc1985 · 7 years ago

What a shame that all this attention goes to D&D. There are so many other good tabletop games with exquisite worldbuilding, languishing for attention... Vampire: The Masquerade, RIFTS (my personal fav)

Syssiphus · 7 years ago

Or TORG .. so many possibilities in that game (badum tss)

Syssiphus commented on Show HN: I built a puzzle / programming challenge with a 0.125 BTC prize formapi.io/blog/posts/201... · Posted by u/nathan_f77

anonfunction · 7 years ago

I got through the first 6 css pixel perfect challenges but got stuck on the last one where I couldn't get the gradients to match.

Syssiphus · 7 years ago

It's possible to interpolate the correct values with a screenshot, the gimp and a calculator.

Syssiphus commented on Where Vim Came From twobithistory.org/2018/08... · Posted by u/janvdberg

Syssiphus · 8 years ago

> Fred Fish was an American programmer that mailed out a floppy disk every month with a curated selection of the best open-source software available for the Amiga platform.

Fish disks contained mostly freeware/public domain as far as I remember. Not open-source software.

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- born 1975 - German - speaks: german, english - programmer - likes: Lisp, Commodore64, Amiga

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