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bookwormtrixie commented on Ask HN: Turned 25, Give Me Your Best Advice for the Next 25 Years?    · Posted by u/skx001
bookwormtrixie · 2 months ago
Happy birthday! I don't know if anybody get back to 2 days old thread, but there is one minor thing that have huge impact on me and me relation with other people, although it touch area that other people wrote about as well.

I put birthday of my friends in calendar, so I remember to call them/exceptionally write them on birthday. I don't hesitate to contact them even if someone forgets about mine birthday and this is the only way so I can keep contact with so many friends when you both are quite busy with everyday duties. I know that this might sound odd and artificial for you at your age, but it is very easy to lose some people with moves or once one of you are busy with newborn children or work.

And little thought about relationship, assuming that you thread it seriously, you and your chosen one should be prepared for the worst than can happen do you two and you need to start practice on small problems, so you can go trough huge problems you may encounter. So I really recommend to work on yourselves or rethinking the relationship if minor problems cause quarrels between you two.

bookwormtrixie commented on Ask HN: Pipes in Programming Languages    · Posted by u/account-5
drweevil · 8 months ago
I'm assuming that by 'pipe operator' you mean the semantics, not specifically '|'. Of the programming languages I've used F# ('|>', https://camilotk.github.io/fsharp-by-example/chapters/pipe/), Elixir ('|>', https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/basics/pipe_operator), and Clojure ('->' and '->>', https://clojure.org/guides/threading_macros), have pipe operators. The last two implement them as macros.
bookwormtrixie · 8 months ago
Aside of mentioned above languages, many others have similar concept but does not use any particular operator, e.g.: C# - LINQ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/linq/ Java - Streams https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/24/docs/api/java.base... Rust - Iterator trait https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html
bookwormtrixie commented on Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovered Recently?    · Posted by u/schappim
bookwormtrixie · 8 months ago
* info (GNU textinfo) - an alternative TUI interface manpages

* KHelpCenter - KDE GUI alternative interface for manpages

* Hotspot - GUI for perf profiler - https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot

bookwormtrixie commented on Ask HN: Old Unix technologies like cron and SSE in modern workflows?    · Posted by u/hilti
sejje · 9 months ago
cron jobs are great

tmux + vim > ide (for me)

ssh > rdp

git

terminal

This stuff is so old now, and largely does one thing and does it well. I prefer composing unix tools to writing my own scripts, when it's possible. When I do write my own scripts, often they need to be run from a cron job, soooooo...

<3 old tech

bookwormtrixie · 9 months ago
Tmux(2007) and Git(2005) are not so old, especially comparing to last Unix workstation which were released at a similar time :D

SSH - great tool, even Microsoft adopted it

bookwormtrixie commented on Ask HN: Old Unix technologies like cron and SSE in modern workflows?    · Posted by u/hilti
bookwormtrixie · 9 months ago
I cannot say it is battle tested since I use it for personal use only. libvirt with serial console for VMs and netboot for Linux installation (I am not fully netbooting, since I am use netboot.xyz ISO since it is faster than provisioning proper DHCP+TFTP server or setting up a netboot in VM's UEFI). It makes everything much much faster and more comfortable, almost every Linux distro installer works properly over serial (except RH, CentOS and Fedora which say that few options are unavailable in TUI mode). The only think that is needed to be done to make it works is just to provide a kernel option for serial output (console=ttyS0,115200n81).

When I was using RPi more intensively I was using serial (UART) connection as well. No need to switch keyboard, mouse and monitor in case of failed boot or broken network connection. I was just opening serial console on my desktop and possibility of having terminal with Linux on RPi and web browser on one screen, as well as possibility of copying text between two windows was making Linux boot debugging more comfortable.

bookwormtrixie commented on Ask HN: Do employees at large companies use internal forums instead of Reddit?    · Posted by u/amichail
bookwormtrixie · 9 months ago
Several years ago I was working for major network hardware vendor, we were using MS Yammer (now it seems to be renamed to Viva Engage) as internal social media. I wasn't heavy user of it, actually I think I have checked it few times during my whole employment there as most of my teammates. I remember it as a place for semiformal interaction, related to company, like bragging about releases and other milestones.

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