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I have used gkrellm since 1998 when my preferred wm was blackbox and playing MP3s in xmms was cool. Still run it today on Cinnamon. RIP Bill and thanks for the OSS contribution of a lifetime!

This works amazingly well for regulated software markets such as medical devices that need a lot of review/approval and traceability. Markdown is much more AI and script-friendly yet still layman readable. The workflow is significantly faster than industry standard tools like Windchill which are like git with a 1985 GUI in front of it.

End of an era. I remember using them consistently in the mid- to late-90’s. Sad to see them go but change is the only constant in life. Goodbye old friend!

Why do I get the feeling this is repeating TCP features at the Message level? There must a protocol that can hide this exactly once need away. TCP doesn't create downloads, generally, that are bad and fail their checksum test, hence packets that make up the file are not duplicated.

I agree, but I am just too lazy for that. Mine are all one char:

  alias b='/usr/local/bin/git checkout -b'
  alias a='/usr/local/bin/git add
  alias d='/usr/local/bin/git diff HEAD'
  alias c='git commit -m'
  alias i='/usr/local/bin/git pull origin'
  alias o='/usr/local/bin/git branch -avv | grep "\*" | cut -d\ -f 2 | xargs -n 1 /usr/local/bin/git push -u origin'
plus:
  alias g='/usr/local/bin/git log --graph --oneline --decorate 
  alias v='/usr/local/bin/git branch -avv'--all'
  alias h='/usr/local/bin/git log -p'
can be useful.
Becoming a CTO 10 years ago

You are definitely a CTO. And as one I agree completely. Without creativity in the hands of the craftsman who actually make the product there is no craft, only a tool.

Figure out what varies => encapsulate that. Could be behavior, structure, or creation. This idea that you can avoid DRY in a positive way simply means one has yet to recognize that first statement.

BlackBox 10 years ago

Yeah, I'm old. I used blackbox on Linux in '98. Nostalgia.

Feels kinda crazy to see tuples and pattern matching "just arrive" when other languages have had them for years.

The current problem is the pricing is completely non-transparent hence consumers cannot choose based upon price. No one knows what anything costs until a bill arrives much, much later. In addition, it is extremely opaque how the numbers on the bill are arrived at.

Having lived around the Windows world since Win 3.1, I cannot get over the sneaking suspicion that somewhere deep down Microsoft is working towards an attempt to "embrace and extend" Linux. Maybe it's just me, but they've gotten rather interested in Linux lately and they are reaching out to it in seemly innocuous ways. I hope I am wrong.

Science works via repeatable experiments and inductive reasoning where hypothesis are tested against observational evidence. Until they have that in-hand, it is but interesting conjecture whose plausibility remains untested.