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Thread: Favourite Scripting Languages
Post: RE: Favourite Scripting Languages
| I do really like awk as well, and I'm using it more and more, but I don't think I could use it as a general purpose scripting language, that's just not what it's meant to be used for. |
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Programming On Unix
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24-03-2021, 04:10 PM |
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Thread: Favourite Scripting Languages
Post: Favourite Scripting Languages
| I, and I imagine many others, have a wide collection of miscellaneous scripts to perform various tasks. "Scripts" in this case is defined as interpreted/not compiled/fast startup over runtime performa... |
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sulami |
Programming On Unix
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24-03-2021, 06:40 AM |
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Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
| I've been fully remote before 2020, so there wasn't really a big adjustment for me, save for the closure of coffee places and such, also everyone being at home all the time now.
(04-01-2021, 04:12 A... |
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sulami |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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07-01-2021, 09:00 AM |
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Thread: Tiling vs Stacking
Post: RE: Tiling vs Stacking
| (25-11-2020, 12:40 PM)opFez Wrote: wow, a wm you have to pay for?Yeah, it's also on the pricier side. I don't mind paying a few bucks to help fund development on some tools that I use, but this is n... |
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sulami |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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25-11-2020, 01:23 PM |
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Thread: Tiling vs Stacking
Post: RE: Tiling vs Stacking
| I've been on and off with tiling, but mostly off, because it keeps being more in the way and shuffling around windows than I want it to, but every now and then I want to select 2-3 windows and say "ti... |
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sulami |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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25-11-2020, 07:18 AM |
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Thread: Remote work solution
Post: RE: Remote work solution
| (23-11-2020, 10:21 AM)eye Wrote: Do you have any problems with it? Do you like working from home? Do you hate it?
I generally like it, but this year has been harder then previous ones.
(23-11-2020... |
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sulami |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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25-11-2020, 06:36 AM |
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Thread: What are your opinions on "replacement" programs for core utilities
Post: RE: What are your opinions on "replacement" progra...
| I mostly agree with the stated opinions here, extending coreutils is fine, but replacing is a no-no.
One other reason I’m hesitant to jump onto all those “like X but nicer (and in Rust)” tools is tha... |
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sulami |
Programming On Unix
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24-11-2020, 06:23 PM |
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Thread: Remote work solution
Post: RE: Remote work solution
| Slack & Zoom & Email (& IRC) for comms.
Documents live somewhere between GitHub (engineering) and GDocs (everyone else). We used to have Dropbox Paper, which was nice, but apparently proh... |
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sulami |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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18-11-2020, 06:28 AM |
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Thread: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, where does pkg management stands
Post: RE: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, w...
| That reminds me of Jon Blow’s talk, which has a lot of similar themes around complexity growing too quickly for anyone to keep track. He’s also especially worried that we’ll lose the knowledge of the ... |
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sulami |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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15-11-2020, 04:59 AM |
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Thread: Your PROMPT
Post: RE: Your PROMPT
| (11-11-2020, 01:20 PM)jkl Wrote: I would assume that such a low contrast is very hard to stare at for a long time.
This is the stock Solarized dark theme. I don't like too high contrast because I fi... |
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sulami |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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11-11-2020, 04:57 PM |
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Thread: Your PROMPT
Post: RE: Your PROMPT
| Mine's quite boring, this is ZSH without any frameworks or so.
I used to be a vim user (before Emacs) and my workflow hinged on suspending/resuming vim to get to my shell, so I've got the background ... |
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sulami |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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11-11-2020, 07:11 AM |
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Thread: Favorite music for getting things done
Post: RE: Favorite music for getting things done
| Mostly non-distracting electronic music. Some of my favourites:
Sadowick - The Icarus Project (actually bought it for .flacs)
Anything by Extrawelt
Moby is also pretty good
Glitch Mob
Also vario... |
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sulami |
Off topic
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13-06-2016, 09:48 AM |
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Thread: building lemonbar for openbsd
Post: RE: building lemonbar for openbsd
| I assume you have used GNU make (`gmake`) as opposed to BSD make (`make`)? If so, I can fire up one of my OBSD boxes to do a quick test build. |
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sulami |
BSD
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27-12-2015, 07:35 PM |
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Thread: Am I the Only One?
Post: RE: Am I the Only one?
| (24-12-2015, 02:20 PM)xikuuky Wrote: I like FrankenWM.I've also used Luakit.
Great to hear! |
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sulami |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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24-12-2015, 09:48 PM |
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Thread: Everything is a file
Post: RE: Everything is a file
| I think EIAF is an incredibly elegant solution to a problem that only became really relevant decades later. I cannot believe how people are actually programming systems which expose super-simple stuff... |
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sulami |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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17-12-2015, 04:27 AM |
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Thread: Let's talk amdgpu
Post: RE: Let's talk amdgpu
| I personally did not have too many problems with my 5870 and radeon (the OSS one), my only problem is that fan control seems to not exist, so the card defaults to 35%-40% which is already pretty noisy... |
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sulami |
Hardware talk
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25-11-2015, 12:43 PM |
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Thread: Let's talk amdgpu
Post: Let's talk amdgpu
| AMD just released 1.0 of amdgpu, their new official open-source driver that (I guess) will replace radeon and catalyst in the future. I made a roundup of supported cards from the chip-ids in the drive... |
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sulami |
Hardware talk
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24-11-2015, 06:17 PM |
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Thread: Following OpenBSD-current
Post: RE: Following OpenBSD-current
| I'm not 100% sure what you want to do, but afaik anything is possible as long as you update. Anything going back in time is explicitly not supported and might break your system. So stable -> snapsh... |
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sulami |
BSD
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08-08-2015, 05:59 PM |
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Thread: Switching From Machine To machine
Post: RE: Switching From Machine To machine
| I converted to a Thinpad X200 a couple of months ago, which is docked in and thus connected to all my usual stuff, big screen, keyboard, sound system etc. When I want to go somewhere else, I can just ... |
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sulami |
Hardware talk
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29-07-2015, 01:35 PM |
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Thread: Encryption
Post: RE: Encryption
| I use gpg for the most part to encrypt really sensitive stuff. I also have copies of some things I must not lose under any circumstances encrypted with scrypt, just in case I happen to lose my private... |
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sulami |
Security & Cryptography
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28-06-2015, 06:07 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Podcast ideas and talks
Post: RE: Nixers Podcast ideas and talks
| (07-06-2015, 01:12 PM)z3bra Wrote: Sooo.. there are less and less people showing up at the meetup every week. Maybe that's due to the time of the meetup. Is that too early? Would you guys be more li... |
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sulami |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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07-06-2015, 02:52 PM |
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Thread: What's your oldest piece of hardware that's still alive?
Post: RE: What's your oldest piece of hardware that's st...
| You're old :D
My oldest piece of hardware that is still in use is a NEC Multisync XV15, a 15" monitor built in '94 according to the label. Still works fine. I almost threw it away last year with a bu... |
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sulami |
Old school stuff
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06-06-2015, 06:27 AM |
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Thread: Post your ringtone
Post: RE: Post your ringtone
| Because phone speakers suck and this beauty sounds on my phone pretty much excactly like on my stereo (also memories):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9STiQ8cCIo0 |
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sulami |
Off topic
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05-06-2015, 05:34 PM |
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Thread: Uses for Rasperry Pi
Post: RE: Uses for Rasperry Pi
| (31-05-2015, 05:00 PM)RoastPotatoes Wrote: Already that seems quite impressive. I have the old one with 256MB as well as the new one, which I think has around 500. Does it really run that well? I in... |
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sulami |
Hardware talk
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01-06-2015, 08:56 AM |
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Thread: Uses for Rasperry Pi
Post: RE: Uses for Rasperry Pi
| I currently have a model B (the old one with 256MB) at home with an uptime of almost 500 days. It is used to share an external drive to the network, serves some static pages to the web and is a gamese... |
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sulami |
Hardware talk
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31-05-2015, 03:27 PM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| It's not like I should have time for ricing, but it's 2 am and I am bored. Don't judge my stream choice, Twitch is dead right now and I need someone talking to me to stay sane.
[Image: http://i.imgur... |
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sulami |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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03-03-2015, 09:27 PM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| Conky can actually be quite a nice bar.
[Image: http://i.imgur.com/aOYqsla.png] |
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sulami |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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01-07-2014, 09:17 AM |
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Thread: Show us your first scrots!
Post: RE: Show us your first scrots!
| I think this is the earliest one I still have, from early 2012. Fedora 16 with Xfce. Even back then I prepared my configs in VMs before porting them to my machine.
[Image: http://i.imgur.com/Q9SdYw1.... |
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sulami |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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18-06-2014, 05:00 PM |