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Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
| I'm still using Fira Code Mono, like so many others here. |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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21-01-2024, 05:17 AM |
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Thread: Rocky's Sketchbook
Post: RE: Rocky's Sketchbook
| Welcome back!
(20-01-2024, 12:14 PM)rocx Wrote: feel like getting back into shitposting with visual diarrhea for the unwashed masses to suffer through.I wouldn't say no to that! Keep us posted.
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20-01-2024, 12:24 PM |
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Thread: Cyber hunt
Post: RE: Cyber hunt
| That's epic!
I've been waiting for your scavenger/cyber hunt for a while. |
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18-10-2023, 08:26 AM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| (16-09-2023, 09:56 PM)ckester Wrote: The biggest advantage of CLIs is probably their scriptability.
Then why not both, and have something like what is proposed in these two thread here and here. Scr... |
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BSD
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17-09-2023, 01:32 AM |
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Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
| (04-09-2023, 02:01 PM)80x24 Wrote: Here's the build plan:What's a "build plan", it's the first time I encounter this when it comes to fonts. Is it something specifically related to iosevka or it's a... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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05-09-2023, 03:49 AM |
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Thread: What do your usernames mean?
Post: RE: What do your usernames mean?
| (04-09-2023, 01:53 PM)80x24 Wrote: 80x24 doesn't need explaining :)Hence the question that follows: Do you use these values as your terminal and text editor setup? |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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05-09-2023, 01:51 AM |
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Thread: XDG_CONFIG_HOME as ~/etc
Post: RE: XDG_CONFIG_HOME as ~/etc
| It's always a good idea for a tidier home to override the XDG directories. It's easier to do with the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file or whatever is the default $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but then it'll be a... |
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Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related
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02-09-2023, 09:39 AM |
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Thread: What's everyone's daily driver device?
Post: RE: What's everyone's daily driver device?
| I've also been on the same machine for quite a while, and it serves me well. An Acer Aspire V5-551 A8, 6GB ram.
(09-08-2023, 12:59 PM)movq Wrote: 32 GB of RAM was a lot backI still think it's quite... |
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Hardware talk
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10-08-2023, 04:23 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| Pretty minimal! Can you share more info on the WM and what you're running? |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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03-06-2023, 11:15 AM |
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Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: RE: industry buzzwords
| Buzzwords are not there for you, they're there to appease marketing teams and confuse competing companies making them feel like they're not ahead of the curve.
I've always wondered whether these tren... |
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15-11-2022, 05:29 AM |
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Thread: Historical GUI Websites
Post: RE: Historical GUI Websites
| that's a really nice find!
I especially like the ads and the tutorials, they're perfect to give you a general feeling of the OS or software and how it was perceived at the time. I'd be curious of what... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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11-10-2022, 03:42 AM |
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Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management
| (06-10-2022, 12:55 PM)jkl Wrote: gopassThis one: https://www.gopass.pw/ ?
(06-10-2022, 12:55 PM)jkl Wrote: files are (necessarily?) named like the passwords (often = like the websites) is a red f... |
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Security & Cryptography
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07-10-2022, 10:52 AM |
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Thread: What spoken languages do you know?
Post: RE: What spoken languages do you know?
| (02-10-2022, 12:51 PM)kuba Wrote: My first post here.Hello there, welcome!
That's a lot of languages. |
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02-10-2022, 01:54 PM |
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Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
| Hello there!
Welcome to nixers.
(04-09-2022, 01:15 PM)ckester Wrote: Welcome, and thanks for keeping those old laptops out of the landfill!If I remember there was a thread about the oldest hardware... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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04-09-2022, 02:50 PM |
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Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: RE: What Do You Do for a Living
| This sounds like an amazing retirement plan. |
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25-08-2022, 01:56 AM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| (23-08-2022, 04:12 AM)ckester Wrote: For example, is the license or programming language an important criterion for you?The license for me is a bonus factor, as long as I can read the code and that ... |
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BSD
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23-08-2022, 05:11 AM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
| (02-05-2022, 09:52 AM)pfr Wrote: Dont think this ones been done yet..?
I know this one, but I'll just give a hint because I was coincidentally adding a link to their website for next week's newslett... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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02-05-2022, 10:01 AM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
| https://512kb.club/
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/cfdLwy0.png] |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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26-04-2022, 07:02 AM |
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Thread: webzine
Post: RE: webzine
| (23-04-2022, 06:36 AM)josuah Wrote: A two-column layout was just added to The Gopher Times (troff-based): https://gopherproxy.net/bitreich.org/9/t...-opus4.pdf
I had a blast reading this! These are ... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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23-04-2022, 06:56 AM |
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Thread: Yet another self-introduction
Post: RE: Yet another self-introduction
| Welcome to nixers!
That's a lot of machines, are you using them all, on a home network? |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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20-04-2022, 09:20 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (17-04-2022, 05:26 PM)adi Wrote: the web site for my static site generator mkws
The name is really well-chosen. However, I got a tip, you're sharing the binaries in a tgz file directly but I can't f... |
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Programming On Unix
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18-04-2022, 02:26 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (17-04-2022, 12:28 PM)akoizumi Wrote: [2]: https://git.patchysicp.xyz/novaburst/ayu
That's very nice and straight forward, it seems many persons are building their own password management tools. It ... |
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Programming On Unix
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17-04-2022, 01:03 PM |
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Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter
| (25-03-2022, 09:57 AM)VMS Wrote: I'm interested in a newsletter; didn't even know this was a thing, as I'm rather new here. Is there an atom feed available?There's an RSS feed: https://newsletter.ni... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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25-03-2022, 10:28 AM |
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Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter
| After a long while, I'm announcing that we're going to be restarting the newsletter. Feel free to send contributions and propose ideas if you have any.
It would also be nice to merge the concept with ... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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25-03-2022, 05:14 AM |
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Thread: Syntax help error
Post: RE: Syntax help error
| You're right, the size is in pt and the help is misleading on what the actual output will look like.
XX-Large
It's better to use text instead of numbers, such as:
Code:[size=xx-small]XX-Small[/size]... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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11-03-2022, 12:17 PM |
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Thread: Recommended UPS?
Post: RE: Recommended UPS?
| Before installing solar panels I used any random UPS that had been thrown away. I'd modify it to remove the noise it makes when it's on power supply, connect the internal circuit to a 150amp truck bat... |
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Hardware talk
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08-03-2022, 12:00 PM |
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Thread: Share your file-opener script
Post: RE: Share your file-opener script
| There's a discussion on lobsters related to this. An interesting custom solution is this one from vermaden. |
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Programming On Unix
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07-03-2022, 02:47 AM |
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Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands
| (28-02-2022, 11:48 AM)DECnet Wrote: I like to have per-session historyWhat's your process to search in the history file? Do you purge old files also?
For many the histfile is a huge source of knowl... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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01-03-2022, 06:04 AM |
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Thread: Audio and music on Unix
Post: RE: Audio and music on Unix
| What I personally use is still a combination of mpd and client interfaces such as ncmpcpp. I like the whole architecture of having a server manage the music library and be able to interact with it fro... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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23-02-2022, 02:45 AM |
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Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: RE: What do you use as a system monitor
| On that note, I also forgot I have a script for battery status that pops up at certain intervals.
It's running as a systemd user timer (~/.config/systemd/user/timers.target.wants).
The timer unit
Code... |
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Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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13-02-2022, 05:49 AM |
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Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: What do you use as a system monitor
| Hello nixers,
Here's a simple thread: What do you use as a system monitor and do you have recommendations.
I normally go for htop and top but I'm looking to broaden my horizons.
Be sure to mention t... |
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Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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10-02-2022, 01:22 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Alright, last two chapters of the book!
# Chapter 13
This chapter is about building a file server using P9 proto.
It starts by describing disk devices, devices defined as `/dev/sd*`.
The driver ca... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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08-01-2022, 04:27 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Book club time, happy new year.
# Chapter 11
A chapter about threads and channels.
Threads are independent of processes and so they have their own threadID.
I think we call that user-level threads ... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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01-01-2022, 05:16 AM |
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Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: RE: What Do You Do for a Living
| Let's kick this off!
I work in a company that specializes in remotely configuring devices. This is mainly about telecom handsets/sims and routers.
We have components that plug into the network nodes ... |
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23-12-2021, 07:14 AM |
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Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: What Do You Do for a Living
| Hello fellow nixers,
What do you do for a living, or have done?
A lot of members work in different fields, some not even in tech-related field. There's quite the diversity of fields. It's good to sha... |
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23-12-2021, 07:13 AM |
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Thread: Retrospective 2021
Post: RE: Retrospective 2021
| (19-12-2021, 03:45 PM)seninha Wrote: Weirdly, this small school project of mine got popular and there was a course using it.That's really cool, I like the serendipity of life.
On the retrospective,... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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23-12-2021, 06:10 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Let's resume the book club.
# Chapter 9
Chapter 9 wasn't very exxeptional, most of it was about learning regex
related stuff.
there's a typo that hits hard in 9.4:
Quote:There is another tool is us... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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18-12-2021, 12:14 PM |
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Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary
| Dear UNIX diary,
Today I learned, because it's good to be humble, that IPv6 addresses can be built automatically from the mac address (something called EUI-64). I'm wondering if this isn't too much ... |
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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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17-12-2021, 03:49 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
| (11-12-2021, 06:25 AM)seninha Wrote: I have been rewriting some of my C programs into higher-level languages.
I think normally, in a perfect hypothetical scenario, people would go the opposite route... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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11-12-2021, 06:43 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
| (06-12-2021, 06:09 PM)movq Wrote: Then I had a look at your repos and saw that you completed this super fast. What the heck, I feel dumb.Frankly, this has nothing to do with "smartness", most of the... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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07-12-2021, 02:44 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
| (05-12-2021, 05:54 AM)movq Wrote: This really promotes “quick and dirty” solutions. Hmm.This could be said about all these interview-like programming challenges such as hackerrank/leetcode. They're ... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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05-12-2021, 06:11 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Time for the book club review and discussion.
## Chapter 7
This chapter was captivating because it tackled aspects that I'm not
used to.
Here are some notes:
- The environment variables are cached ... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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04-12-2021, 05:25 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderbord
| I'm going to join the leaderboard this year. It's a fun way to hone my rusty algorithms skills.
For those wondering, the leaderboard code above is still valid, so reuse it. |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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30-11-2021, 03:10 AM |
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Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
| Quote:I've noticed that I can't frame myself as specialist in anything
I'm still not a specialist in anything, and can't seem to get into any particular topic. Thus, I can't find a job position.
(2... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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30-11-2021, 02:48 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
| Time for the book club discussion.
Chapter 5 and 6 were interesting because they started to give an overview
of the decoupled, decentralized, architecture of Plan 9. They also
emphasize the strong en... |
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