adriveatrain
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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
You can use any indexing scheme you like now.
Arrays can start at [-100] if you feel like it.
Comment · 7 years ago
It does undermine the value logistics / delivery companies provide to the customers.
An industry that works on 3% margins already.
Comment · 7 years ago
Are you sure it's not because they are the obvious things?
Comment · 7 years ago
> making community college and trade school level degrees free
that's a tax on the non-attendees, why should they pay for your education when it significantly raises your earning potential?
Comment · 7 years ago
A screwdriver
A pillar drill
A MIG Welder + Mask
A chop saw + cutting disc
A pipe bender
Some spray
You must have really expensive tool shops round your way
Comment · 7 years ago
Plan9 has multiple native web browsers, Mothra, Abaco & Charon. You could run Opera in Linux emulation mode and also use VNC to another machine.
Did you see the part where I was a website devops for 10 years using Plan9?
Comment · 7 years ago
Plan9 was far superior as a developer's system. It's text based tools are the best, bar none. But really it owes that to Project Oberon.
"Everything is a file" as an abstraction enables you to build really powerful through composition. e.g. running TCP/IP over a serial connection just by mounting files in certain places.
Your end user program doesn't need to know anything about networking, it just reads from files.
this is an irc bot written in shell script
http://proweb.co.uk/~matt/chugly.rc
It's not perfect, of course, it had problems with throughput - we were forever discussing at conferences how to improve the protocol to implement streaming.
I describe it as a racing car, not everyone can drive it, you need to work to keep it going, you might kill yourself but when you're out front, it feels amazing.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/13/jeremy-kyle-take...