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@apicultor @q66 @wyatt8740 @Okanogen @dashdsrdash @jnpn @ariadne @bremner Hell, even illumos & macOS have jettisoned SysV init without making everyone furious.

Possibly because smf & launchd have well defined boundaries that haven’t grown continuously.

@ryanc I’d love to hear what NVR you end up with. I’m leaning toward Synology, but I keep flipping whether a DIY Frigate setup is reasonable. Pretty certain not Luma.

@alanc @dalias Since doing golang work, I’ve started committing the generated artifacts. Yes, it’s wasteful of storage and dev attention when everything works, but I’ve had too many surprises from diffs due to generator tooling change.

I haven’t gotten so bad as to vendor all dependencies in repo, but some days I think hard about it.

@alanc @dalias Oh, I forgot the most important point: build automation attempts to regenerate the artifacts and fails if they aren’t identical. Because then the generated work acts as a test case for the generator as well.

@rogersm @alanc @dalias I’ve taken over maintenance of more than a few projects because I care about keeping existing systems running.

But autotools is one of those things that sounds horrible to rework while backwards compatible.

Another thing that terrifies me is posix shell, and the smoosh research in to a correct parser shows how painful back compat can be: http://shell.cs.pomona.edu

@ryanc Pics or didn’t happen

@ryanc Oh but I do!

https://github.com/josephholsten/hig

Is yours public so I can steal ideas?

@goatsarah Reminds me of an old explanation of the term “trolling” as in “trolling for fish” but “trolling for newbies”.

I hope you get a bountiful catch and a full blocklist!

@inthehands @mcc This reminds me of the first piece of code I submitted after transferring to a new university. I confirmed I could use any language on the lab machines, and they had ruby (before rails)!
So I knew the TA wouldn’t know anything about it, I made a README with simple instructions. Run the command:

$ ./runme.rb

I flunked the assignment. The TA reported the following error:

bash: $: command not found

@ariadne BUT MEMORY SAFETY WOULD STOP SQL INJECTION AND CROSS SITE SCRIPTING AND PEOPLE FROM THE IRS CALLING MY HOUSE DEMANDING LATE PAYMENT FINES IN GOOGLE PLAY GIFT CARDS AND CAPS LOCK

@goatsarah That sounds authentically USian.

@evan Will you be seed saving?

This was my first year attempting. I definitely failed recovering seeds on some, and will have to see next year’s results on the ones that weren’t complete failures.

Don’t mind me, I’m just wondering how get my a USB-C hub to work with #freebsd & #illumos and trying to understand how the driver-chipset-device relationship works with USB & Thunderbolt controllers.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/lectures/L05_xHCI.pdf

I love this syllabus.

“if it is spring semester and you are planning to graduate, a first-year drama student auditing the class might not make the best partner for you.”

I want to be the first year drama student auditing a senior level operating systems practicum.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/syllabus.html

@goatsarah “Well, you asked for ‘plumbing’! How was I supposed to know you actually wanted pexing and coppering?”

@goatsarah Hello, present occupier!

@encthenet @feld Drives me crazy, especially during spring cleaning when I’m wanting to get rid of my least useful cables.

I’ve been wondering how much it would cost to get a cable testing rig. The power testing gear is cheap (<$50), but I haven’t found bandwidth testing gear that seems reputable.

@encthenet @feld We need to beat this price: https://www.totalphase.com/products/advanced-cable-tester-v2/

@goatsarah This is what everyone (US) says we should do to pay our child minder. People are terrible.

@lorddimwit @jwz You’ve discovered your text editor isn’t a sufficiently robust IDE. So you switch to emacs. Now you have two problems.