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Is it supposed to be “LOCAL” but mirrored right to left, or upside down?
It’s interesting to me that Debian has this image of long time between releases. Mint for example is based on Ubuntu LTS which releases every 2 years, but I haven’t seen the same jokes about Mint.
Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. I trust their design decisions.
pmkto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is something other people seem to grasp easily that eludes you?
1·1 个月前One time I told my friend who teaches macro economics that I found a math thing difficult. He answered “I also find math hard, especially when they mix numbers into it.” and I had one of those “we are not the same”-moments.
If Sephora ever decides to make their own operating system, I hope they base it on Fedora. It kind of rhymes, and has a similar scent.
Ken Thompson famously said “if you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there”, but it remains an open question if “goto sephora;” should still be considered harmful.
In “The UNIX Programming Environment” from 1984, mail is described like this:
“Sending mail to someone is straightforward. Suppose it is to go to the person with the login name nico.
$ mail nico
Now type in the text of the letter
on as many lines as you like…
After the last line of the letter
type a control-d.
ctl-d
$”
I tend to think in terms of 1 function that is meaningful for composability. The point in having small tools is that they can be combined in new ways, not just small programs for its own sake. To me it makes sense if you think of Unix itself as both the IDE and the system carrying out the purpose of the machine. We’ve gradually moved away from this though.
pmkto
Rant•opinion: lemmy instances - should disclose basic hardware and infrastructure in "about" section. Most lemmy instances cant afford to have non-text usersEnglish
2·2 个月前I’d trust servers that have been around for a couple of years and have a significant amount of active users more than the ones that pop up and disappear. Preferably maintained by a team with routines and stated policies. That said, there are no guarantees.
I like it. “A” should look like a bulls head, as was originally intended. We’re the ones using the letter upside down.
Sadly I don’t know much about formal logic, but I choose to believe you are correct.



















Have you tried immutable leap 16.1? If so, what’s it like?