Aristotle

I write code when I can’t help it.
I speak when the words come.
I observe.

[Aristotle @apag]

Life is but the fever dream of a slow fire.

[Aristotle @apag]

@polettix The real difference between ekeca and mkcert is the amount of users and maintainers. Of course this factor matters differently to a maintainer of one of these tools than to anyone else.

[Aristotle @apag]

@polettix rm "`mkcert -CAROOT`"/rootCA-key.pem` # 🙂

[Steven M. Bellovin @SteveBellovin]

Sad news from @unccs — Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago.

[Aristotle @apag]

@polettix Modern TLS evolves faster than it’s worth keeping up with. More efficient to outsource the effort to a tool like https://t.co/L7LRm0lMcU

[Aristotle @apag]

@drdrang This is clearly better conceptualised as depending on your frame of reference. So yes, from the perspective of a set of objects collectively orbiting the sun at earth’s distance, the moon is in fact orbiting the earth.

[Aristotle @apag]

@drdrang (Well, OK, there isn’t too much more structure at even greater scale where this can go to.)

[Aristotle @apag]

@isomer Perl-ese for “run the tests for this module”.

[Aristotle @apag]

git rebase --interactive --exec 'prove -l'

[Aristotle @apag]

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day, everyone.

[Aristotle @apag]

@Julian_O @LeaSkye40 Nah, “RA” is less clearly intelligible than “RAT” just because it’s awkward to pronounce. “AT Machine” would be more clearly intelligible than “ATM machine” IMO… if it were widely understood. Differs case by case; I don’t buy the redundancy argument.

[Aristotle @apag]

@theory https://t.co/bvyaZ7CVrP

[Aristotle @apag]

@polettix That’s just `system $command` with extra steps. The main use of the curly brace argument is to disable the default behaviour of system()/exec(): if you pass a single argument containing shell syntax, they invoke the shell. Which is was what you wanted in the first place…

[Aristotle @apag]

@polettix You can always enable both case sensitivity and bundling. My standard stanza for eons has been

use Getopt::Long 2.24 qw( :config bundling no_ignore_case no_auto_abbrev );

[Aristotle @apag]

@drdrang You can put identical marks on page 1–10 this way (1 1 10 → start, increment, last):

1 1 10 {
[ exch
/SrcPg exch
/RestOfKeys AndTheirValuesHere
/ANN pdfmark
} for

And if you don’t like the dangling open bracket, you can use the word `mark` synonymously.

[Aristotle @apag]

@daringfireball “Video is not rated. Log in to watch.”

[Benj Edwards @benjedwards]

@cabel Dare I say this experience sounds like a Soviet app review system: Centralized, bureaucratic, apathetic, slow, and subject to the whims of the few. And it takes special status to get anything fixed

[Aristotle @apag]

My iPhone 12 just got hot when I tried to create and fill a 6-cell table in Notes. Creating on iOS… (And more generally: technology in 2021 – hardware so amazing it provides a universe worth of headroom for the software to disappoint.)

[Aristotle @apag]

@drdrang (In unrelated notes, I appreciate you seizing the opportunity to employ 𝚠𝚌 -𝚠𝚌.)

[Aristotle @apag]

@drdrang This turns out to be shorter too (and fewer keystrokes, which, as we all know, is the measure of code 🙂), and while the backslashitis is annoying to look at, I find I can immediately read off what the code is that’s going to be executed, unlike the other examples.