Xah Lee
​coming on in a bit
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Nerdsville LLC
​Hey Xah :)

Nerdsville LLC
​What do you think about DragonflyBSD

Farzin Firouzi
CA$5.00

Do you have virtualbox? It would be nice if you could do a review of LARBS and explain why you hate tiling wm while using one.

Daniel Langlois
​hey

LeVon Schaftin
​get outta here /g/

Daniel Langlois
​madde a mint today on the stock market, using a new algorithm I wrote. This has possibilities.

KhwPp
​is steve jobs still secretly alive

LeVon Schaftin
​how much

Daniel Langlois
​just $500, but that was profit playing w/$10,000

Farzin Firouzi
CA$5.00

Xah, you speak with so much authority, but you haven't grown a beard.

Daniel Langlois
​Richard Stallman had a nightmare in the night, and it was today's apple. Not that I mind apple so much, but Stallman isn't out of touch with reality.

Farzin Firouzi
CA$5.00

Xah, did you watch Yisrael Dov L's response to your magit criticism?

Nerdsville LLC
​Isn’t emacs GNU software?

Farzin Firouzi
​Nerdsville, yesh

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​I've casually found this afternoon that emacs origins are rooted in the ITS operative system "editor", TECO

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​ITS, per se, it's a hack: The name stands for Incompatible TimeSharing System, just a quirky nod at another early timesharing os of that time, the CTSS (Compatible Time Sharing System)

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​really early, nerdy, geeky stuff

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​we're talking about first half of the seventies

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​IIRC

Gregory Buttocks
​Tips to deal with constipation

The Magpie
​hey man, it's been a while

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​can anybody link the discorrd? I'm not much a Discord guy but I'd like to join

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​omg, shorthand design in these times... she really likes like a hardcore enthusiast about the whole history of data registry tech

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​props to her

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​stenotyping is the shorthand script of modern times, the tech serves its purpose as its needed, and it's a really interesting world for us regular mortals

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​🙂

Nerdsville LLC
​I’ve never heard of stenography before…. Going to look into that

Nerdsville LLC
​Golang is amazing!

Farzin Firouzi
​@Nerdsville LLC Court reporters use it to copy what you say in court

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​the only way to register a whole session transcript in your everyday court

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​by a single person

rene
​old friends of mine always bugged me about not being into C and low level langs, functional programming and math oriented languages were always more my type even though im not an expert in them

The Magpie
​any tips on learning functional programming? I'd be down to try Haskell if need be. I'm using elixir atm to build personal projects. but I'd love to be able to leverage monad, moniods, functors etc

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​just cheaters 🤣 meanwhile regular typists bragging about WPM

rene
​@flo (i believe thats your name) xah's discord is linked on his site

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​@Farzin Firouzi yep, I think it's a global phenomenon, at least in western world justice systems it's a staple, here in spain i've seen them as long as i can remember

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​@rene thanks, yup you got it right, its a _stylized_ fL0p

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​S T Y L I Z E D 🥴

Farzin Firouzi
CA$5.00

I'll sponsor your LARBS review since I requested it 🙂

F F
​elixir doesn't have typeclass system tho

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​what a discovery, insta-subscribed to him

George
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rene
​rice is a term usually associated with the whole r/unixporn community

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​I've always associated with that first definition you read.... a ricer was what they called a poorly-embellished japanese small car driver

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​i think that it's a wordplay with racer as well

Gella Rald
​hi how are you

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​I heard rice(r) and Civic comes to my mind

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​🤓

Farzin Firouzi
​@Xah Lee your English is great. Especially your pronounciation of "Mode". Just kiddin' mmkay :)

Moch Deden
​Xah, do you have any opinion on luke smith ?

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​don't worry Xah, i'm just chatty today (not multitasking, just stuck to the stream in what was a "boring" friday night)

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​Uncle Ripster

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​the moses of the mechanical keyboard appreciation religion

George
​Xah Lee how is the larbs fatguy any uglier than the ergo emacs fat guy?

Farzin Firouzi
CA$5.00

to find one of your articles, just add "idiocy" to your query.

Farzin Firouzi
​wow, did he just say "idiocy" after my superchat? I'm psychic

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​😆

Farzin Firouzi
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​78 chars, I always had the idea of 80, i guess that the carriage return takes the extra two, gotta invest a while to delve into your unix-pestilence essays

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​yup, that's what I had as idea

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​not windows but early teletype displays

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​or whatever did set the limit in the day

George
A$2.99

Stop ranting, you're late! 🏃🏻‍♂️

Daniel Langlois
​ since the early days of terminals, the screen size was indeed mostly limited to 80 characters.

Dylan Conklin
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[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​RFC - Rant For Centuries

George
​Lol

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​as we like them here

Farzin Firouzi
CA$2.00

Xah secretly loves Unix and Linux.

Daniel Langlois
​Other languages, like German, with longer words, have optimal lines longer.

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​then we can only expect line lenghts in the hundreds for finnish early software

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​☺

Daniel Langlois
​Teletypes and typewriters were 80 character devices as well

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​I indeed appreciate PS a lot

Daniel Langlois
​In general shorter line lengths are better, because they really do make programs easier to read.

Farzin Firouzi
CA$5.00

Xah Lee ❤ Unix Philosophy

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​then ere you have me, in that day out of every two months I boot to Linux for some reason

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​@Daniel Langlois yup, but it scrambles today's output

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​it's nice to indent and tidy while coding

[̲̅ƒɟ]·[̲̅L]·[̲̅0]·[̲̅ק]
​but longer line output is needed

Xah Lee
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