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New comment by aslatter in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

aslatter — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:38:31 +0000

What is this supposed to be about? The link looks like some sort of star-chart, but I don't see where to get an explanation.

New comment by aslatter in "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover"

aslatter — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:44:52 +0000

"As I remember London": https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

New comment by aslatter in "Squashing my dumb bugs and why I log build IDs"

aslatter — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 02:39:04 +0000

tcc version 0.9.28rc returns "1", whatever that means.

New comment by aslatter in "Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)"

aslatter — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 19:00:13 +0000

I didn't invent this, but I have a headless "config" checkout, and have a git-alias which sets my home-directory as the work-tree:

   git init --bare $HOME/.config/repo
   alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.config/repo --work-tree=$HOME'
   config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Then I can do things like "config add", "config commit", and "config push".

New comment by aslatter in "Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?"

aslatter — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 02:08:04 +0000

I keep this clip open in a browser tab so I can go back to it from time-to-time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3NASGb5m8s

It's the same basic message from Jobs, but this time about Xerox.

New comment by aslatter in "Email and Git = <3"

aslatter — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:01:20 +0000

That is a pain, but the --update-refs argument to git-rebase helps somewhat: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#Documentation/git-rebase...

New comment by aslatter in "ZSTD 1.5.5 is released with a corruption fix found at Google"

aslatter — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 01:13:09 +0000

From my fopen(2) docs:

m (since glibc 2.3)

Attempt to access the file using mmap(2), rather than I/O system calls (read(2), write(2)). Currently, use of mmap(2) is attempted only for a file opened for reading.

New comment by aslatter in "Emotionless chatbots are taking over customer service"

aslatter — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 01:39:16 +0000

I was able to down-grade my subscription over email, which isn't as good as an on-line form, but better than a phone-call.