Posts by tfb@functional.cafe
(DIR) Post #Aw1OoQ8E8KggP3EfHU by tfb@functional.cafe
2025-07-11T10:41:30Z
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Yesterday I did a bunch of mi-tempo and sprint swimming, which felt very good. Today my middle-aged body is trying to convince me we Desperately Need Calories. No no silly body, we're fine. Feel free to metabolise reserves if you'd like to make muscle though, that'd be grand
(DIR) Post #AwaX1a4SdcFQS1gjGi by tfb@functional.cafe
2025-07-28T09:34:48Z
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@brettm @chesheer Back when I used vi, I'm pretty sure I've more than once done: ESC i pause ESC i pause ESC i pause ESC i pause ESC i starts typing
(DIR) Post #AxcfbLDwTEQlDyDPbk by tfb@functional.cafe
2025-08-28T06:18:32Z
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@clacke Most fancy tea bags have been made of plastic in recent decades
(DIR) Post #AxiwnJyxmDWj1AGboG by tfb@functional.cafe
2025-08-31T08:37:06Z
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You can set autologout = 1 to add a feeling of time-pressure excitement to your tcsh sessionhttps://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@fbfortune/115118782429459788
(DIR) Post #Axoplr2ONCtmE8z3ZY by tfb@functional.cafe
2025-09-03T05:12:18Z
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@art Weird misspelling of Emacs, but otherwise a great guide 😸
(DIR) Post #Axt97dJClyVzmQmn1U by tfb@functional.cafe
2025-09-05T07:02:39Z
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@clacke That ought to terminate sessions owned by other users 😹
(DIR) Post #Ayj1eFetyhnqDeNGCm by tfb@functional.cafe
2025-09-30T07:08:13Z
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@clacke sometimes ? I struggle to remember the last time I encountered a case that was not that
(DIR) Post #AyptgZ5hGHC3XVDdPk by tfb@functional.cafe
2025-10-03T14:40:12Z
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@clacke I thought it peaked in 2003 (when I made my account) and died the following year (when I deleted said account)
(DIR) Post #Az8yaxtCL8PqUFlCq0 by tfb@functional.cafe
2025-10-12T20:16:45Z
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Meditation Dubhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0pWW5KVFw#NowPlaying
(DIR) Post #AzWzxpiTeiHHY0Fhx2 by tfb@functional.cafe
2025-10-24T07:55:34Z
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@koronkebitch Lambda magician
(DIR) Post #B06eiQhhigkxA8zdom by tfb@functional.cafe
2025-11-10T10:21:28Z
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@solidsanek I assume this is fake, but it's hilarious and the point still stands
(DIR) Post #B0Efhnw9IHdzpkzdnk by tfb@functional.cafe
2025-11-14T12:06:02Z
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@stefano They're calling Unix users "tech boomers" and apparently it's the BSD communities that are the toxic ones?!?!
(DIR) Post #B0nYPu2ZtPwJiuqsvw by tfb@functional.cafe
2025-12-01T07:58:55Z
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stolen content from WikipediaYou can't steal something if I give it to you for free. In this case, it seems the articles copied from Wikipedia correctly follow the license, so this is perhaps the single thing about grokipedia that should not be criticized.https://mastodon.green/@ronanmcd/115641162221045310
(DIR) Post #B22O6flfdqHX6f7XXc by tfb@functional.cafe
2026-01-07T08:53:18Z
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As an Emacs user, I spend a lot of time doing essentially tiled window management.Should I give a tiled WM or compositor another chance? I'll be trying out EXWM for sure, but any other suggestions particularly from Emacs users? X11 or Wayland are both fine.#Emacs #tilingwindowmanager
(DIR) Post #B2TDFKdLSOjRfrcZkG by tfb@functional.cafe
2026-01-20T08:12:09Z
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@clacke Common British spelling uses -ise and -lyse forms, but Oxford spelling insists on dying on the molehill of but in the original Greek pedantry thus -ize but -lyse. In particular, newspapers don't follow the pedantic Oxford style.
(DIR) Post #B2VYAH6FeeiucVUXwm by tfb@functional.cafe
2026-01-21T07:13:31Z
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@niconiconi The secret part they never want to say out loud is of course, "without spending time or money on it"
(DIR) Post #B2VYAIZiAbsnCAHaVM by tfb@functional.cafe
2026-01-21T07:16:18Z
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@niconiconi BTW, confirming your remark: my first paid programming job was to document a large system, and fix the Y2K and authorization bugs along the way.The little note on my CV that I'd maintained a fork of a binary-only DOS BBS, was apparently the most compelling part
(DIR) Post #B2Xr83v3yWjobjpwMi by tfb@functional.cafe
2026-01-22T13:57:13Z
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@clacke There are definitely newspaper style guides. To the extent that your needs overlap with a newspaper's, The Guardian's guide is perfectly fine (on their website). Hart's Rules is also fine, very book orientated, and is good at pointing out the elements of style about which one needs to take a decision.Generally, I find questions of style strangely fraught in English. There's the question of the many dialects, but also a systemic pedantry that aspires to the loathsome Académie française. So many style sections of dictionaries and style guides, will give rules that are not followed by the great writers in the language. Rather than cite T. S. Eliot and Virginia Wolf and William Faulkner and James Baldwin and so on, they'll make "rules" that none of those writers followed.The OED is mostly a decent counter-example, relying heavily on citations of known good works. But then, to answer your commentI don't know quite where the Greeks come inIf you look up the question of ise vs ize endings in the OED, you'll be treated to a pedantic discussion involving classical Greek, the letters iota zeta eta, Latinisation, Middle French, etc. So they go contrary to conventional British usage and make a weird pedantic argument. The peculiar style they advocate exists and is relatively common in certain circles, but is a bit of an elite aberration.
(DIR) Post #B2XrO7fDoxs8r25LxA by tfb@functional.cafe
2026-01-22T13:59:59Z
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@clacke Myself, I've long ago decided to just go with my idiosyncratic mid-Atlantic mishmash, and when trying to write more formally to just take a more Gallic approach and look at usage rather than "rules". My spelling in particular though is just an indefensible combination of valid English spellings (-:
(DIR) Post #B2eXpHM0ynmf4E2RbE by tfb@functional.cafe
2026-01-25T13:17:10Z
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@clacke No cidre? You should complain!