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> If you didn't fix it, it ain't fixed

AKA: “Problems that go away by themselves come back by themselves.”


> Rule 0: Don’t panic

“Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.”

I know this and still get caught out sometimes…

Edit: hahaha ‘Cerium saying ~same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683671


> It may not be mainstream enough for a daily driver

Horses for courses - it's my daily driver for development and administration. To be fair though, I relegate the vast majority of consuming the web to a mobile device.


> Horses for courses - it's my daily driver for development and administration.

Because OS doesn't really matter here. You can install the same packages and have the same workflow on any opensource unix OS.


> Because OS doesn't really matter here.

Arguably correct, but I really do like the NetBSD experience when I am dealing with the OS.


Firefox is in pkgsrc so I don't see it couldn't be used for general web consumption.

I think the only blocker might be the stuff requiring DRMs like streaming video services but since netbsd now supports VMs you could still run a linux vm for that.


I threw OpenBSD on my old laptop this year and it was workable except for DRM video and the fact that my bank evidently used user-agent sniffing to decide it didn't like Firefox on OpenBSD (but Firefox on Linux or Chromium on OpenBSD worked fine)



It's quite a common trick in airplanes. Someone drew a "50" over half of the Netherlands for the 50th anniversary of the flight school I teach at.

In airplanes it's not that hard. You can draw the route on your iPad on the ground, then load those GPS points into the plane via Bluetooth and fly it. A modern autopilot could even fly it for you, but you'd have to sit there being bored for a few hours.

If you do it at low altitude in uncontrolled airspace you're free to draw whatever you want. In controlled airspace you may get ATC interfering with your drawing. But even that can be coordinated, mapping companies do that all the time, fly very specific patterns in coordination with ATC.


My favorite one of these was the last 747 delivery flight


My dad got bored in the peak of the pandemic and wrote a name over Kentucky. https://imgur.com/a/ZBu2EYT



^-- mind atm the markup here is catching the poster by surprise. The math should read: 100*0.3 + 200*0.7 = 170.

Not 1000.3 + 2000.7

(escape the *, or it bounds an italic section - *this* becomes this. \*this\* becomes *this*.)


oops. should be fixed now


> starting life as a worm-like thing.

Not that different from a dragon fly[0], really. Most insects go through distinct metamorphosis[1]: egg -> larva -> pupae -> adult.

[0] https://media.australian.museum/media/dd/images/Some_image.w...

[1] https://www.amentsoc.org/insects/fact-files/life-cycles.html


I might stand corrected - my own citation lists dragonflies as incomplete metamorphosis. I guess it’s true that they don’t pupate, but I thought the juvenile was still striking enough to mention as not necessarily obviously a dragonfly.


> yup, WFC is exactly how it works

Not according to the 1 of the 2 that are the studio[0].

[0] https://x.com/h3r2tic/status/1695073463294120219


> There’s also Void [...]

Started[0] by NetBSDs (and Hacker News') own jmmv[1]. So if you're getting BSD vibes, now you know why.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_Linux?#History

[1] https://jmmv.dev/software/netbsd.html


Heh, not quite! Void Linux was started by the _other_ NetBSD developer from Spain: xtraeme.


D’oh!


> Tcl is basically a sloppier Perl

That’s a hot take for one language with basically a sheet to describe it[0], and another whose “rules” are best described by “whatever this implementation does.”

[0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Dodekalogue


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