`info foo | less` is a better info reader than `info foo`

There is an English dictionary of fuck called The F Word

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_F-Word_(book)

The BSDs use nvi which is a clone of vi from about 1990.

You might encounter Bill Joy’s vi on a Solaris or illumos machine.

Kessler satellites

> there's basically no reason you'd ever want an alkaline battery except cost

Rechargeable batteries are much cheaper than disposable single-use batteries.

Real hat riots in 1922 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Hat_Riot

If anyone remembers Serial Mom, Kathleen Turner kills Patty Hearst, for wearing white after Labor Day.

Functions are partial in most programming languages, so the fact that arrays are best modelled as partial functions (rather than total functions) isn’t a huge obstacle.

Yeah, in languages with effects (exceptions/panics). That is a bit more than a partial function though.

Most of the performance regressions are due to lots of dynamic reconfigurability at runtime, which isn’t needed for portability to ancient systems. (Although OpenSSL is written in C it has a severe case of dynamic language envy, so it’s ironic that the pyca team want a less dynamic crypto library.)

I use https://pagefind.app/ for search on my website. It’s really easy to add to a static site.

It isn’t on-die, the ram is separate chips in the same package. See the pics about halfway down https://www.apple.com/de/newsroom/2023/10/apple-unveils-m3-m...