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For real. Ask. Anything.
Write a comment and I'll add the question and the answer to this post. Comments can be anonymous, and even if you put your email I don't store it anywhere, it's only used for avatars (using Gravatar).
"Fingersmith" by Sarah Waters. There is an amazing screen adaption as well, directed by Park Chan-wook.
Definitely the fqa[1] first when it comes to installation and usage. qwx's posts[2] and sl's stuff[3] might be useful too. Then there are several groups that you can join to get some grasp of what's cookin', maybe learn something and get answers, which are 9gridchan[4], 9fans discord[5] and #cat-v on freenode (I am not a member of discord nor #cat-v anymore).
Seems like most people do that by reading K&R, so I'd say that's the way.
tl;dr use both GNU/Linux and 9front.
There are a few ways to go here, listed in no particular order.
All these options may involve connecting to GNU/Linux using a combination of `ssh(1)` and `vt(1)` in a script like so:
#!/bin/rc vt -rab 'ssh -r <LINUX_HOSTNAME> tmux new-session -A -s 9front'
I myself use 9front running in a VM on OpenBSD or another one running on a desktop (when I have access to it) to write code (eg Java or Haskell). The idea is to use 9front as a full blown development environment.
Definitely SICP[9] for programming in general. Learn you a Haskell[10] might be worth a try even if you don't plan to program in Haskell later, it might teach many functional programming aspects.
It's very simple and provides a lot of freedom (including the freedom to shoot yourself in the foot ofc). It's fast to (cross)compile programs in C, on any platform. Plan 9 C specifically is much better standard library-wise than POSIX so that is also a factor.
It was constant practice and my work involved a lot of low level embedded programming so that helped as well. Later on switching to backend development made me keep C as my hobby and as a refuge for my mind of some sort, where I don't have to deal with the "amazing technology" of today.
Now when I want to do anything I evaluate the possibility of doing that in 9front, and if it requires writing a new program there is a high chance I'm going to do that, and it will be in C.
There is really not much to recommend beyond writing a lot of C, trying different solutions to the same problem to figure out the ones you like the most. One (perhaps uncommon) suggestion I have though: learn one functional programming language, it will help you reason better and might even change the way you write C a bit (to the better).
Mostly writing backend services in Go atm.
I don't want Spotify to become The Music just as I don't want Google to become The Internet, it's not a good place. It's impossible for small artists to get paid for their art on platform like Spotify. I want to be able to pay the artist for something I genuinely like, and so far the best way to do that was to buy their music in physical form (vinyl, tapes) or get their merch. Even downloading tracks in high quality from Bandcamp is better than nothing (Spotify).
Spotify desktop application degraded significantly over the years, to the point of being absolutely unusable. Using it with your local tracks is just terrible. There is no way to run Spotify on any low resource platforms like Raspberry Pi unless you're willing to use unofficial clients that might stop working at any point because the company will just feel like dropping support for yet another protocol for no apparent reason.
I do, but very selectively. Considering the skew, I'd say horror fiction would be my favorite genre.
A black hole would win any fight.
None anymore. Perhaps Mastodon is the closest to forums that I still read. Otherwise I prefer online chat with specific groups of people.
I like the nature, the air. Not so much the cold that lasts for too long.
I love Allemansrätt[11] because I like being outdoors a lot.
I'm not a huge fan of the language. I hate Swedish politics, racism (yes it's all there, despite someone telling you otherwise) and white-cis-centristic ignorance. Swedish laws regarding any mind-altering substances (such as alcohol as well) and snus do not make any sense whatsoever. I only have hope for younger generations.
No. I want to get a grid layout keyboard and experiment a bit though.
9gridchan[12]. Topics do not necessarily include Plan 9 at all times.
Yes. With Swedish and Russian layouts.
It's VGA[14]. Default font in 9front.
I usually switch to something else (for a few days perhaps), then try again. That clears up the mind from the past assumptions and forces me to kind of "restart" so I might notice something new (or old, if that's a bug lol).
A stand mixer, coffee grinder, coffee maker, analog camera, amplifier.
I'd say most favourite would be BioShock series. In general I play(ed) shooters mostly, so the list is long. Quake 1 and 2 are great, Half-Life 1 and 2, Unreal Tournament 99, Left For Dead 2, RTCW.
Beyond shooters I really liked Warcraft 2 and Starcraft, Don't Starve Together, Need For Speed Underground.
Backgammon, Barjis (Syrian version of Pachisi), Clue, Luxor, Game of Thrones, of the ones I have.
Yeah, I write a lot of code in Go. I'm not a huge fan tbh (after going through functional programming) but then again I'd pick Go over any JVM-based one. It is worth learning. It's very simple and prototyping anything in it is very fast.
No.
On a more serious note:
If your work requires very fast and low resource applications running natively and there is absolutely no way you want to do it in C or Go, sure, try Rust. Otherwise: just say no.
Reason to use Rust: if you want to become popular and get lots of stars on GitHub, followers on Twitter etc etc, start doing useless rewrites and periodically post "C is insecure!"-style "infosec"-kind of quotes on social media. That seems to work for many people. And please don't forget to use an anime girl avatar, that is very important.
Instructions given to the computer, either through a compiler or interpreter or anything else, to be executed.
I'm not sure I'm good at explaining that, but here we go. With functional programming you (usually) don't care about the "global state", as there is none. Every function's result depends only on the arguments passed to it. Types in functional programming language like Haskell and OCaml won't let you add strings with numbers, or integers with fractions, they won't let you have a basic list with values of different types. These languages have strong type systems that do not allow common mistakes that many other PLs do. There are no pointers like in C, no `NULL` or `nil`, no memory (de)allocation, ie less things to care about. No sudden "goto" or "return" or "continue" in random places inside a function, the code flow is top-to-bottom.
In functional programming you can combine functions together into new ones. You can pass some of the arguments to get another function: `f(x,y,z)` → `g(z) = f(2,3,z)`, so you call `g(4)` instead of `f(2,3,4)`.
If there is no comment, it's not really a comment.
I haven't dived into that, but looks a bit too isolationist for my liking. Looking at who was involved from the start doesn't make it any better.
Sam has a few things that most people might be missing as it was added later to 9front but never existed in any other variants. Namely `C-b` (I added it in 2014) to go to command window, `C-g` to focus on text window (and switch between zeroxed windows), `_` and `^` to provide some kind of IDE-like fast shortcuts (added this in 2014 as well). This does save quite a lot on mouse movement and typing. Sometimes I do `C-a` and `left` or `C-e` and `right` to quickly go to next line but apart from that I didn't feel the need to add more shortcuts to avoid mouse use. I use a trackpoint on my laptop so I might be a bit biased here, but I use a mouse on my desktop as well, and although it's not as fast as with a trackpoint, I got used to it.
There is also vim port[16] that is available through "ports" (which I never used myself).
When it comes to rio, I always felt fine with that one, but have been missing on some stuff so made riow[17] to keep as many windows as I want without having to resort to nested rios nor `winwatch`.
If something is one-time write and use, or a internet-facing server, I pick Go. If it's something very simple and can be done with a small shell scripts, I use `sh` or `rc`. Otherwise (beyond rare exceptions) it's always C for me. Considering it's specifically 9front's C, things are very easy.
Hi! My email is ftrvxmtrx at gmail, feel free to bother :)
Somewhat explained here[18].
tl;dr I got sick of the way Mastodon and other social networks feel empty and emotionless, and full of self-promotion and "I'm gonna start talking about it because it's popular to talk about!".
I'm hanging out on #merveilles at freenode and 9gridchat[19].
Anything for Plan 9. Go feels very much alien on Plan 9, especially when it comes to anything UI-based, which is what I'm doing these days mostly.
Years ago (probably somewhere in 2007-2008) one of my friends showed me Plan 9. I didn't get into it at the time, can't remember the reason really. After that I successfully forgot its existence until the message of uriel's passing in go-nuts mailing list. That was 2012. Then I discovered cat-v and 9front and on it went.
First I ran it in QEMU, but at some point switched to native after figuring out I could actually fix things that didn't work natively. After a bit of acme I switched to sam, which I'm still using.
9front[20]
OpenBSD[21]
OpenBSD usually has drawterm running in fullscreen mode, so...
First, Bristol. Then New Zealand (NOT in a big city).
Galaxy far far away... To be honest, Greenland, Iceland, South Pole, Japan, New Zealand.
USA, UAE, Russia.
I was a hardcore user of Emacs. My config file was compiling itself for fast loading.
Same way as C, I didn't read any books, just started writing the stuff I need in it.
I use a square-ruled notebook to organize my thoughts when I'm working on something complex. I put various events onto a whiteboard because there is no way I'm gonna remember them otherwise. I add alarms on my phone to remind of things.
I don't use the computer to organize myself.
English, Russian, Belarusian, a bit of Swedish. I might understand a few more, but can't really speak.
I'd like to learn German, Italian, Japanese and Māori.
C, Go, Erlang, OCaml, Haskell, Forth, Scheme, awk, z80/mips/amd64/m68k assembly, Faust, ChucK.
May I suggest going to sleep instead? :D
Not annoyed at all.
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