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Omar Rizwan @omar

it is funny how Python is just extensible enough syntax (with operator overloading, decorators, relatively simple toolchain?) and maybe occupies the right ecosystem niche (where systems programmers actually encounter it) that people do this DSL/retargeting stuff with it social.omar.website/@omar/statuses/01GREDGKX6R47R8VWTT0BSW6M4 while no one seems to try this kind of thing with Ruby or JavaScript

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Omar Rizwan @omar

Odd github.com/google/tmppy

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Omar Rizwan @omar

"a mild breeze of programming" scopes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/#a-mild-breeze-of-programming

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Omar Rizwan @omar

what if they had a web where instead of making an .html file that represents a document, you make a .hlml file that represents a link between documents, and documents themselves are just inferred from being pointed at by links and have no independent existence

> yeah baby now we're talkin

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Omar Rizwan @omar

its funny how the email is framed as a boring administrative procedure when this is actually a democratic vote!!!

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Omar Rizwan @omar

current reading -- floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html

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Omar Rizwan @omar

woah

Dynamic clocks

In addition to the hard-coded System-V style clock IDs described above, Linux also supports POSIX clock operations on certain character devices. Such devices are called "dynamic" clocks, and are supported since Linux 2.6.39.

Using the appropriate macros, open file descriptors may be converted into clock IDs and passed to clock_gettime(), clock_settime(), and clock_adjtime(2). The following example shows how to convert a file descriptor into a dynamic clock ID.
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Omar Rizwan @omar

does anyone ever make subprocesses whose address space is entirely contained in the parent process's address space

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Omar Rizwan @omar

notifications

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Omar Rizwan @omar

i was talking to people at dinner about my friend who was studying library science and his defense of (what i think of as) the 'library science point of view' on search

that correctness and relevance are really completely independent concepts, and search engines like Google are wrong to conflate those concepts by just giving you endless ranked results

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