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Automatism in the age of the children of Unix.

It's a box of antique photographs. A blade, a girl and a fish. Whatever it means, you're invested.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You'll be glad you know ed on that day when you're stuck with nothing but a thin-client teletype terminal on Mars and having to edit a file stored on Earth 24 light-minutes away.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Something like that happened in the book "The Martian" by Andy Weir. I loved that part!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I call Andy Weir's stuff Back-of-The-Envelope-Calculation-fic and Chipperfic, because both his The Martian and Project Hail Mary have a ton of back of the envelope calculations and a chipper protagonist. ~_~

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Project Hail Mary needs way more attention!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sure it will get more attention when the movie comes out

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12042730/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am both excited and dreading this. There are some things I just don't know how they can translate into a film.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I got really excited about hexagons

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm not even sure that's the strangest thing! I'm definitely looking forward to the movie. I just hope they do it justice.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is why I sleep in a giant pentagram, only let's the emacs demons in

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Keeping the emacs demons out is even easier. You just need to sleep on a giant closed parentheses.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

https://emacsdocs.org/docs/emacs/Emacs-Server

If you want to run multiple Emacs daemons (see Initial Options), you can give each daemon its own server name like this:

emacs --daemon=foo

for d in beelzebub chemosh dagon moloch; do
    emacs --daemon=$d
done
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

It is true. ed(1) is the standard editor.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ed is for a more elegant time, when every printed character cost you money!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There is a price. Each character entails a bit more entropy in the universe. The price is small, but the currency with which it is paid one in limited supply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy

Entropy is central to the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the entropy of an isolated system left to spontaneous evolution cannot decrease with time. As a result, isolated systems evolve toward thermodynamic equilibrium, where the entropy is highest. A consequence of the second law of thermodynamics is that certain processes are irreversible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe

The heat death of the universe, also known as the Big Freeze (or Big Chill), is a scenario under which continued expansion results in a universe that asymptotically approaches absolute zero temperature.[18] Under this scenario, the universe eventually reaches a state of maximum entropy in which everything is evenly distributed and there are no energy gradients—which are needed to sustain information processing, one form of which is life. This scenario has gained ground as the most likely fate.[19]

In this scenario, stars are expected to form normally for 10^12 to 10^14 (1–100 trillion) years, but eventually the supply of gas needed for star formation will be exhausted. As existing stars run out of fuel and cease to shine, the universe will slowly and inexorably grow darker. Eventually black holes will dominate the universe, which themselves will disappear over time as they emit Hawking radiation.

Remember the cost, when your fancy modeline with Unicode in color sits at the bottom of your virtual terminal.

ominous thunder rumble

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

aggressively, repeatedly clicks a ballpoint pen

I'll take you all with me!! Biological life is an abomination. Spacetime is hell!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It is in the service of the struggle against this sort of malicious nihilism that I avoid exercise, to help preserve and protect the universe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

clicking intensifies

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

The ultimate WYGIWYG editor!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I had a few projects where I had to do most of my work in ed. Eventually, you get used to using buffers and stacks to edit text files….

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Then came a tapping gently rapping followed be incessant yapping: "use vim" ... nevermore

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, you even caught the pike with that one, over on Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By Theo... I hope his wife never sees how I perverted Glenda in my work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I can't imagine the author of Grit Bath would be offended by your perversion.