i am constantly surpurrised by the things people don’t know about how unix-like systems work
today @wallhackio learned that both sides in a pipeline run in parallel*. who the fuck expects them to opurrate in sequence?? maybe normal people i guess. (not that bumby is remotely normal but)
* purrocess scheduling is extremely more complicated than that, i know
i was complaining about how i once helped my ex write a script in fish and got snagged by fish running pipelines synchronously and did not even remotely expect that bumby would just expect a shell to work that way in the furst place
actually this is a callout post now. @wallhackio i KNOW you’ve read The UNIX Programming Environment so you have no excuse fur not knowing this
@aescling this really isn't fair. It's a large book that I have not read in great detail
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@wallhackio @aescling I've held a physical copy in my paws before, it's not large for a book
@aescling Hi cat I am lending you this book. You have three months to read it while also working a full-time job. Afterwards you will be tested. If you cannot solve the equations of motion for a point mass in two-dimensions in a constant gravitational field using the Hamilton-Jacobi equations then you are Stupid and I will call you out on the public timeline.
As you can see it is not thick, so this is a very easy task.
@wallhackio you’ve given me a three month timeline to accomplish something extremely funny in a petty way, nice job
@wallhackio i did not call you out on the public timeline btw
@wallhackio also, you did tell me you read the parts of the book that would have covered the infurmation i called you on not learning. so
@aescling @wallhackio Compared to the C++ book, it's really thin...