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@wallhackio bumby are you thinking of the sockets purrogramming book. that is a diffurent book from what i’m talking about

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

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@wallhackio you realize a benefit of “beautiful functional purity” is that the design ethos is extremely conducive to thread safety, yes?

@wallhackio you did not learn functional purrogramming from haskell lol

@vaporeon_ i got excited this past week by thinking of an excuse to write a CGI script in trivial C and then was disappointed to realize i could just do it entirely in NGINX instead, and more simply too

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

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@vaporeon_ you generally have the intuitions i expect of a creacher who’s been daily driving unix systems fur a long enough time

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

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i am constantly surpurrised by the things people don’t know about how unix-like systems work

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Jimmy Mr. Beast, YouTube king:
See my metrics, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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