Mastodawn

Why am I downloading and installed ed(1) today?

A: mariadb-dump is generating SQL it cannot run. Also. The files are huge and just need one or two tweaks. vim hangs horribly opening the file because of its size. ed(1) just takes a nice pause when saving it, but is otherwise responsive and _fast_.

I love ed.

(Also. There are a lot of "modern" linux distros that don't install it by default. *glares in BSD user*)

@ed1conf

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Ed Cashin Jan 5

@dave_andersen I think I know what you mean, but I'm not a computer science professor, so an elaboration on your personal perspective would be appreciated. :)

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Ed Cashin Dec 29

@BryanBennett @june Hi. I don't think I have access to the post you're referencing.

Ed Cashin Dec 4

John McFarlane Dec 3

Reminder: whenever you see examples of 'cursed' C or C++, run it built on GCC/Clang with

-Werror -Wall -Wextra -fsanitize=undefined,address

and see how far it gets. These flags should be enabled by default in IDEs, build systems and for testing and development.

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Ed Cashin Oct 16

@dave_andersen What is the light blue thing called, please? (In homebrewing, I've worked with CO2 tanks before, but I don't recognize that thing.)

Ed Cashin Sep 29

@macberg @protman I really hope it's a solved problem and that my expectations are outdated. I think I was actively trying to sync things when Linux audio was in a transitional period, so it's hard to say whether my experiences have much weight anymore.

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Ed Cashin Sep 29

@protman This reminds me of lots of MIDI-clock issues between hardware and hardware or hardware and software. It's why I sold my Arturia DRUMBRUTE (c. 2019 it couldn't follow a clock). And it's why I'll use plugins inside Renoise but avoid hooking it up to other apps.
It's kind of surprising that sync is so hard for people to get right, but it must be tricky.

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Ed Cashin Jul 13, 2025

@dave_andersen Did the robot do a good enough job unattended for you to avoid cleaning up after it had tried to clean it up? I am not being snarky--I'm genuinely interested in the quality of the mopping.

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Ed Cashin Jul 1, 2025

@protman Ha! That explains why I thought, "Impulse Tracker!!! Wait, no---Renoise!!!"

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Ed Cashin May 23, 2025

@b0rk @jspc I like it that for the NUL-separated stuff in that file, the xargs feature of handling NUL-separated stuff is handy.

xargs -0 -n 1 < /proc/$$/environ

And for seeing weird stuff that might have funny characters, the "listing" command of the stream editor is handy.

sed -n l /proc/$$/environ | less

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