pet the cat, walk the dog

“I haven’t seen thing happen during my lifetime, therefore thing doesn’t happen.”

I’d say spoilers dude, but this is all sorta common knowledge around ‘2001’ the film. Afaik the novel also has some stuff about missiles and whatever, in the end phase. I should probably get through it someday, looks like it’s quite short even.

In no way am I elitist about it. I’m just opposed to the language moving away from being phonemic, and am rather alarmist about that prospect, even though I know full well that the pronunciation will drift away while the spelling stays conservative.

‘его’ is at least a typical consistent rule, mapping to the pronunciation ‘ево’ in the same places in various words, just like ‘eau’ in French. But the replacement of ‘ё’ with ‘е’ is just egregious violation of a letter that has its own sound, without any reason for that.

Btw, just wanted to clarify that it wasn’t me who downvoted you. I do appreciate a good squabble.

Well, it doesn’t matter what I write, does it? Why would I care then how it works?

Sure, Ḿäřṭṯı, sure.

For better or worse, I’ve been reading almost exclusively in English for years, but also listening to English audiobooks wherein I learned a lot of new things about words that I’ve seen before. That’s precisely why I’ve become more entrenched in my belief that ‘ё’ shouldn’t be optional. And use it myself always.

Did you triple check which device you picked?

I checked five times, actually. And then I check some more.

Everyone seemingly missed that you linked a different ‘Solaris’.

Since you’re probably thinking of Tarkovsky’s film, be advised that just like with ‘Stalker’, he didn’t really follow the original material, and instead used it to build his own ideas. So it’s a separate art piece.

Get in the fucking spaceship, Coop.

clearly some abstract artsy metaphor

Hmmm, not really — it actually has elements similar to those in ‘Interstellar’. It’s just that the happenings are delivered in a much more vague manner. From what I’ve heard, Arthur Clarke’s novel describes them clearer.

Quality rant.

I’m curious as to whether you’ve seen ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, to which coincidentally ‘Interstellar’ pays tribute imo. I’m wondering if you were similarly infuriated by the ending.

It’s also used by people who respect the language and don’t want to see it gradually turn into a shitshow like English where it’s spelled ‘Manchester’, pronounced ‘Liverpool’.

That raises the question of how their ps, top, lsof and such work, since afaik in Linux they read from /proc.

P.S. Looks like BSDs tug at the kernel via syscalls, namely sysctl and also the ‘kvm interface’ in the case of MacOS (not sure what ‘kvm’ thing is meant here). Seems vaguely reasonable, since procfs also queries the kernel for the info, so about the same resources would be used, perhaps even with the overhead of filesystem traversal and string-numbers conversion.

These days there can be a dozen virtual filesystems doing various stuff. If you ever want to get quite baffled, install a terminal emulator on an Android phone (not Termux) and run mount.

See this past comment and the whole thread. The topic of Android games is brought up repeatedly here.

If you have a tablet, that’s a whole another world: I’ve played OpenTTD and a port of ‘Masters of Orion’ on mine. You can also run a whole bunch of DOS games with Magic Dosbox, or graphic adventures with ScummVM.

See if the headers are duplicated somewhere else on the partition (at the end or somesuch).

This is where Ansible comes in.

Well, ackshually