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stevekemp wrote 1 hour 49 min ago:
Sadly it seems like it is down
Connected to example.fi.
Escape character is '^]'.
/home/example/services/ircd/ircd.sh: fork: retry: Resource
temporarily unavailable
dnel wrote 25 min ago:
As is the gopher service, which is a shame.
userbinator wrote 2 hours 15 min ago:
I've heard IRC servers jokingly referred to as "layer 7 multicast
routers."
nurettin wrote 3 hours 15 min ago:
Early 2000s, writing your own client to join freenode was a
programmer's rite. Sad to see the network implode. And no, I won't use
libera or whatever.
Malcolmlisk wrote 7 min ago:
How and why did it implode? I always have a feeling of wanting to go
back to basic chat rooms for linux and all but today it´s more like
a chore than anything else.
yjftsjthsd-h wrote 2 hours 55 min ago:
> And no, I won't use libera or whatever.
Any special reason? AFAIK, it's effectively the same network run by
the same people, just under a different name.
ares623 wrote 2 hours 15 min ago:
One letter too close to the L-word /s
keyle wrote 4 hours 4 min ago:
That's funny, and totally not what awk was designed for, but it does it
anyway!
epistasis wrote 4 hours 59 min ago:
A couple decades ago I remember somebody using awk in programming
competitions, as a stunt, and doing surprisingly well. For tasks
involving text processing it has a huge advantage, and it ends up doing
ok with other stuff.
busfahrer wrote 33 min ago:
I have only dabbled in AWK, but I love the book "The AWK Programming
Language" by its authors. Its a great read for any programmer,
highlighting pragmatic techniques to solve real-world problems.
pram wrote 3 hours 19 min ago:
Iâve had people be very confused and perplexed when I told them awk
is a programming language in the past lol. Most seem to think itâs
solely a tool like sort or uniq etc
ajross wrote 4 hours 33 min ago:
What I always point out though is the bathtub curve of that
perception.
Awk started life as a unique, weird, but extremely clever and
expressive environment with which you could do tricks that were
impractical anywhere else. And that's sort of back where it is now.
But for a solid decade and a half, awk was a forgotten dinosaur that
no one cared about. Because in the era where Everyone Knew Perl, awk
had no home. Perl was awk but bigger and better.
But now all us perl nuts have moved on or gone silent, all the kids
are writing code for node or python or whatnot, and No One Knows
Perl.
And in a world where no one knows perl, awk looks clever again.
rtpg wrote 11 min ago:
Does perl have an awk-y mode? Or is this just "perl has a bunch of
regex-y things to make everything flow well".
sanskarix wrote 2 hours 12 min ago:
The whole Perl era shaped so much of how we think about text
processing. It's funny how tools cycle - awk is "new" again because
we forgot the middle chapter. Same thing is happening with Rust vs
C - people rediscovering memory safety like it's a fresh idea.
neilv wrote 5 hours 12 min ago:
> it's made with gawk.
gawk is always best when served live.
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