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The /bin vs /usr/bin split (and all the others) is an artifact of this, a 1970’s implementation detail that got carried forward for decades by bureaucrats who never question why they’re doing things. It stopped making any sense before Linux was ever invented, for multiple reasons (…) — Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split
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Core values are self-reinforcing. They attract like-minded people, who will then defend them. — The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
Pollen’s sequel? Quad: document processor. #racket
Parquet and Postgres in the Data Lake. #database