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Checking news once a day is enough. — The Old Computer Challenge: 10 days later, what changed?
Tonight I top at less than 2 Go of RAM. Great, especially since I’m only using Gnome terminal and a bunch of child processes, after 2 days uptime. Never happened when I was on macOS.
What’s the difference? Why do all those formal doo-hickeys matter?
Performance! Compiled languages are fast. Lisp is WAY faster than Ruby, over the long haul. Smokes it. — the-emacs-problem
R Cookbook, 2nd Edition. #rstats
I don’t have to waste time troubleshooting a package that isn’t integrating with the system properly, or looks like it’s straight out of 1995 because no theming is applied for some unknown reason. — A Sombre Goodbye To Linux
I did go pretty much in the reverse direction, from Mac to Linux, last year, but obviously I have much less demanding graphic needs since I spend most of my time in a terminal with command line tools.
TIL about SQL FETCH FIRST
. #database