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sdsd · 2026-02-25T15:14:50 1772032490

I was about to comment the same thing. Usually I don't call the function directly, but via the tty command in my shell scripts:

  if tty -s; then
    echo "Standard input is a TTY (interactive mode)."
  else
    echo "Standard input is not a TTY (e.g., piped or redirected)."
  fi

Now I wonder how _isatty_ itself detects whether a file descriptor is associated with a terminal!

skydhash · 2026-02-25T17:07:09 1772039229

In OpenBSD, with the fcntl system call

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/lib/libc/gen/isat...

https://man.openbsd.org/fcntl

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/sys/fcntl.h

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/ba496e5267528b649ec87212...

sdsd · 2026-02-24T20:35:05 1771965305

Highly technically knowledgeable people are more influential in this sphere than the average consumer. If developers hate your device and love your competitor, that's a real problem.

criddell · 2026-02-24T22:00:24 1771970424

It's not clear to me what the net outcome is.

I've mostly owned Android devices but for my family I've always recommended iOS devices because they are more locked down.

sdsd · 2026-02-03T20:25:32 1770150332

Open process manager to force an unresponsive program to close. This has been part of popular lexicon for decades. Eg from the song Death to Los Campesinos, "I'll be ctrl-alt-deleting your face with no reservations"

sdsd · 2026-01-26T23:35:02 1769470502

anthes.is, my favorite Unix blog

sdsd · 2026-01-26T13:42:24 1769434944

As a Guix lover and LLM tooling enthusiast, I complete agree. Administrating my system via Claude Code is so much easier. LLMs work better on a system that's hackable via text.

sdsd · 2026-01-14T21:35:55 1768426555

https://danbednarski.github.io/

Click the glyph and select mimikyu

sdsd · 2025-12-26T15:31:23 1766763083

That's a good suggestion to OP but as a user, I find it adds character and makes it feel human in an increasingly LLM-polished internet.

CamperBob2 · 2025-12-26T16:34:27 1766766867

That's how I used to feel about spelling and grammar checkers. I was wrong. Maybe you are, too.

sdsd · 2025-12-17T20:48:43 1766004523

Semi-related, I've wanted to learn Plankalkül for some time but have had immense difficulty "getting it". Has anyone on here gotten the hang of it?

sdsd · 2025-12-10T23:22:36 1765408956

For the downvoters, he's referring to this instance when (then) Senator Obama jokingly referenced bubble sort during this Google event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koMpGeZpu4Q

It was one of the many viral moments during Obama's original campaign where he seemed cool and in touch.

yunnpp · 2025-12-11T01:01:44 1765414904

Of course, being able to call out a sorting algorithm is the kind of thing that makes you very "cool and in touch" in the grander scheme of things, unlike, say, playing sports or lifting 500lbs.

meindnoch · 2025-12-11T09:25:43 1765445143

It was also when Google seemed cool and in touch.

sdsd · 2025-12-08T15:21:51 1765207311

>surely they can ally to resist culture war nonsense from making its way into their employee handbooks?

I think that's the point, using "pressure from the administration" as an excuse to nix culture war entanglements they got themselves into over the previous ~10 years. I think the "modern titans of industry" have wanted to dip out of this stuff for some time and felt stuck. Now they can do so while having plausible deniability (it was da govamint made us do it!)