Oh that's easyish. If cat then[sleep, purr, want outside when owner is
putting shoes, stare at owner at 5AM for food] dowhile this.owner
{not,home}: [playrock, play WOW. break cheep_vase]
else notCat.now.Though I have feeling unix tool that I don't understand. On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:34 PM, ┣glen┫ <[email protected]> wrote: > > What makes this nightmarish (to me) is the broken contract between you and > "cat", or larger between you and your OS. Such broken contracts are a part > of all my nightmares. And the admittedly more pleasant aspects of the > nightmare are the ways you try to restore your operational power inside the > dream. It's the same old fear of spies, moles, talking behind one's back, > etc. If you can't trust your closest relationships, you're truly lost. > > But awake, it's relatively easy to admit that I don't understand "cat" any > more than I understand pond scum or dogs. So, those contracts are > delusions and the more one thinks they know their intimate relations, the > more delusional they are. (Note that "delusional" isn't pejorative. > Innovation is driven by delusion.) > > On 10/21/2016 04:49 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > I first learned Unix when I went to work at Bell Labs in 1978. I was > only there for two years but over the next 18 years at Carnegie Mellon I > used Unix workstations or time-sharing systems almost constantly. The other > night I had a dream that involved Unix. I am not saying the dream made > sense. Dreams often don't. For some reason I had a feeling that someone > had modified my system by replacing the cat command with a shell script > that didn't behave the way cat should. I decided to use the which command > to find where the fake cat script was located in the file system. But then > I thought how can I examine the script without using cat. I was going > around in circles about this until I sort of woke up. I realized that I > could use ed to look at the script. Then I went back to sleep. Sometimes > my memories of my dreams aren't accurate. > > > -- > ␦glen? > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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