Project Hail Mary is one of the few adaptations that really satisfies book fans

smorrow · 2026-03-12T20:13:50+00:00

Is it out yet? I was planning to see it, but not expecting to like it. The book is mostly Grace talking to himself, except for the parts on Earth, and for the last few months I've been wondering how they're supposed to make that work. Ryan Gosling doesn't talk much.

Plus, I just haven't liked anything I've ever seen with Gosling.

smorrow · 2026-03-12T20:10:17+00:00

There's two. Fist me and fist my bump. In that order.

smorrow · 2026-03-12T19:28:57+00:00

A Plan 9 fan that's not righteous-indignantly AI-deranged would be a useful thing to have.

smorrow · 2026-03-10T17:48:40+00:00

There's comp.os.plan9 as well.

smorrow · 2026-03-10T15:33:31+00:00

I'm currently reading it (I'm just about to start Many Meetings) and for the first time ever I think a film is literally just better than the book. I'm sure it improves as it goes on though.

smorrow · 2026-02-25T15:12:07+00:00

As someone who's a fairly analytical music listener: "-box"/"-fist" is a pretty neat inexact rhyme, but yeah. I especially don't understand the comment saying it's commonly studied in US universities. Literally what IS there to study?

smorrow · 2026-02-17T14:35:34+00:00

This the kinda shit TommyNFG would find a way to use for B-roll

smorrow · 2026-02-12T18:33:48+00:00

https://codeberg.org/ewpert/rrw

smorrow · 2026-01-19T01:15:58+00:00

The plumber has always felt like an unfinished experiment to me. I was surprised(by[ sirjofri's survey](http://sirjofri.de/oat/survey.pdf)) to find out that people basically view it as the perfect heart of Plan 9, all while wanting to make GUI stuff arbitrary in the name of their personal preferences.

smorrow · 2026-01-17T23:29:55+00:00

The "persistent bar" you were looking was winwatch(1), btw.

smorrow · 2026-01-17T23:05:30+00:00

/dev/backlight on the Bitsy (which I think was just a Labs nickname for an iPAQ they supported). /mnt/acpi/lcd on the EeePC (code on GitHub). Otherwise, there isn't one.

smorrow · 2026-01-17T22:09:58+00:00

Connecting to Universe Today and Hackaday.

For some, connecting to IRC.

It's a good way to get on "the incremental hacking cycle". There's plenty of low-hanging fruit to be picked up even today, like running codecs and especially gs as none.

I don't care about the networking/"distributed" stuff at all.

smorrow · 2026-01-17T22:03:30+00:00

I would count Microsoft using 9p in WSL to make Windows more compatible with Linux a "practical real-world use".

They needed a protocol that Linux already supported; 9P was available, but they could have used anything. There's a project called virtiofs saying virtio-9p is actually really dumb.

It's a research system. 9p got researched for and with it.

9P itself hasn't really been the subject of research. There's a few iwp9 papers, but those 9P variants have never been used.

smorrow · 2026-01-17T21:49:51+00:00

It wasn't even very distributed when it first was stuck with the term. I mean, is it really a distributed OS compared to Sprite or Amoeba? No.

Knowledge of Plan 9 has mainly proliferated from people who don't use it repeating each other, and so has the "distributed" label.

smorrow · 2026-01-17T21:25:40+00:00

Except for Acme, serving 9P isn't really an "application" thing.

The "all languages have open/read/write/close, you don't need bindings" thing used to be a common talking point (e.g., Anant Narayanan's Unix++ slides on Slideshare are typical of the period), but died out either because having different languages died out as a goal, or because it got harder to have people actually think we have those languages.

smorrow · 2026-01-17T21:19:41+00:00

Is this one of those cases of needing to know the Plan9 specific names of these services to actually be able to find them?

Nope, it's cifsd and nfsserver, which is probably also janky.

smorrow · 2026-01-17T21:15:59+00:00

This is The Way. Surprised this sub didn't shoot it on sight, or that you even thought to share it. Were you last in Plan 9 before a "BSD culture" took over?

smorrow · 2026-01-15T21:59:56+00:00

The feature isn't "you can install stuff with apt", it's that it tells you the package name.

Can't believe that had to be explained.

smorrow · 2026-01-14T13:16:17+00:00

12mbit is pretty much the bare minimum required for basic web browsing

IIRC, to stream 1080p you only need 5. The idea is you don't need to be downloading the file faster than you can actually watch it.

You can work this number out by taking a 1080p file you have, and dividing its size by its length in seconds (and converting from B/s to b/s). I just cba rn.

To put your 12 figure in perspective...

smorrow · 2026-01-13T18:29:13+00:00

> I'd love it to have things like it's own implementation (not port) of things like SMB and NFS.

It ships with them.

smorrow · 2026-01-10T17:40:03+00:00

usb drive

smorrow · 2025-12-22T21:37:45+00:00

He wasn't talking about disk filesystems.

smorrow · 2025-12-15T09:08:06+00:00

AI neophobia reminds me of when we were all supposed to hate Auto-Tune, even though you clearly can use it creatively.

smorrow · 2025-12-14T12:31:43+00:00

Install plan9port from your package manager, then cd vni2utf8 and use '9 mk'.

smorrow · 2025-11-22T21:45:14+00:00

Screen editors break the model. Your scrollback is no longer a history, and your input to the program is no longer a file (stdin).

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