1. You can't pick and choose your monitor like this on laptops.

2. I like my "window/s of interest" (the current "task") to be front and centre; I would like my window management when task switching both to do this for me and to set the previous current task aside for me. It seems to me this would require some kind of undiscovered paradigm that isn't tiling or stacking. Ultrawide is just forcing me to direct my attention to a specific off-centre region for extended periods. This feels like holding breath, except psychological - I can only take it so long, then my eyes, by themselves, are going to look at other areas, whether I like it or not. Which is also one reason why tiling is an absolute non-starter for me.

Compiz had it: https://youtu.be/KGkodX89ouA?t=244

> That's what we were trying to (and succeeded at being able to) avoid.

What did he mean by this?

Mash from Inferno https://inbox.vuxu.org/9fans/AANLkTikvTbqLwrxifri86cAEBS3wmk...

I've been seeing people, never ones who were actually there, make this claim in the last five to ten years. Rc was on tenth edition Unix. I've seen no evidence that it originated on Unix. The manual calls it the Plan 9 shell.

I was going by the fact that tenth edition Unix was released on 1989, while Plan 9 was first released in 1992: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Unix

Pehaps this is misleading.

The first paragraph of https://archive.org/details/rc-shell/

So rc was made for Plan 9. The examples in that paper are definitely on tenth edition Unix, I think this would be because

A fairly complete version of Plan 9 was built in 1987 and 1988, but development was abandoned. In May of 1989 work was begun on a completely new system

from https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/designing_plan_9 (1990).

Some clues:

The mk paper (and Unix man page) doesn't mention rc.

Plan 9 existed since the mid-80s.

This sentence in the Unix rc(1) sure makes it seem like rc was Plan 9-first:

Environment entries for variables are kludgy for UNIX compatibility.

I did read the paper, I always thought it was theoretical too. Then I saw a video with maddog saying he witnessed Ken logging in using his backdoor.

I'm curious why private school? The usual reason people don't unschool is they haven't really heard of it (or they've heard of it but believe some boomer conventional wisdom like muh socialisation or it's just for extreme Christians). You obviously have, so like... what evidence are you seeing that's convincing you of school?

The fire conventional wisdom thing is just that: conventional wisdom. Debunked in this week's Tom Scott video.

And yet Plan 9 has a curl/wget equivalent, `hget`.

In the ideal world this would be a two-line wrapper that just calls cat on the given url