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florentoday at 2:25 AM2 repliesview on HN

if this wanton abuse of cat(1) doesn't stop, we're on track to run out of PIDs by 2031! Just because Unix makes it cheap and easy to fork doesn't mean you have to!

(who gives even a single shit, my god)


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copperxtoday at 2:56 AM

I like piping the output of cat and the mental image of one process feeding another. It's inconsequential, but it brings an epsilon of joy.

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floralhangnailtoday at 3:19 AM

Is this a dig at IPv6?

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