woah your bash is legit good. I thought numeric pretexts needed $(( blah )), but you’re ommiting the $ like an absolute madman. How is this wizardy possible

I prefer good ole regex test of a binary num

function isEven(number){
   binary=$(echo "obase=2; $number" | bc)
   if [ "${binary:-1}" = "1" ]; then
         return 255
   fi
   return 0
}

I know, what a dick right

I’m so glad that Kim Kardashian exists to inspire young people today…

I love the tired droopy eyes that comes from decades of staring at bad code.

Not good code, never good code. Good code you glance at once and it makes your heart sing.

No, bad code keeps you up at night, staring into the void between the whitespace until you can make out the subpixel colouring of your own sad reflection gazing recursively in upon itself broken only by the jagged stack limit threshold of the hateful morning sun casting a bad enough glare for you to hiss under the covers for a brief respite before you repeat the same process again.

…not quite sure where the hostility is coming from.

The question OP asked is what is likely to vanish in 10 years, and I described the already forced-digitization of household appliances and took it one step further to depict Appliances-as-a-Service, based on the model the printer industry is already rolling out.

How his offends anyone, is a little beyond me. Maybe I should have added quotes?

Yup. Worse still, I can see this extending to other appliances. Haven’t paid your monthly washing machine service fee? Our partnership with the only water company in your area authorizes us to shut off your water.

Manual appliances. You can open the fridge, but only if you pay your monthly subscription fee to keep it restocked.

We work hand-in-hand in retailers to make online shopping the default, whilst making the UI only accessible to AI bots, so if you want a stocked fridge; pay your fees.

self-inflicted, if they played nice we would all be printing from home.

upside is less paper waste

Thank you so much!

WKUK are always good, and the current guy on their channel is pushing very apt sketches in our current world crisis

Thanks for checking IMDB, I didn’t think to look there! I wonder if they have a wiki of sorts with this info

I seem to be on a gnuplot bender at the moment, but maybe you will enjoy this too!

thanks! oh well data formatting, just 15 years of messing around with awk and sed

Data fitting, gnuplot does all the heavy lifting with the modelling, and I always have to look up the syntax because I never remember it haha

Play around and have fun with the code snippets!

Upon deeper analysis, you are correct. I was a bit floored by what appeared to be a power curve near the beginning, but after actually plotting, it’s a simple linear trend:

Data

  curl https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html \
     | sed -nr '/^<h3><a/s/.*OpenSSH ([0-9.]+).*\(([0-9-]+)\).*/\2\t\1/p' \
     | sort \
     | sed -r 's|([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)|\1.\2\3|' \
     | column -t -N 'Date,Version' > openssh.dat
  head openssh.dat

Date        Version
2000-03-05  1.22
2000-03-24  1.23
...
2025-02-18  9.9
2025-04-09  10.0

Fit

  gnuplot -p -e '
    set xdata time;
    set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d";
    set xlabel "Date"; set format x "%Y";
    set ylabel "Version";
    f(x) = a*x + b;
    a = 1e-10; b = -100;
    fit f(x) "openssh.dat" using 1:2 via a,b;
    set label 1 sprintf("Fit: Version = (%.3e * Date) %.3f", a ,b) at graph 0.05,0.95 left;
    plot "openssh.dat" using 1:2 with points title "Versions", f(x) with lines title "Fit"
  '

Predict

Use Y = (mX) + C, or Version = (9.55651e-09 * Date) -6.75132

export VERSION="43.2"

date +%Y-%m-%d -d \
 @$(
    export m="9.55651e-09";
    export c="-6.75132";
    ## Use python for better scientific number handling 
    python -c "print(($VERSION - $c)/$m)"
 )

For OpenSSH version 43.2, the predicted date is:

2135-08-21

So, assuming a linear trend and no cataclysmic events that would pause development for a few thousand years, then it’s only 110 years into the future

fuckoff spez

OpenSSH version:

• 10.0 was released 2025
• 5.0 was released 2008
• 1.2 was released 2005 (on unix)

Extrapolating: OpenSSH 43.2 is millions of years into the future

https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html

I used to use RedNotebook[0] wayback when, but have since switched to Emacs and am therefore now an insufferable org-mode/roam user.

0: https://rednotebook.app/

PS2 as a non-functional hardware that works, is… a pretty apt description lol

I was thinking the exact same thing. Mud walls are great insulators, and keep really cool during the intense summer heat

Mud huttingdon: