It's been too long

Luis Bruno

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Jul 7, 2021, 10:30:13 AM7/7/21

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Hey,

I hope this finds yous well in these (almost) unprecedented times.

I used to spend some time in these Hallowed Halls a decade or so ago,
but I've been working at the Chocolate Factory for a bit, and I allowed
it to take over all my attention span.

Well, until this July 4th when I left.

Perhaps I'll be around here more often. It will certainly cure me of the
top-posting habit I got while inside.

Best wishes,
Luis B.

John Dow

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Jul 8, 2021, 6:08:03 AM7/8/21

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On 2021-07-07, Luis Bruno <im+u...@lbruno.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I hope this finds yous well in these (almost) unprecedented times.

Welcome back, matey. It's a bit quiet in here these days. I think
most people have recovered :)

J

Luis Bruno

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Jul 8, 2021, 4:56:37 PM7/8/21

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Merci!

Unrelatedly, I saw your headers and went "ooh, I should look into this
eternal-september thingo".

TL;DR: back in 2017 I had already created an account; I'm good at this
executive function trickery :)

poindexter FORTRAN

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Jul 9, 2021, 2:12:28 AM7/9/21

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To: John Dow
Re: Re: It's been too long
By: John Dow to alt.sysadmin.recovery on Thu Jul 08 2021 11:05 am

JD> From Newsgroup: alt.sysadmin.recovery
JD> Welcome back, matey. It's a bit quiet in here these days. I think

Some have relapsed. :)

I was managing teams, been working with really cool tech on my own recently and
supporting a team of 30 people.

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John Dow

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Jul 9, 2021, 10:08:04 AM7/9/21

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Ah yes - I run leafnode locally, but I pull a feed from E-S :)

Choobs

mi...@mikea.ath.cx

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Jul 13, 2021, 10:46:36 PM7/13/21

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John Dow <j...@nelefa.org> wrote in <slrnsegkk...@Knuth.nelefa.org>:

> On 2021-07-08, Luis Bruno <im+u...@lbruno.org.example.com> wrote:
>> On 2021-07-08 11:05, John Dow wrote:
>>> On 2021-07-07, Luis Bruno <im+u...@lbruno.org> wrote:
>>>> Hey,
>>>>
>>>> I hope this finds yous well in these (almost) unprecedented times.
>>>
>>> Welcome back, matey. It's a bit quiet in here these days. I think
>>> most people have recovered :)
>>
>> Merci!
>>
>> Unrelatedly, I saw your headers and went "ooh, I should look into this
>> eternal-september thingo".

#!/bin/sh

sepdate() {
perl -e 'print (int((time-746856000)/86400),"\n");'
}

/bin/date "+%a Sep `sepdate` %T %Z 1993"

>> TL;DR: back in 2017 I had already created an account; I'm good at this
>> executive function trickery :)
>
> Ah yes - I run leafnode locally, but I pull a feed from E-S :)
>
> Choobs

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Stephen Harris

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Jul 14, 2021, 6:37:45 AM7/14/21

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mi...@mikea.ath.cx wrote:
> #!/bin/sh

> sepdate() {
> perl -e 'print (int((time-746856000)/86400),"\n");'
> }

> /bin/date "+%a Sep `sepdate` %T %Z 1993"

I think you're a day out. 746856000 is Sep 1 1993 04:00:00 UTC,
so you'd display that day as "Sep 0". Similarly you'd display Sep 2 1993
as "Sep 1".

#!/bin/bash

set -- $(date "$@" +"%s %a %X %Z")
case $0 in
*september) o=8643 ; m=Sep ; y=1993 ;;
*covdate) o=18321 ; m=Mar ; y=2020 ;;
*) echo Unknown command
exit
esac
let d=$1/86400-$o
echo "$2 $m $d $3 $4 $y"

% september -d 'Sep 1 1993' ; september
Wed Sep 1 00:00:00 EDT 1993
Wed Sep 10179 06:30:29 EDT 1993

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rgds
Stephen

Ralph Angenendt

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Jul 14, 2021, 6:38:02 AM7/14/21

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Well, Roger Bell_West <roger+a...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:
> On 2021-07-14, mi...@mikea.ath.cx wrote:
>>sepdate() {
>
> What is this shell function witchery?

Something that works.

> echo $((($(date +%s)-$(date -d 31-aug-93 +%s))/86400)) September 1993
>
> R
>
> only four deep parens, should have used more

Would still be gnuish, wouldn't it?

Ralph
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Alexander Schreiber

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Sep 2, 2021, 8:08:04 AM9/2/21

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Luis Bruno <im+u...@lbruno.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I hope this finds yous well in these (almost) unprecedented times.
>
> I used to spend some time in these Hallowed Halls a decade or so ago,
> but I've been working at the Chocolate Factory for a bit, and I allowed
> it to take over all my attention span.
>
> Well, until this July 4th when I left.

Another monk leaving that place ...

>
> Perhaps I'll be around here more often. It will certainly cure me of the
> top-posting habit I got while inside.

It is an irritating habit that gets to one. As long as one can silo it
to that place, it's not too bad.

Kind regards,
Alex.
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