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Articles with the computers tag

Sun 10 March 2019

By Austin

Steam Library on Network Attached Storage

The Problem Suppose you have a lot of Steam games, but not a lot of local disk space. Maybe you're using a laptop for some light gaming and don't want to sacrifice several hundred gigabytes of your local storage. Maybe you have a couple computers and...

Sun 09 September 2018

By Austin

Stream Programming

Introduction Most simple iterative programming tasks can be rephrased in terms of a 'map' or 'reduce' operation. The advantage here is that if we can work our problem into a map - reduce problem, we can easily increase parallelism. A simple example...

Mon 20 August 2018

By Austin

Binary Tree in Haskell

Introduction Binary trees have internal structure; for any given node, all elements to the left are less than the current value, and all elements to the right are greater than the current value. For instance: 5 /--+--\ 3 6 /-+-\ 1 2 Lets build a binary...

Mon 30 July 2018

By Austin

Dynamic Shell Scripting

Summary We can use declare, eval and text manipulation tools like awk and sed to dynamically redefine shell functions based on their content or name. This allows us to add lines or generate entirely new functions. Introduction Bash and other shell...

Mon 13 November 2017

By Austin

Practical Coprocesses

Introduction Coprocesses expose a way to run a subshell asychronously, while maintaining full communication through pipes. In a typical script, you can run commands in the background (asychronously) with the & operator. This allows tasks to be worked...

Wed 28 June 2017

By Austin

Vimrc

I've read through a lot of vimrc's, borrowing a line here or there over the past 5 years! The best nuggets and my own findings are all distilled here for your perusal. What's the best way to use this? Skim through, find something that sounds...

Sun 02 April 2017

By Austin

Hal

Introduction Hal is a artificial intelligence I wrote for the Minecraft server I run. Here I hope to shed some light onto what he does and how he works. I'm going to run with the anthropomorphized 'he' even though Hal is really just a bunch of shell...