2nd chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 it'd be of interest for anyone who hadn't realised

2nd chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 it'd be of interest for anyone who hadn't realised that attributes can be given out of band as well as in band. [a trick from the old days: if you're making a bunch of positionally-specified edits, do them in the opposite of the naive order, from the back of the file towards the front; this way length changes in the initial edits can't affect offsets for the final edits]