Sean1708

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by Sean1708 8y ago
No, -v will return 0 unless every line matches: $ cat > foo here's some random text $ grep -v some foo; echo $? here's random text 0 $ grep -v bar foo; echo $? here's some random text 0
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> Even GNU `cat`, the canonical "do one thing" tool, has several formatting options. Huh, TIL. It's just never occurred to me to even bother checking the help for cat. $ cat --help Usage: cat [OPTION]... [FILE]...
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These look like the installation instructions, but I've not tried them myself: http://madoko.org/reference.html#sec-installation-and-usage
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This is why I'm always a bit wary of using Markdown for technical documents, Markdown is just too simple and you end up having to add on all these non-standard extensions to make it halfway usable. Add on to that the fact that Markdo
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> I sometimes encounter libraries which provide weird options or methods for which I never understand their purpose. I won't name and shame the author because it's just a little personal project, but my favourite example of thi
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It's just how I've always seen it used.
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I think they just wanted all of the data.
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> IMO there's a difference between "use at your own risk" and "this is actually not meant to be called from the outside and if it is it will violate some invariant in the code". Those are two different concepts a
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https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/mcilroy-regex/blob/3cc2cb9c...
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> (5) works on non-string data Would you mind giving an example of when this would be useful?
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> I think what they meant to say was that it could make a typical globular cluster satellite of the Milky Way galaxy, containing about 225000 butter-stars with the same mass as our sun. I don't think it was anything near that comple
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Minute Physics did a good couple of videos on this[0,1], pretty much the same info as is in the Wiki but might be easier to digest for some people. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg9MVRQYmBQ [1]: https://ww
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> Mozilla is still kinda in denial re process isolation. Isn't that exactly what Electrolysis[0] was for? [0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
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WASM and JS are both JIT compiled in all major browsers which means that they compile to the same kind of native code that C and C++ do, they just do so as the program is running rather than in advance.
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What's your background? I ask because if you need to learn the physics behind how circuits behave then that's going to be a lot more difficult to self-teach than just learning how to solve differential equations computationally.
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I'm wondering if something that could make quite a difference is that from a design perspective touchscreens are far more forgiving than proper buttons, if you fuck up the interface all you need is a software update not a change to you
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Have you ever been tested for asthma? I used to get that feeling all the time when doing rigorous exercise, and I was always under the impression that it was related to my asthma in some way (I could well be wrong though, I can't remem
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Brilliant, thank you very much. Although it might be a tad late now.
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Urgh, I hate that you can't edit HN comments. First two were just me making a mistake because I write that in manually. That last column makes no sense. It was supposed to be the probability that the model gave to the outcome that occu
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> It was stupid of Goldman Sachs or whoever to predict an outcome. If you read the actual report they did[0], they never claimed that any single outcome was more than 18.5% likely. [0]: http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thi
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In case anyone was interested here is a table of how likely the model thought each team was to make it through any particular stage[0] along with the stage that that team went out in and the probability that the model gave for that particul
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Usually when people say that they mean that it works well for small projects and small teams, but doesn't work as well for big projects or big teams.
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> Anecdotally, I've tried to learn Nix for several years. Out of interest, what did you find difficult? I ask because I spent last weekend setting up NixOS, and the only things I found difficult were discoverability and documentatio
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> In the process the doctor does her best to come across as medically authoritative and confident, so that the participants believe they are getting an effective drug treatment. Otherwise the placebo won’t work. I was always under the im
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> You cannot simply rely on local tab width settings if files use a mix of tabs and spaces for indentation and alignment: if you change the tab width then alignment breaks. Ah I think you've misunderstood what I meant by tabs for in
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These two other articles might provide you with more information: * https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2018/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-ve... * https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated-raid
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> With Mozilla’s support, I proved that the only real limits were around translating certain “features” of C that Rust didn’t provide. Sounds more like he's talking about the "Likely Won't Ever Support"[0] section. [0
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> if Bing saw a spike in searches for "Aramco IPO July 4, 2018" and were to reveal it to a human or store it, that might be a serious leak of non-public information Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but how is that
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They tried to change the behaviour to the one that makes sense (to us) but there was backlash from users and so they reverted the change.[0] [0]: https://www.imore.com/twitter-changes-how-block-works-heres-...
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Or normal FireFox with uBlock Origin if you want to maintain history, logins, etc.

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