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by gbacon 9y ago
Assuming we have some sequence of commands whose output we want to capture and eliminating any implicit use of the shell from perl, I’d define a sub along the lines of sub output_of { my(@commands) = @_; my $pid = open my
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by gbacon 9y ago
If everyone is super, then no one is.
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by gbacon 9y ago
… the idea that receiving faster or better care because you can pay more is fundamentally unfair. Is it unfair because it’s health care specifically or because of something else? Premium service offerings abound : priority mail delivery;
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by gbacon 9y ago
When you use a service without paying for it ( e.g. , television, radio, Yoogle, Facepage, and so on), you are not the customer but the vector to get to the real customer who is paying. No, buying a TV or paying your ISP is not paying for
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Super Mario Brothers Is NP-Hard [video](youtube.com)
2 points by gbacon 9y ago|0 comments
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Fractal and the Tower of Hanoi [video](youtube.com)
1 points by gbacon 9y ago|0 comments
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by gbacon 9y ago
> Y Combinator (named for an obscure mathematical function) Sigh.
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Solving Towers of Hanoi by walking Sierpinski triangle [video](youtu.be)
1 points by gbacon 9y ago|0 comments
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by gbacon 9y ago
But productive.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Potrzebie was a long-running gag word in MAD magazine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie
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by gbacon 9y ago
Check the Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) for nearby airports before you go flying. https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/PilotWeb/ https://www.notams.faa.gov/dinsQueryWeb/
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by gbacon 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Block_IIIA#Military_(M-cod...
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by gbacon 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Block_IIIA#Military_(M-cod...
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by gbacon 9y ago
Even better, go on record as having requesting a briefing from FSS.
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by gbacon 9y ago
The Air Force is jamming GPS. What if an adversary did?
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by gbacon 9y ago
Redundant systems are almost always good in aviation. The ICAO report[0] indicated either a system failure or user error resulted in the A/P’s INS mode failing to activate and instead remaining in HDG mode. Yes, the old systems are eff
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by gbacon 9y ago
https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/PilotWeb/ https://www.notams.faa.gov/dinsQueryWeb/
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The gods of Stack Exchange karma are fickle(blog.plover.com)
1 points by gbacon 9y ago|0 comments
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by gbacon 9y ago
Sounds like VMF. It’s such a pain to debug when you can’t even rely on marker strings being recognizable in dump output. One time I had to make little- and big-endian machines talk nicely was for a message engine that ran on Intel/Linu
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by gbacon 9y ago
I was chided at work recently for using a big word on a comment against a bug report that described a dialog admonishing the user to take some external action.
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by gbacon 9y ago
“Politics and crime, they are the same thing.” All three movies are now on Netflix.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Yes. CPAN is full of readable Perl. Spare us the unfair generalization.
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by gbacon 9y ago
This is what Perl is designed to be. Perl unlike the others is almost certain to be on any Unix or Linux installation. Several commenters leaving out Perl in discussions of the next step up from bash scripts is truly strange. I suppose bein
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by gbacon 9y ago
It’s misleading because rename is a command that accepts regex arguments. The shell isn’t doing anything more sophisticated with the quoted argument than passing it to rename as a positional parameter. The shell of course does expand unquot
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by gbacon 9y ago
While you’re waiting for the rest of the world to agree with you and then implement the true hypertext manuals, consider sharpening your regex saw.
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by gbacon 9y ago
True. You can do just fine in general eschewing info wankery in favor of man pages. Stallman may disapprove, but I don’t lose sleep over it.
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by gbacon 9y ago
I get that they may be unfamiliar, but learning your system’s tools will pay off over the long run. Search facilities in less and info are generally much more powerful than in your browser.
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by gbacon 9y ago
Look up the name of the concept in the manual and search for that. Compare Google or Stack Overflow searches for <() versus “process substitution.”
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by gbacon 9y ago
Usually options are typeset similar to -p Potrzebie mode ... So search for it, e.g. , /^ *-p The caret regex anchor matches at the beginning of line, and the Kleene star matches zero or more of the previous patt
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by gbacon 9y ago
Great point about ubiquity. Perl regexes are the best of breed that everyone else replicates — far better than “reasonably good.” The Perl erasure in this HN thread is startling.

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