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by gnubison 2y ago
Explanation for other confused people: the pronunciations of these words and letters, expressed in IPA (or perhaps an orthography like Spanish’s) begin with odd other sounds: Universal /ˌjunɪˈvɝsl̩/, y /ˈwaɪ/, w /ˈd
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by gnubison 3y ago
The maintainers are conservative about breaking changes. Almost all features are hidden behind “use” statements: for example, “use feature "bitwise"” splits the questionable & operators into & for numbers and &. for b
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by gnubison 3y ago
There is a way, of course, of getting the correct hyphen-minus, and that’s by using ‘\-’. Almost all manual pages do this, including manual page generators, because the “problem” (which is just troff syntax) is well known and well documente
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by gnubison 3y ago
Is Linux designed in such a way that less-than-page size allocations never fail? How would that work?
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by gnubison 3y ago
For completions sake, though, the easy way to do it is: foo`'bar The empty quotes make foo and bar separate words.
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by gnubison 3y ago
Why do you need to remove all of these from the environment?
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by gnubison 3y ago
Vi is in POSIX, it has been open source since 2002, and some version of it truly is on every UNIX system.
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Practical parsing with Flex and Bison (2021)(begriffs.com)
69 points by gnubison 3y ago|29 comments
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by gnubison 3y ago
Although Lua patterns are quite elegant and, in my opinion, more readable than normal regex. Despite having a small string library, Lua still works for many use cases.
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by gnubison 3y ago
“Imaginary problems are the roots of negative developments”
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by gnubison 3y ago
If only there was some well written book about Learning Perl, or well written documentation in the form of manual pages (see perldata).
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by gnubison 4y ago
OpenBSD does not support jails or ZFS. Those are FreeBSD features (although perhaps NetBSD supports some of them too?). I really like OpenBSD but I think it’s counterproductive to lump them together: they are very different.
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by gnubison 4y ago
What configuration debt does OpenBSD bring to your mind?
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by gnubison 4y ago
The book also includes a map of the places mentioned, at the time of Classical Latin that the narrative is set in. I’m only about half way through, but there really aren’t that many cognates. An aha! moment every so often, sure — like si
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by gnubison 4y ago
For me personally, the godawful default syntax highlighting is … quite unfortunate
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by gnubison 4y ago
I find this interesting because I (and most Americans?) see BE as much more “posh” than AmE … I guess I’ll be looking out for actual word differences/etymologies more now
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by gnubison 4y ago
Other comments haven’t pointed this out, but the key thing is that each account gets a different input (so it's a little harder to cheat).
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by gnubison 4y ago
Oh, “tag” made my brain parse as HTML tags. TIL
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by gnubison 4y ago
Good thing this acronym distingui- oh.
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by gnubison 4y ago
> Unicode has language tags that you can embed in documents, those are deprecated and they were never well supported, Huh? MDN doesn’t mention this … why are they deprecated?
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by gnubison 4y ago
Prescriptivism much? :p
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by gnubison 4y ago
*<cite>
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by gnubison 4y ago
Note that OpenBSD now uses the much smaller doas instead.
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by gnubison 4y ago
Where does the reference to the tails come from?
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by gnubison 4y ago
Thank you!
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by gnubison 4y ago
What is the stronger version?
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by gnubison 4y ago
“Mordor” and “little Mordor” on the map sealed the deal for me
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by gnubison 4y ago
> Or d7w, or c9j… I can’t count seven words or nine lines as fast as I can just tap vwwwwwwwd or shift-vjjjjjjjjjc, because in the latter case I only have to pick out whether the cursor has reached the target, allowing me to blast out fo
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by gnubison 4y ago
Or Caddy, if the documentation is correct …
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by gnubison 4y ago
Fossil is decentralized, just like git?

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