mfontani

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by mfontani 6y ago
> Compared to Python for example where you'd literally just pass the array to the method like method(array). How does one tell Python to pass the contents of said array as distinct parameters to the function, instead of as a lone ar
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by mfontani 6y ago
Sure: https://www.theregister.com/about/company/website/
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by mfontani 6y ago
Yay for (some) Perl support! The Perl validation seems to be restricted to "compile with warnings", despite "perlcritic" being now almost 15 years old, predating both some other linters' and even some other language
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by mfontani 6y ago
Chrome is/has/was special-cased dropping the display of the "www." prefix, and that one only, for a while now.
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by mfontani 6y ago
In the year 2000, my (telnet + MCP & MCCP & other acronyms-supporting) C-based MUD boasted a _web_ interface. With colors, buttons to move, and even _images_. A web request is just a TCP socket, and browsers were gracious enough to
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by mfontani 6y ago
This might surprise/enlighten you, then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Contemporary_slavery
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by mfontani 6y ago
No need to invoke a deity to do that... echo 'Hi!' | tee "$(printf "foo\nbar\tqu ux.txt")" cat foo$'\n'bar$'\t'qu' 'ux.txt IIRC the latter only works in ksh93+, but the fo
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What's up with K-9 Mail?(k9mail.app)
3 points by mfontani 6y ago|0 comments
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Sophos puts 100 at risk of redundancy(theregister.com)
1 points by mfontani 6y ago|0 comments
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by mfontani 6y ago
It was a bit difficult to follow and the reasons behind why things failed weren't fully clear. I've also not written any asm in a couple decades... so, thank you very much for explaining this to me. It makes total sense now!
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by mfontani 6y ago
Wow, there's _pages_ and _pages_ of programs which would have been seemingly broken because they forget to "sti" after having "cli". It was one of those things we were taught to always, no matter what, do in high s
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by mfontani 6y ago
They seem to be currently having a few problems with log-in: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/q3cfsrp1qb6l
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by mfontani 6y ago
I _hate_ that browsers auto-complete hidden fields for a different reason: using a hidden "telephone" or "phone" field was a low-effort but quite reliable method to weed bots from users... as users wouldn't fill a h
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Gitea-Release Tool Announcement(christine.website)
1 points by mfontani 6y ago|0 comments
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Fixing a long-standing bug in satellite-based nuclear weapon detectors(docs.google.com)
6 points by mfontani 6y ago|0 comments
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by mfontani 6y ago
I see. I mostly use Debian, and it seems that their "parallel" package removed the notice. More info at: https://sources.debian.org/patches/parallel/20161222-1.1/
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by mfontani 6y ago
Glad to hear you opted for adding another tool to your toolbox :)
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by mfontani 6y ago
That's odd, but interesting. What warning? Is it Fedora-specific?
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by mfontani 6y ago
I would strongly recommend you do learn Perl 5 (and Raku, and Haskell, and lua, and functional languages, and ...), even if only to be able to know enough about them to be enlightened about what each of them gets right and wrong. For Perl 5
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by mfontani 6y ago
GNU Parallel is also a very useful tool, and it's written in Perl 5.
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by mfontani 6y ago
/usr/bin/perl scripts written more than twenty years ago continue to work. So do /bin/sh and /bin/bash scripts. /usr/bin/python scripts IME depend on what /usr/bin/python poin
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Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installation?(marc.info)
100 points by mfontani 6y ago|157 comments
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by mfontani 6y ago
Vim's (well... "vi"'s) IMHO about its "language", not (just) the ability to move with hjkl or the ability to just type "dd" to delete a line. The ability to join together optional "contexts"
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by mfontani 6y ago
I'm sure the app has to be able to deal with all that, and that unmistakably adds a layer of complexity which ought to exhibit _somewhere_. On the other hand, when using the Slack app as a simple chat app - formatted text only, a few f
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by mfontani 6y ago
Thank you for that. Could you confirm whether "pure red on white" is okay for you, or whether it's too light? i.e. #ff0000 on #ffffff
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by mfontani 6y ago
Automated tools are all fine and dandy and I like to use them. A pet peeve of mine is that "red on white" is considered bad while being, in fact, perfectly legible: > Element has insufficient color contrast of 3.99 (foreground
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by mfontani 6y ago
How could one log in whilst having JS disabled?
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by mfontani 6y ago
I like it a lot, it's really neat and well done. I'd likely love to use it on mobile. On desktop, I've spent a while attempting to "properly" swipe to toggle todo/done and it's been one of the worst exerci
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by mfontani 6y ago
Yup, there you go! I wasn't that far off :^)
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by mfontani 6y ago
I might remember wrong, mind you... "but". A long while ago, browsers were compliant, in that they only allowed first-party cookies by default, and users had to opt-in (by going into the browser's settings) to allow third par

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