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by ralph 13y ago
AIUI, and you may know this, the reason they don't is it would make each Pi considerably more expensive.
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by ralph 13y ago
That wouldn't give the sequence of almost-blank lines I find most helpful. It would also merge the first, long, line of the prompt with the tail of the previous command's output.
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by ralph 13y ago
I use PS1='$ ' on the local machine and 'foo$ ' if I've ssh'd to foo. I prefer this because: the location of the cursor is more fixed, it doesn't wander across the columns as the environment changes, so my eye finds it more quickly; I've a
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by ralph 13y ago
It seems from others' replies that it's not optional. It certainly isn't in English. I put it in not to correct but to explain my interpretation of what was written to better frame my question.
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by ralph 13y ago
A "couple [of] functions"? What does the other do?
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by ralph 13y ago
:ls works too.
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by ralph 13y ago
I recall patching majordomo to sort the huge subscriber list (wanting to know a court's actions as they happened) by reverse string, to bring like domains together, before splitting it into chunks of N subscribers and handing those individu
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by ralph 14y ago
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. — http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant
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by ralph 14y ago
One day I found I couldn't log in typing one-handed, holding the keyboard in the other. I finally realised that my password of some years wasn't what I thought it was, I just typed it consistently incorrectly when touch-typing. Quite a secu
40.
by ralph 14y ago
tr '\000-\377' '[/*128]\\' </dev/urandom
41.
by ralph 14y ago
It would have to know the context; those limits don't apply for s=`foo`
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by ralph 14y ago
Yes, as you say, it's not known at compile-time and is checked at interpretation time, each time. http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/b49971a1e70d/Python/ceval....
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by ralph 14y ago
The test is in the interpreter, not the compiler to byte-code. Every time the + is evaluated, the interpreter checks for the common case before resorting to finding the first object's method.
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by ralph 14y ago
You're incorrect. The number of M-backspace you appear to need would seem to depend on how many `little' words comprise the part that needs deleting, e.g. foo/2013-03-13 needed three M-backspace to rid me of the date and a further backspac
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by ralph 14y ago
Interesting, thanks.
46.
by ralph 14y ago
> dereferences the pointers to get the integer values Doesn't it find a method of x that implements addition?
47.
by ralph 14y ago
I doubt that. Learn a language's syntax and semantics, perhaps, if it's not C++. Learn its standard library so one uses it aptly rather than re-inventing, less likely, depending on the size of that library. Become proficient in the langu
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Parallel compression and content-aware deduplication of a file or stream(moinakg.github.com)
2 points by ralph 14y ago|0 comments
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by ralph 14y ago
cd `find -name foo`
50.
by ralph 14y ago
No, that gives the last word, as you say, we want the dirname of the last word. $ echo foo/bar foo/bar $ echo !$ !$:h foo/bar foo
51.
by ralph 14y ago
Is the socat required in the Fabric bits at the end?
52.
by ralph 14y ago
Presumably Jupiter's Junos is closed-source, making investigation more difficult? Do they provide it to some of their bigger clients under an agreement?
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by ralph 14y ago
Ah, the "pulling" issue hadn't occurred to me. Gold is good because it's flexible but pure gold is too soft and wears too easily so an alloy is used. 14K gold alloy seems to be the sweet spot between flexing and durability, modern 18K loses
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by ralph 14y ago
Thanks snogglethorpe, that reinforces an opinion I read a while ago when I last looked into this; modern manufactured nibs are steel with little yield and an old gold one can be a better buy for the price. Also, only the Japanese still both
55.
by ralph 14y ago
I'd like a fountain pen where the nib actually splayed on a little downward pressure so the width of the stroke was wider. Most nibs are far too strong and don't yield at all.
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by ralph 14y ago
I recently read a news article that said making roughly in the middle of a night's sleep is natural and you should just expect to doze off again rather than worry about it occurring.
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by ralph 14y ago
No, unless one understands the subtleties, it may be best to use -i. $ sudo -s $ pwd /home/ralph $ exit $ sudo -i root@orac:~# pwd /root root@orac:~# logout $ $ sudo strace -fe execve sudo -s ex
58.
by ralph 14y ago
I remember when this would have been considered noise here; now it's the top comment.
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by ralph 14y ago
Might you re-phrase the question? tail -f won't stop so when do you want the screen to clear?
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by ralph 14y ago
The OP says to use long-options at all times when not at the command prompt. All this other stuff is a scenario you're placing around it to try and justify it.

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