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by ratrocket 4y ago
Not OP, but later in their comment they say: > [...] declining dessert because I’m trying to lose weight. Which is the sort of banal decision that “free will” has historically referred to. So, they shared that "free will" reall
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by ratrocket 4y ago
Exactly. The thing I'm talking about is necessarily a semi-manual process (data exploration, usually prior to migrating data from one system to another). In the example you give, when you've done all the exploration you need, the
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by ratrocket 4y ago
I can't answer for the person you're commenting to, but I use sqlite in a similar way and the loss of information isn't an issue. When you're exploring data, just trying to make sense of what someone has sent you (say,
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by ratrocket 4y ago
That might have to be version 5 of sqlite. Version 4 came and went: https://sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki > SQLite4 was an experimental rewrite of SQLite that was active from 2012 through
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by ratrocket 4y ago
This probably isn't what you're after, but you can blog via a pen & notebook with Paper website: https://daily.tinyprojects.dev/paper_website (no affiliation and haven't used it, but I love the idea and
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by ratrocket 4y ago
I believe "negative index" means array[-1] is the last element in array, array[-2] is the second-to-last element, etc. In the context of "cut", it would mean being able to do something like: cut -d" " -f1--2 th
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by ratrocket 4y ago
Here is a non-paywall link: https://archive.ph/8JxDm
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by ratrocket 4y ago
https://archive.ph/HIym3
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by ratrocket 4y ago
I was writing a (less informed!) sibling comment at the same time. Great observation that I hadn't considered: what I called a "labeled break" or "continue" is safer than bare goto since you can't jump from an
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by ratrocket 4y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding the mechanism (jumping to a label, right?), I thought most (well, lots of) languages supported this. Go does also: A non-minimal example using continue (but you can also break): https://go.dev&#x
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by ratrocket 4y ago
Presumably following on from recent posts around the web: https://j3s.sh/thought/my-website-is-one-binary.html (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30937515 ) and (inspired by the above)
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The three line single binary compiler free blog(flak.tedunangst.com)
2 points by ratrocket 4y ago|1 comments
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by ratrocket 4y ago
Apologies for forgetting that `godoc` isn't built in (and looks like jerf has fixed you up). I'd argue about what's "not especially useful", but "reasonable people will disagree", as they say!
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by ratrocket 4y ago
I share your opinion of the new official doc site, and also use https://godocs.io when I need online docs for something. But as another alternative, a sibling comment mentions running the docs locally, which is my main way to ac
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by ratrocket 4y ago
It's fun to write your own tools! (Scratch your own itch and all that.) It sounds like your "line" replicates a use of sed that I use all the time, printing a contiguous range of lines. The example: line file.txt 5 to 9 can
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by ratrocket 4y ago
Or: https://archive.ph/Qv2i3
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by ratrocket 5y ago
I don't really "buy" the reasoning[1] behind "no syntax highlighting" either, BUT I turned off syntax highlighting (in vim/neovim in my case) about 5 years ago (that was ~15 years into programming full time) an
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by ratrocket 5y ago
Totally true for the "big three", but Sourcehut hosts mercurial repositories: https://hg.sr.ht/ . (Unaffiliated, but a happy user.)
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by ratrocket 5y ago
> There's an interesting effect where you can take some text and, for each word longer than ~5 letters [...] I think you're referring to this (dubbed "Typoglycemia"): > Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervti
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Christopher Alexander has passed away(sustasis.org)
4 points by ratrocket 5y ago|0 comments
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by ratrocket 5y ago
I'm a big fan of miller (mlr) -- it's the tool I landed on when I needed to "graduate" from awk to look at CSV data. But when I read "go based" in your comment, I thought "nope, it's written in C&quo
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by ratrocket 6y ago
I don't remember where I read it (sorry), but I recall that "The Timeless Way of Building" and "A Pattern Language" were supposed to be, or were conceived as, one book. But it would've been way too long, so it
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by ratrocket 6y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I had some vague sense something like this was the case but wouldn't know where to even start looking for a confirmation of that sense. This makes the pieces fall into place, thanks!
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by ratrocket 6y ago
That's a nice Friday surprise..! My company is in the process of migrating from an in-house ecommerce platform to Shopify and we picked Stitchlabs for ... that piece (inventory mgmt? warehouse mgmt?). Oh well! Any suggestions for a &