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by tzot 1y ago
Was there any reason not to use flow collection style, which would free the templates from significant whitespace?
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by tzot 1y ago
> Having had apps with YAML for config, and having had nightmares trying to copy/paste config directives from various sources, I just find whitespace to be unwieldy. Convert your YaML into JSON and save it in your YaML file. There i
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by tzot 1y ago
Even better the last segment of that one (specifically an aquatic organism): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092796/
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by tzot 1y ago
If the numeric argument to break is what you find interesting, then this is exactly the same construct as the shell's break argument: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
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by tzot 1y ago
Ctrl-Shift-C/V/X are not implemented in bash; it's the terminal emulator program that handles these. So the default terminal emulator of Ubuntu (gnome-terminal I assume, but ICBW) knows about a “system” clipboard and copies
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by tzot 1y ago
> On the other hand if you think that in 48Kb of RAM they had to fit the video RAM about 8 Kb, the BASIC compiler, my BASIC code, the compiled code and use some RAM for stack and variables ... crazy. Fun times... I had a Spectrum, and th
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by tzot 2y ago
ISTR the origin of Cyril and Methodius (the two monks that created the precursor to the cyrillic alphabet, can't remember the exact name of that alphabet ATM) cannot be pinpointed as either Greek or Bulgarian because no such documentat
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by tzot 2y ago
> When compared to encoding a value directly in binary, base64 has about a 25% overhead (6 bits /8 bits, 3/4). The original data take ≥25% less space than the base64-encoded data, but the base64-encoded data take ≥33⅓% more spa
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by tzot 2y ago
In a parallel universe, this thread is about the Beatles, where you woke up from the dream, found your way downstairs, had a coffee and somebody replied to your post.
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by tzot 2y ago
> Is there an advantage I'm not seeing over Ctrl+T My own experience is that all of the times I press Ctrl+T is to open a new tab to enter a location I want to navigate to; I don't care much for what the new tab displays (this
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by tzot 2y ago
I wrote a long text involving time travel, modern technology and video recording and finished with “What is the case name again?” It obliged by “You have 6 actions remaining. The case, as you well know, is building towards The People of the
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by tzot 2y ago
!!! When I wrote “I carefully and meticulously copy the discovered fingertips, and then ask Fitzpatrick for help.” and got back “Fitzpatrick watches with a mixture of amusement and bewilderment as you meticulously dust the glass pane with a
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by tzot 2y ago
> Undersea satellites? Yes. Saltellites.
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by tzot 2y ago
Think uint64_t buffer[1<<32]; and your “pointers” are indexes to that array: (void*)(buffer+index)
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by tzot 2y ago
This is not article-content-related but article-presentation-related: the trouble with 3-pixel-wide scrollbars is that you have to be very exact when you try to use them. Yes, there are scroll wheels and keyboard buttons, but forcing the mo
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by tzot 2y ago
No, you're not; however, since there weren't any comments here condemning PyShell's (lack of) speed and stating the absolute need for rewrite in another language[1], it was easy to deduce that Python-the-language really wasn&
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by tzot 2y ago
> I don't know where you get that "it makes no difference" opinion. It was a far hotter topic back when. After so many years, the only article I could locate (but unfortunately not one I did comment on) that I remember is
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by tzot 2y ago
Re your parenthesized question: x32, as discussed in the article, is an ABI using the full x86-64 instruction set and registers, but pointers are 32-bit. I believe you are talking about the same thing, because any “32-bit instructions” (ass
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by tzot 2y ago
x32 ABI support exists at least in the kernel of Debian (and Debian based) distributions, and I know because I've built Python versions (along with everything else needed for specific workloads) as x32 executables. The speed difference
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by tzot 2y ago
I always thought, maybe because of C, that \0??? is an octal escape; so in my mind \012 is \x0a or 0x0a, and \010 is 0x08. So I find this quite confusing; maybe OCaml does not have octal escapes but decimal ones, and \09 is the Tab characte
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by tzot 2y ago
So we basically can have ad-less documents where one can browse the content of a site unhindered?
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by tzot 2y ago
In Greek too.
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by tzot 2y ago
My threshold was at 176. I believe that an interval as threshold would be more interesting than a single value threshold. Perhaps if the user is shown N blocks from green to blue and then asked to drag&drop them to three buckets: green,
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by tzot 2y ago
My wife is definitely not a gamer. Although she plays some console games now and then, even recent (and recent-ish) Zeldas —passing the controller to one of our kids for the boss fights— she rarely turns on a console to play a game on her o
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by tzot 2y ago
Side point: television is a bastard word, but erogenous is not Greek eros + Latin genus; it's all greek (ἐρωτογενής — it would be erotogenous in English since the root of the word eros is erot- , but the extra syllable was dropped; ano
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by tzot 2y ago
> but that's not what happens in nature. Exactly. When it rains in nature, 95% of the times a) there isn't enough sunlight for the droplets to focus and make a burn spot, and b) the droplets don't stay on the leaf but flow
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by tzot 2y ago
> I’m reminded of what I often do at the shell with psub in fish. ksh and bash too have this as <(…) and >(…) under Process Substitution. An example from ksh(1) man page: paste <(cut -f1 file1) <(cut -f3 file2) | tee &
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by tzot 2y ago
Perhaps you're old enough to remember the Sledge's[1] motto: “Trust me… I know what I'm doing.” HHBS Perusing the pnut site I did not understand either why this is software I can trust. [1] https://www.imdb.com&#x2
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by tzot 2y ago
It is much simpler (and therefore less resource-hungry) than bash.
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by tzot 2y ago
I assume you were downvoted because downvoters would not believe your question was genuine. It is a fact that in the past groups of people have been ostracized, ignored, paid less, acknowledged less, respected less than today based on their

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