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by vram22 3y ago
$ od -cx file or $ other_command_or_pipeline | od -cx is from early versions of Unix. Prints both character and hexadecimal representation of each byte in the input. $ man od
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by vram22 3y ago
Yes. Their Indian branch was called लाल टोपी https://translate.google.com/?sl=hi&tl=en&text=%E0%A4%B2%E0%...
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by vram22 3y ago
"Your problem with vim is that you do not grok vi". Yes, that StackOverflow answer (which starts with the above line) is one of the best I have ever read, on any subject, not just vim. (However, I should mention that I have not re
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by vram22 3y ago
IIRC, in this case, backslashes are not needed. You can just end each partial line of such long commands with a pipe sign and keep writing the rest of the overall command on subsequent lines, except for the last partial line, where you just
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by vram22 3y ago
Thanks, must read.
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by vram22 3y ago
Cool, thanks for mentioning it.
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by vram22 3y ago
And IIRC the command-line options were like tar; they could be typed without a leading hyphen.
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by vram22 3y ago
>There are other incentives like fun, passion, and anger that will break any economic model. Yes, because those incentives can't be reduced to numbers, which is the only thing the economists, bean counters and ambulance chasers, amo
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by vram22 3y ago
>Unrelated to the root post, but I’m so glad that time is over. There was a ~1year period where it was nearly impossible to have a conversation about solving something that didn’t involve someone scheming about how to reframe the problem
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by vram22 3y ago
By univs and research labs too, among others. Probably corps too.
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by vram22 3y ago
Nice one.
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by vram22 3y ago
DDJ and CUJ were two of favorite computer mags for a while.
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by vram22 3y ago
Nice try. Ch(e)ating, obviously. You omitted apartment in the replacement.
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by vram22 3y ago
Ha ha, good one. In fact, (shhh ...), that is the main purpose of all AI. ;-)
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by vram22 3y ago
It's an older generation thing. See Pop Tate in Archie comics [1], for example; the soda fountain guy. Guessing it's probably derived from Papa, like Pa, Paw (hillbillies), etc. ("Hillbillies" not meant derogatorily.) [1
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by vram22 3y ago
Was just going to mention 7-Zip after reading GP post, then read yours. Yes. I've used 7-Zip some, earlier, and found it to be quite good. IIRC, from both command-line and GUI.
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by vram22 3y ago
ChatGPT, GPT4, 5, 6, ... : Change all occurrences of flat to apartment, intelligently ! Got you! ;-)
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by vram22 3y ago
>every elementary school student has to memorize "please excuse my dear aunt sally" In Indian schools it used to be BODMAS, for Brackets Of Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction, for operator precedence, for which our te
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by vram22 3y ago
Which in turn exposes the assumption that longevity is desirable. See Steve Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford, 2005, where, among other things, he points out that we will all be recycled some day. https://youtu.be/U
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by vram22 3y ago
What do you say when you get an 8-core Pi? Hi, OctoPi!
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by vram22 3y ago
IIRC he was also at Google.
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by vram22 3y ago
Is it somewhat like grapefruit then? Never eaten a pomelo.
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by vram22 3y ago
IMO, reading books about operating systems internals / implementation, particularly the parts about disk management and file systems, block vs. character I/O, the buffer cache, fragmentation, etc., would help, too. Some are Unix-
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by vram22 3y ago
>Make a new cocktail with that name: >MetaPhorMetaPhysics Did that blow your mind? It doesn't meta.
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by vram22 3y ago
Ha! >If you mix a metaphor hard enough, it begins to taste like metaphysics Make a new cocktail with that name: MetaPhorMetaPhysics >If not, add more tequila. Not my poison. Mine is H2O, like in your username.
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by vram22 3y ago
>> One of the most important lessons the Jargon file has for "how to become a hacker", is "don't take anything too seriously." Change that to "how to live", and it is still true. :)
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by vram22 3y ago
>Sounds like "you can't learn true Judo without traveling to some mountain temple and eating nothing but rice and punching a brick wall all day for 3 years" Nothing but rice. Typical comment :) Let the other points go, but
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by vram22 3y ago
>Then the man pages make more sense. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix_Programming_Environme ... UPE for short, like K&R. Yes, totally. I'm sure there are some other good books about the subject of U
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by vram22 3y ago
Fuck off, dickhead. Not everything can be googled.
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by vram22 3y ago
Which of those are still used a good amount, particularly the first two? And mIRC is a client for the IRC system, right?

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