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Sorry to be pedantic, but the wonderful “planning” quote is actually from Dwight Eisenhower ( https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower#From_the_... ).

Belarus’s human rights abuses and crimes against humanity (as defined by the ICC) are highly relevant no matter whether its government signed the statute or not, or whether its gov…

It’s interesting that (a) a military grade nerve agent was used, (b) the dosage given was sub-lethal, and (c) Putin had no qualms about releasing Navalny to German care. Makes you …

I’m so sorry people have to suffer from such awful behavior. Last year a troll at my company Slacked his friend a horribly misogynistic remark about a women’s mentorship group meet…

That’s what I understand too. (I worked on the Quartz Core team for a couple years at BAML.)

I bet he just aliased commands for expository reasons: “uniq” aliased to “unique”, and “tr A-Z a-z” to “lowercase”.

This is also a great way to keep several squadrons of reasonably capable fighters maintained and in operation. In a time of national emergency they (and their pilots) could be draw…

That’s correct, the US population density correlates fairly closely with the average annual rainfall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_rainfall_climato...

It’s there: > Chemical effects are especially problematic at the decomposition stage. Additives such as phthalates and Bisphenol A (widely known as BPA) leach out of plastic partic…

Safari on iOS would not render Nikita’s article until I killed and restarted it, nicely illustrating one of his key points.

No but he wins 10 times more often.

You are so right, thank you!

Awk is named after its authors at Bell Labs: Aho, Williams, and Kernighan.

Generally you generate a random UUID which is quite difficult to enumerate.

VoiceXML uses SSML to mark up text to be spoken to the user, and in fact the two standards were developed in parallel by the W3C’s Voice Browser Working Group.