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birchb

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    Comment #35518812

    Date 1.4.2023

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    Comment #30668530

    I had a look at this library today. Quote the author: "The script library is implemented entirely in Go, and does not require any external userland programs." Sorry but that's not …

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    Comment #29127839

    Orca is great fun. I was inspired to start write a derivative application - A live-coding logic simulator using the same TUI ideas. I've just got past the prototype-hackery stage a…

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    Comment #26710222

    Mac binary https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni/releases/download/...

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    Comment #26633744

    No worries mate. Your point is basically 'What a fuss over a very simple bit of code.'? I'm as surprised as you are.

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    Comment #26633716

    did you try the '-format json' option?

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    Comment #26633702

    I love your enthusiasm, and thanks for the code. But 1) the above only works with sorted input and 2) adding it to find that would be like adding '-v' to 'cat' which as we know is …

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    Comment #26633620

    Um you can get actual trees with graphviz, or my favourite, YeD. I will add an example of that. https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni/issues/7

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    Comment #26633569

    Sure. https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni/issues/6

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    Comment #26633552

    OK good idea, I was coming round to that myself. https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni/issues/5

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    Comment #26633524

    I did not know that. But then it's BSD, right? http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ .

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    Comment #26633418

    I refer you to the answer I gave earlier.

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    Comment #26633397

    Grepping the _input_ is, like, Standard. Knowhatimean bruv?

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    Comment #26633365

    Sorry macos people, I don't own an Apple. (Not strictly true, I have an iMac rescued from a dumpster, but it's running Ubuntu now). Apparently greadlink is available https://stacko…

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    Comment #26622597

    Author here: Often I have to digest log files and lists of Azure resource names. I prefer to work with hierarchies of things, so I wrote this simple filter. Turns out to quite hand…

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    Comment #21862855

    Turing Complete

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    Comment #21861125

    These days devops workers often have no choice but to write scads of YAML for tools like GoCD, Concourse, K8s etc etc. To be efficient we turn to tools like Helm. But I recommend e…

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    Comment #16611939

    I absolutely adore the ambiguity in this HN title. Perfectly crafted. Well done.

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    Comment #13571964

    ASCII was invented in 1963, so the author's statement that Telex was ASCII-based is probably wrong. Is the rest of the article also as inaccurate?

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