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One particularly mnemonic collection of switches is 'plane': perl -plane 'my $script' which iterates over all files given on the command-line (or stdin) and + (p)rints every proces…

[Late reply -- forgot to hit the button. ;] Thank you for the pointer and, more so, your contributions. That screenshot of SICP in Emacs -- running side-by-side with the built-in G…

If you wanted to delve into the original 1984 LISP/Scheme version by Abelson and Sussman, I recommend you take a look at https://opendocs.github.io/sicp/sicp.pdf which is based on …

What? Do the docs on the page really say that[0]? ':back' is mapped to 'H' -- in correspondence to the usual Vi/Vim paradigm to move the cursor with the home-row keys, hjkl. ':open…

Neat, thanks. Works identically with the slightly smaller fork called Pentadactyl ( http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/ ).

FDE: Full Disk Encryption.

Sure, I'll try to elaborate. Suppose you're reading a biography of Huygens. You may find yourself inspired to memorize a few of the basic facts therein. Dutifully, you feed his lif…

I wrote a program I fancifully called 'Human Unit Tests' to aid me in my studies (learning a diverse set of constants for biophysics). I can very much attest to the effectiveness o…

I simply cannot wrap my head around the direction of the Unicode discourse. We're discussing the appropriate code-point for different smiley faces, obscure electrical symbols[0] or…

The author states, as regards the interpretation of the Dunning-Kruger diagrams, that [i]n two of the four cases, there’s an obvious positive correlation between perceived skill an…

The word seems entirely appropriate. As a European, I have not been able to convince family members or friends that aren't intimately acquainted with the US-American situation that…

It is astonishing to me, how widespread fisher-wife's-tale-level conceptions about fundamental aspects of our existence are. I devoutly hope that you are not, upon contemplation, e…

The author tells me to 'Please enable Javascript!' I counter: 'Please enable HTML!' In all seriousness, it's text, images, links. There are no user accounts, no dynamically updated…

The counter on the kindly linked donation page went from EUR 49.470 to EUR 65.126 in the last 60 minutes (precisely).

The point isn't easily settled, it seems: I am having a hard time to find financial statements from Debian. Ubuntu, or rather Canonical, being a private company, doesn't seem to re…

Those are some rather interesting documents, thanks! In 2013 FSF paid $ 689,239 in salaries and, astoundingly!, $ 48,995 in credit card fees.

I freely confess to being flabbergasted by these displays of less-than-rigorous thought processes. How would a free software project 'pay it forward'? They are in a very similar po…

You are using Ubuntu, I see from your profile. How much have you paid them? This is how the stories goes: we haven't figured out how to make good work worthwhile. Perhaps we can le…

Ah, but what is discipline? Shifting the vocabulary burden around doesn't accomplish much. Discipline easily translates to will power (to do even in the face of adverse circumstanc…

A monitor like this would be the end-all-be-all for my scientific workflow woes. The paper du jour on the e-ink and the journal and ipython on what I call "the lightbulb" (read: TF…

The Gimp has certain, err, noteworthy notions about user interface design. Nevertheless, single-window mode has been around for years (I think): Select 'Windows'->'Single-Window Mo…

s/odd/sane/: This oddity you've identified is precisely the reason people like me are interested or even invested in the project. Must everyone worship at the altar of smudgy scree…

As the article referenced here is rather light, here is the actual paper of the mentioned study (open access): http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... , and…

On Debian (and, I'm sure other distributions of GNU/Linux) the 'bsdgames' package contains a simple program called 'arithmetic' which poses similar challenges, albeit reduced to th…