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How's that going with the numbers? Microsoft had this page where they explained that monetary amounts are formatted one way whereas other numbers are formatted another way. I found…

I believe GNU Emacs was created in 1984 or 1985, and it's still going strong. I guess it's not easy to work on it due to the long history, but I understand it's been refactored as …

Recursion. Very interesting. My daughter didn’t know much about programming, then started CS. The first semester language was Ocaml and they of course used recursion quite heavily …

I used to be a fan of tiling window managers, but I found out that I tend to use fairly visually heavy apps on a Mac. By this I mean apps that need quite a bit of screen real estat…

I switched from screen to tmux due to rumor about the screen code base. Maybe not a good reason. But I don’t regret it, tmux works well. Just an honest opinion of someone who didn’…

Telnet was available in the 90s. I reckon /dev/tcp is way more recent. GP did say a long time ago.

It sounded like something a screen reader would say to help visually impaired visitors. But I don’t actually have a clue what screen readers do say.

For the keys you don’t need to type quickly, M-x can also be typed as ESC x. For any character x. So it works well with M-|, but not so well with M-f, for example.

Your parent explicitly said amd64 which is the same thing as x86_64. Perhaps you misread amd64 and thought it was saying arm64?

I used to use tiling window managers on Linux, but I found out that my Mac usage contains lots of “graphical” apps that don't like to live in a quarter of the screen or something l…

Here is one thing: I work on a feature branch off of main. It takes me a bit and I want to rebase my branch onto the newest changes. It seems with the git command line the way to d…

I use lazygit as a ui. I like it. I think magit can do way more.

That’s true but boy howdy does pausing the program at a breakpoint change timing!

Data point: I develop in Java and I use IntelliJ. I run everything in debug mode. So it’s really easy for me to enter the debugger. But I find that if I have to step around more th…

It’s very interesting. I’ve tried to observe myself. It seems that if I can see a breakpoint somewhere and then examine state and then see what the problem is, a debugger is great.…

You’re misunderstanding. In those other apps the behavior is this: you open a document. You put the cursor on line 3 column 3. You use the mouse wheel or trackpad to scroll down to…

It’s autocomplete being based on words. It knows computer and it knows keyboard and so in English it is trivial to type computer keyboard. In German it also knows Computer and Tast…

I recall that inetd started a new instance of the demon for every incoming connection, and this caused lots of processes when lots of connections happened. I don’t recall whether y…

I wanted to like dark mode (before it was called that, back in the nineties), and I try again from time to time, but I've never been successful. I'm also not happy with Solarized b…

Docker desktop for Mac: dockerd runs in the VM and the client from the host system wants to connect. But of course we all hope that the network it is exposed to is still only on th…

Thank you. I wonder: is FTP that old? I kind of thought UUCP predated FTP. My parent mentioned email possibly being a special mode of FTP. _some poking around in Wikipedia_ Indeed,…

UUCP?

Challenge: which of the letters a to z and A to Z are NOT switches that modify the behavior of ls? I would guess that ls has at least 50 different behaviors based on the switches.

You may not be aware that it's a false friend. The German word Billion exists, and it means trillion. So the German reader will read the English article (in English, not auto-trans…

Java is compiled, too. The Java runtime is the JVM which runs byte code.