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I too think we're growing hypersensitive, but that's not the only argument for switching to a different picture: the the model has requested the image not be used, long ago IIRC.

Github can't even recognize syntax, let alone provide semantic diffs! In fact, Github can't even tell that foo.cpp.in is different from foo.mk.in! Any foo.t is declared to be Perl,…

> Do you know how to read @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ syntax? Do you not ?

Windows has focus issues too. Eg. when I launch Windows Terminal, whether from the Start menu or the pinned icon in Taskbar, it renders the window focussed at first, but as soon as…

This one is a little difficult: the book is laden with multilingual dialogue and notes apparatus; it's not for everybody. That said, I first read The Name of the Rose when I was 11…

Catch-22. I was maybe 11 on my first reading, and read it once a year until I was 19 or so. The book grew darker and darker on each reading, without changing a word. (I've read it …

I don't know anyone who liked The Little Prince when they were kids, regardless of their appreciation of the book as adults. I disliked it as a kid for the same reasons I've loved …

The article is specifically about "finfluencers", which I can't help but read as "active participants in shitcoin pump-and-dump schemes", and find the self-reported numbers of "sav…

> # yes | head -c 512 > foo How about `truncate -s 512 foo`?

I, too, thought that chimps learning from each other was nothing new (Jared Diamond, etc). Besides that: I haven't read either study, just the article, so who knows what were the a…

Children were most probably routinely exposed not just to nudity but also sex.

How did you "commit locally" with Subversion twenty years ago? And if "local commits" were a thing, what was Svk for?

Scrolling in the webpage crashed my browser (Firefox, ios).

I understand these two formulations to be equivalent. Would you spell out the difference? For me? Thx!

What do you mean? It's specifically for $(cat …) / $(< …): the latter is a faster equivalent of the former. Other than that, see my comment about $READNULLCMD.

> for multi-line strings, I almost always use |, and only |. It takes the indented block as-is Except it doesn't. Try using steps: - run: | > f echo not redirected in Github Action…

It's built-in in Zsh: The substitution ‘$(cat foo)’ may be replaced by the faster ‘$( https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#Comman...

cat is a verb though

Press alt and dot (full stop) to insert last word from the previous command line: $ cat file $ grep stuff alt-. Alternatively, make use off the READNULLCMD mechanism in Zsh: $ tran…

Intel was receiving continuous beatings from AMD (Ryzen/Epyc) a few years before Apple came up with M1. 2016/2017 vs 2020. I don't think Apple and Intel are in much competition: In…

> According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the fourth-generation iPhone SE will feature a 6.1-inch OLED display. Well, there goes the humanely usable phone size, my reason to buy a…

> The functions defined in libxo are used to generate a choice of TEXT, XML, JSON, or HTML output. A common set of functions are used, with command line switches passed to the libr…

You mean it's not just a hypothesis. I would really, really expect users of this site to know the difference.

And yet, biology has grown with the complexity of the cell as we know it, as opposed to the bronze/iron-age myths of near-east goat herders.

What's the trademark situation? Can if keep using "nginx" in the name?