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One of my "goto" tools is copying files over a "tar pipe". This avoids the temporary tar file. Something like: tar cf - *.txt | ssh user@host tar xf - -C /some/dir/

It's almost like a caricature of a CRT. I can see the novelty, but hope that people aren't lead to believe monitors looked like this. I think what bothers me most is the horizontal…

As an experimental feature, with no guarantees it would remain in the language. It wasn't marked a stable feature until v5.36 (2022).

In this case the Perl one-liner would be conceptually identical, the same length, but more performant (no calling out to rm): diff -rs a/ b/ | perl -ane '/identical$/ && unlink $F[…

> The other surprising thing is that you could actually run the Z80 in parallel with your 68000 when running a Genesis game. We used the Z80 as a sound co-processor running MIDI an…