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Yes, that's the smoking gun!

Socks are not getting lost; they are getting compacted to keep the context window small.

(It's Barcelona)

In the soccer world, there is the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), that decides several rankings and awards that are regularly cited in traditio…

Note that it's not a European thing. It's how most football leagues around the world work.

Of course. It's distributed.

Just like that place that's so crowded nobody goes there anymore.

That doesn't explain the "punctuating with multiple cryface emojis".

Lies, Damned lies, and Unreasonable Effectiveness For Fun and Profit

Example of replacing grep+cut with a single awk invokation: $ echo token:abc:def | grep -E ^token | cut -d: -f2 abc $ echo token:abc:def | awk -F: '/^token/ { print $2 }' abc Condi…

I use dtrx, which also ensures that all files are extracted into a folder.

Python also pretty-prints out of the box: $ echo '{ "hello": "world" }' | python3 -m json.tool { "hello": "world" }

> I have always wondered what would happen if someone had to invent spreadsheets from scratch, today. This is exactly what Joel Spolsky did: > What was I talking about? Oh yeah… mo…

Reminds me when Scala was translated to German some time ago, at about the same time of the year: https://scala-lang.org/blog/2017/04/01/announcing-skala.html

Since no other pedants have chimed in yet, I'm required to point out that 20 years is five olympiads , which is the timespan in between six Olympic games.

Just like Niklaus Wirth's quote about how people used to call him, or the joke about there being 10 kinds of people. Those are the ones that make me wish people knew just enough Co…

In my opinion, shell scripting is the right tool when you need to do a lot of calling programs, piping, and redirecting. Such programs end up being cumbersome in "proper" languages…

The most important benefit is not that you CAN unwrap a value, but rather that you CANNOT NOT do it.

Sbt is too complex and powerful for its own good. I had a love-hate relationship with it, and now I try to avoid it if I can. I like scala-cli a lot. It's very promising, but I thi…

If I was you I wouldn't bother. The cool thing is not the game itself, it's the fact that we "old folks" just know what to do right away :) If you need to read instructions, probab…

This document was made by a specific globe manufacturer, so it probably isn't meant to be used to date arbitrary globes, but only theirs.

Awk doesn't have a way to define function-local variables. All variables are global, except for function parameters. This spacing convention is meant to clearly separate mandatory …

Once I put the effort to understand code like this and it turned out it's straightforward once you learn the conventions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19421524

It's because the characters in the result can be one of 10 digits or one of 26 letters.

Commenting on the internet is note-taking for jerks.