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I wonder which language creator would be hired to figure that one out; are you creative enough to think of one on the spot?

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1v874lz/my... I submitted the above link, seems HN is rewriting it automatically. :-/

> My girlfriend sat me down on June 20th and told me that she had been cheating on me and was choosing to be with "the other man". > This is my body's reaction to that news. > HR, …

I think you should take a deep breath and read this updated FAQ: https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-magic-colon#why-... I am not asking anyone to put this in production, i…

This question seems to pop up all over the place, so I took some time to answer it here: https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-magic-colon#why-...

damn, nice one — definitely gonna use this myself (or variations thereof)!

DUDE! I wrote my first real `.ps1` the other day for auto-installing all dependencies needed to run a `gitea`-runner on windows for windows builds; powershell - felt like the lover…

I have never been in this situation before but I do agree with you, and honestly it feels very bad. I saw the comment when it was posted and, perhaps naively, thought "oh well, no …

They are NOT superflous, and all you need to prove it is `zsh` (but there are others that follow suit in similar fashions): zsh% echo "hello world" > data zsh% So, if you want some…

First of all, I must salute you on the joke; well put haha! --- It is a (contrived) example of usage where a command is required and `:` can fill in the blanks. There are certainly…

Hey jiveturkey, author here! I agree with you, and for what it's worth the truncation snippet is very much tongue-in-cheek much like `( : >> output ) && echo "is writable"`. I wasn…

Yo, author here. You are very much correct and I 100% agree with you, I have updated the first example to include a snippet where a proper env-var is used to show of the automatic …

The comment in question is a joke; it was never intended to be read as actual advice.

perhaps we better add a job to automatically order new IoT devices from amazon too; once a month is probably good enough not to suffer. I think we just invented Upgrades-As-A-Servi…

I remember when you were actually able to keep up with CVEs and you could (at least somewhat) prioritize patches while disregarding those which felt irrelevant. But now.. are we si…