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Oh that's embarrassing -- you're right, the first example doesn't make sense. Kinda pointless actually haha I use it for code like this: raw = IO.popen(%W[gzip -d -c -- #{path}]){_…

FYI, one of my favorite Ruby idioms is to capture command output with `open(...){_1.read}` pp open("|ls -lh /usr/bin/ls"){_1.read} "-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 135K Aug 30 04:57 /usr/bi…

Oh damn. I have been using `_1`, `_2`, etc. extensively for years... I didn't know about that footgun. I'd like know if `it` is merely an alias for `_1`, or if protects from this "…

I'm pleasantly surprised to see this improvement: Tempfile.create(anonymous: true) removes the created temporary file immediately. So applications don’t need to remove the file. [F…

Rest in peace, Bram. I was introduced to Vim by my father when I was a kid, and have been using it for the past 15 years. Your software has touched many lives.

I tried Mint. AFAIK Apple CC doesn't allowing pulling live transactions.

Oh nice. This is a very useful tip. I wish I knew that a month ago.

I had the same exact situation. I used the Apple card almost exclusively in 2022 because of the 1% card + 2% apple pay rewards. Doing taxes right now and I spent about 10 minutes m…

Well written story. Worth the read.

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I found out because my CircleCI jobs were failing to `npm install`. Guess the deploy will have to wait...

Ah. Yeah, that's what I have been doing. It took about an hour to send 100G initial ZFS seed over the network between different datacenters. Then I suspended all of the VMs and sen…

I've been doing this with several production PostgreSQL instances. PostgreSQL on ZFS is great. I have zstd compression enabled and I average 3.50x compression ratios. (Probably som…

This is fantastic. I am definitely going to look into the blktrace calls. They look useful. --- I've been looking for a way to copy virtual machine disks over the network with mini…

I'm 30 minutes north of Sacramento and can only get 2.5 Mbps from AT&T :/ Most of the time, I choose to use my cell phone as a hotspot in order to reliability video chat for work. …

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Location: Sacramento, CA Remote: PREFERRED Willing to relocate: YES (to Bay Area) Technologies: PostgreSQL, C, linux, Node.js/TypeScript/React.js Resume: https://notryan.com/resume…