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Historical reference: https://jargondb.org/glossary/dwim

I used to use EDLIN on my MS/DOS days... .

The self portrait was a bit... pompous. https://x.com/karinanguyen_/status/1764789887071580657?s=20 > The entire structure would be in constant flux, rotating, morphing, and rearra…

Now, create a similar page for XPath...

No. I use GNU Units, because it will alert me if I screw up with units in my calculations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Units

Here's my personal finger exercise: https://pypi.org/project/talamus-relatable/ It allows references to another data structures.

Mentioned here: UNIX: A History and a Memoir https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/resources/pdf/UNIX-A-Hist... 5.3 Early Formatters The problem was that there was no interactive comp…

You can teach the AI a new item/character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Mcuh38wyM

My absolute favourite is the "Beauty in the Beast" album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_in_the_Beast Even if you do not know anything about music theory you will still feel …

We have the family password database in Google Drive. It works suprisingly well, and it haves file versioning.

This could explain the Mars methane mystery. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/first-you-see-it-t... https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex... >Methan…

Does this compete with the "units" definition format? https://fossies.org/linux/units/definitions.units

Like "Mail order CRISPR kits for everyone"? The scary part is that there actually already is a web site that sells those...

Isn't Erlang the language that you can edit/patch while it is executing? I think hard typing would be extremely difficult in that kind of environment.

I would probably watch that. At least it would be better than most of the things on the telly. Semi-oblig-xkcd: https://xkcd.com/284/

Don't use "gonad" javascript, or just use semicolons. With dangling balls: `(function(){})()` No dangling balls: `(function(){}())` https://gist.github.com/newswim/4668aef8a1f1bc0d…

I think that is mainly because of content control. Plain hotlinking is technologically simple, but a bad business practice.

Hopefully they have read the Jargon File: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html > Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so it was somew…

Or, you could say "Don't make me think": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Make_Me_Think Unfortunately UX people seem to hate boring and/or simple stuff...

And Infocom's Z-machine is from 1979: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine

For me the main problem with NTFS is the file locking. With Unix you can pretty much delete any file at any time (sudo ftw!) but not with WSL. Opening a file in an editor on the Wi…

1) Open inspector 2) Go to tag 3) Uncheck "font-weight: 300;" But why I have to do this...

I think BASIC is something that everyone has to write at least once in their lifetime. My personal take is here (over 7 year old code, beware): http://tech.nimbus.fi/minibasic/ And…

This reminds me of the description texts in heraldry. For example, the coat of arms of Finland: "Gules, semy of roses argent, a lion rampant crowned Or trampling a sabre in base pr…