I didn't know about the units program. Is there any resource out there that lists these little *nix utility programs?
That's the thing about unix-like systems. No matter how much you have learned there's always some command you don't know.
The 500-mile email (2002)
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paste was my most recent "holy shit this saves so much time" discovery. I blame it on the not quite intuitive name.
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#62Shouldn't this account for a round trip, and the speed through copper (~ 2/3rd of the speed of light)? That would lower the radius to much more than 500 miles.
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#64Another email incident at Microsoft worth reading [1]. [1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2004/04/08/10962...
Literally the exact same thing happened at Case Western this past weekend
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#65Who though it was going to be a TTL issue before finishing reading the story? :)
You probably mean something else (RTT?) but definitely not TTL, which is a completely different thing :)
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#66Damn statisticians. They do know their job quite well.
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#67Damn statisticians. They do know their job quite well.
It was a seriously accurate bug report. If only all users were so thoughtful.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the thing about unix-like systems. No matter how much you have learned there's always some command you don't know.
paste was my most recent "holy shit this saves so much time" discovery. I blame it on the not quite intuitive name.
What do you use it for?
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The Ultimate Ground Speed Check": http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favorite-sr-71-story-107912...
That was beautiful, thank you.
An other neat one is "sand won't save you this time", from the delightful "Ignition!" via the Things I Won't Work With series (well worth reading in and of itself, even for non-chemists): http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_sa...
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#70Absolytely a good reading. Sometimes this kind of readings can help in a complete different problem. Sometime happens you are dealing with another problem, then you remember this story, and you figure out what's wrong because there're some similarities. I remember to have fixed a problem with Postgresql remembering a story about Unicode and Postfix, different domain, but similar problem.