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The 500-mile email (2002)

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Re: The 500-mile email (2002)

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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.

paste was my most recent "holy shit this saves so much time" discovery. I blame it on the not quite intuitive name.

Re: The 500-mile email (2002)

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Shouldn'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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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?

Re: The 500-mile email (2002)

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"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...

Re: The 500-mile email (2002)

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Absolytely 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.
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