mlegendre

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by mlegendre 9mo ago
And conversely, `/dev/stdout` (resp. `/dev/stderr`) is a convenient way to "redirect" output to stdout (resp stderr) instead of a file
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by mlegendre 9mo ago
Or you can use `/dev/stdin`, which has the upside of not needing tool support. I somewhat regularly use this on Linux. I think it also works on OS X
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by mlegendre 2y ago
Amusingly, in French, "desed" sounds like "décéde", which means die / decease. That's quite a fitting name for a tool one would use in "I need to debug a sed script" situations!
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by mlegendre 3y ago
The first link [1] in section "4. Code and test improvements" leads to a patch series with a cover letter which reads There are a number of tests that still follow an old convention of using four-space indentation. Update a
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by mlegendre 3y ago
Beware that the trailing slash in the string after `gitdir` is significant! This string is a globbing pattern (it is not obvious at first sight, and seldom mentioned), and the trailing slash implies `**` [1]. So if you type "gitdir:~&#
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by mlegendre 3y ago
> LineageOS is not the answer Could you expand on that? I am curious because I have been using LineageOS on Pixel 2 / Pixel 2 XL phones for a while (and it works very well, I might add), but I am kinda clueless when it comes to Andr
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by mlegendre 3y ago
Sadly I can't remember this part; I'm pretty sure there were comical bits to it. This makes me want to dig out the gitlab issue, and turn it into a better write-up! This'll have to wait until I'm back from holidays thoug
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by mlegendre 3y ago
Your mouse story makes me think of the day the CI system at work turned out not to be robust to vibrations. One day we started having flaky tests, seemingly out of nowhere. We quickly identified that the issue affected tests involving graph
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by mlegendre 3y ago
This enables the C-r / M-c / C-t key bindings, but there's also a completion.bash file. This enables the "**" completion trigger, which can contextually complete paths, envvar names or PIDs in commands. (See "F
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by mlegendre 4y ago
I am now reading The Grug Brained Developer for the first time, and thoroughly enjoying every minute of my time. Thank you for writing this!
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by mlegendre 4y ago
> If you're a paying user it's 5GB per repository. TFA says 10 GB (and so does my experience). > A namespace is basically a user or project I believe you meant to write "a user or a group".
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by mlegendre 4y ago
"Reproducible environments" sounds like a strong argument to me. If you don't have a reproducible environment, you have no guarantee that your code will work at any point in time. The more complex the projet and its dependenc