rbonvall

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by rbonvall 3mo ago
Yes, that's the smoking gun!
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by rbonvall 3mo ago
Socks are not getting lost; they are getting compacted to keep the context window small.
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by rbonvall 4mo ago
(It's Barcelona)
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by rbonvall 5mo ago
In the soccer world, there is the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), that decides several rankings and awards that are regularly cited in traditional media. For example, if a player from my not-quite-footba
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by rbonvall 5mo ago
Note that it's not a European thing. It's how most football leagues around the world work.
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by rbonvall 5mo ago
Of course. It's distributed.
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by rbonvall 5mo ago
Just like that place that's so crowded nobody goes there anymore.
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by rbonvall 7mo ago
That doesn't explain the "punctuating with multiple cryface emojis".
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by rbonvall 8mo ago
Lies, Damned lies, and Unreasonable Effectiveness For Fun and Profit
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by rbonvall 10mo ago
Example of replacing grep+cut with a single awk invokation: $ echo token:abc:def | grep -E ^token | cut -d: -f2 abc $ echo token:abc:def | awk -F: '/^token/ { print $2 }' abc Conditions don&#x27
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by rbonvall 11mo ago
I use dtrx, which also ensures that all files are extracted into a folder.
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by rbonvall 11mo ago
Python also pretty-prints out of the box: $ echo '{ "hello": "world" }' | python3 -m json.tool { "hello": "world" }
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by rbonvall 1y ago
> I have always wondered what would happen if someone had to invent spreadsheets from scratch, today. This is exactly what Joel Spolsky did: > What was I talking about? Oh yeah… most people just used Excel to make lists. Suddenly w
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by rbonvall 1y ago
Reminds me when Scala was translated to German some time ago, at about the same time of the year: https://scala-lang.org/blog/2017/04/01/announcing-skala.html
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by rbonvall 2y ago
Since no other pedants have chimed in yet, I'm required to point out that 20 years is five olympiads , which is the timespan in between six Olympic games.
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by rbonvall 2y ago
Just like Niklaus Wirth's quote about how people used to call him, or the joke about there being 10 kinds of people. Those are the ones that make me wish people knew just enough Computer Science to get them :)
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by rbonvall 2y ago
In my opinion, shell scripting is the right tool when you need to do a lot of calling programs, piping, and redirecting. Such programs end up being cumbersome in "proper" languages.
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by rbonvall 2y ago
The most important benefit is not that you CAN unwrap a value, but rather that you CANNOT NOT do it.
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by rbonvall 2y ago
Sbt is too complex and powerful for its own good. I had a love-hate relationship with it, and now I try to avoid it if I can. I like scala-cli a lot. It's very promising, but I think it's too new to be proclaimed best-in-class yet
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by rbonvall 2y ago
If I was you I wouldn't bother. The cool thing is not the game itself, it's the fact that we "old folks" just know what to do right away :) If you need to read instructions, probably you'll find the game dull anywa
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by rbonvall 2y ago
This document was made by a specific globe manufacturer, so it probably isn't meant to be used to date arbitrary globes, but only theirs.
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by rbonvall 3y ago
Awk doesn't have a way to define function-local variables. All variables are global, except for function parameters. This spacing convention is meant to clearly separate mandatory parameters and optional parameters that are sometimes o
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by rbonvall 3y ago
Once I put the effort to understand code like this and it turned out it's straightforward once you learn the conventions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19421524
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by rbonvall 3y ago
It's because the characters in the result can be one of 10 digits or one of 26 letters.
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by rbonvall 3y ago
Commenting on the internet is note-taking for jerks.
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by rbonvall 3y ago
I think that's precisely the problem with YAML. By being so unpredictable, it turns from "format I use without thinking much about" into "format that makes me spend a lot of time finding out what's wrong this time&q
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by rbonvall 3y ago
Side note: you can simplify the first line like this: DOMAINS=(login controlplane log derp{1..24}-all)
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by rbonvall 3y ago
People seem to do fine dealing with iterators—which are defined by their operations (hasNext, next) and are convenient because they have a dedicated syntax (foreach)—without the need for enlightenment from esoteric "iterator tutorials&
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by rbonvall 3y ago
He doesn't. That's the point.
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by rbonvall 3y ago
"Each cell is a monad" makes as much sense as "41 is a commutativity".

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