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I too think we're growing hypersensitive, but that's not the only argument for switching to a different picture: the the model has requested the image not be used, long ago IIRC.

Github can't even recognize syntax, let alone provide semantic diffs! In fact, Github can't even tell that foo.cpp.in is different from foo.mk.in! Any foo.t is declared to be Perl, with no way to fix it…There are a decade-old tickets!

> Do you know how to read @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ syntax?

Do you not?

Windows has focus issues too. Eg. when I launch Windows Terminal, whether from the Start menu or the pinned icon in Taskbar, it renders the window focussed at first, but as soon as the shell finishes initialization the window loses focus.

This one is a little difficult: the book is laden with multilingual dialogue and notes apparatus; it's not for everybody. That said, I first read The Name of the Rose when I was 11 or 12, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Catch-22. I was maybe 11 on my first reading, and read it once a year until I was 19 or so. The book grew darker and darker on each reading, without changing a word. (I've read it a bunch of times since, just not every year. )

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. My mother read it to me before I could read. I thought it was a great adventure book!

I don't know anyone who liked The Little Prince when they were kids, regardless of their appreciation of the book as adults.

I disliked it as a kid for the same reasons I've loved it (and Exupéry's other aviator stories) as adult: it's abstract and impressionist.

The article is specifically about "finfluencers", which I can't help but read as "active participants in shitcoin pump-and-dump schemes", and find the self-reported numbers of "saved money" and "made money" suspect.

Alternatively, the finfluencers in question could be coffeezilla, that would check out. ;-)

> # yes | head -c 512 > foo

How about `truncate -s 512 foo`?

I, too, thought that chimps learning from each other was nothing new (Jared Diamond, etc).

Besides that: I haven't read either study, just the article, so who knows what were the actual claims, but…

The article opens with:

> chimpanzees can learn skills from their peers so complicated that they could never have mastered them on their own.

Which you object with:

> Basically, the study is showing that a chimp can teach other chimps something humans trained it to do.

and:

> I am not sure the study is showing human like “cumulative culture”.

That reads a bit like rejecting evolution because we haven't fully replicated abiogenesis (yet).

Is "humans trained it to do" in "a chimp can teach other chimps something humans trained it to do" so important?

Children were most probably routinely exposed not just to nudity but also sex.

How did you "commit locally" with Subversion twenty years ago? And if "local commits" were a thing, what was Svk for?

Scrolling in the webpage crashed my browser (Firefox, ios).

I understand these two formulations to be equivalent. Would you spell out the difference? For me? Thx!

What do you mean? It's specifically for $(cat …) / $(< …): the latter is a faster equivalent of the former. Other than that, see my comment about $READNULLCMD.

> for multi-line strings, I almost always use |, and only |. It takes the indented block as-is

Except it doesn't. Try using

    steps:
      - run: |
          > f echo not redirected

in Github Actions.

It's built-in in Zsh: The substitution ‘$(cat foo)’ may be replaced by the faster ‘$(<foo)’.

https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#Comman...

cat is a verb though

Press alt and dot (full stop) to insert last word from the previous command line:

    $ cat file
    $ grep stuff alt-.

Alternatively, make use off the READNULLCMD mechanism in Zsh:

    $ < file

translates to

    $ ${READNULLCMD:-more} < file

Thus you can

    $ < file

then UP (or ctrl-p which I find more ergonomic) and continue with "grep stuff":

    $ < file grep stuff

(Redirections can be anywhere in the command.)

https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Redirection.html#Redi...

Intel was receiving continuous beatings from AMD (Ryzen/Epyc) a few years before Apple came up with M1. 2016/2017 vs 2020. I don't think Apple and Intel are in much competition: Intel doesn't make laptops and lacked Apple's moat when they did, and Apple doesn't sell (amd64) server CPUs.

> According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the fourth-generation iPhone SE will feature a 6.1-inch OLED display.

Well, there goes the humanely usable phone size, my reason to buy an iPhone.

> The functions defined in libxo are used to generate a choice of TEXT, XML, JSON, or HTML output. A common set of functions are used, with command line switches passed to the library to control the details of the output.

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libxo&sektion=3&ap....

See ps(8) for example use: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ps&apropos=0&sekti...

You mean it's not just a hypothesis.

I would really, really expect users of this site to know the difference.

And yet, biology has grown with the complexity of the cell as we know it, as opposed to the bronze/iron-age myths of near-east goat herders.

What's the trademark situation? Can if keep using "nginx" in the name?

I like the article, and I agree with the conclusion; I don't like that the title is click-bait.

Rest assured that a company that'll have domestic candidates jump through ill-advised hoops subjects the off-shore ones to the same bullshit.

Incorrect. Perl (5.x) has seen 10 stable releases in as many years, IOW since 2014.

> what you’re seeing is a good content, but worth considering when you get shown policy-charged content - when and why is this in my feed.

That's always a worthy, necessary even, consideration.

> you should try to answer the second part of your comment - why is a state-sponsored social media company the only one showing me this right now?

You may be right in this specific case, and I tend to agree - though mostly out of lack of knowlege.

But I gotta object the insinuation that private media is somehow more reliable. Every outlet has an agenda. Al Jazeera English is by far the best journalistic TV I know (disclaimer, haven't watched in a few years). Funded by the government of Qatar…

I have no experience with macOS, or trouble believing that it's even worse than Windows. That said: I can't use WSL or PowerToys at work for (enforced) dumb policy reasons - this is possible because they're optional bolt-ons as opposed to integral parts of Windows. PowerToys exists because the the base functionality is poor, and the contemporary PowerToys implementation leaves a lot to be desired. And last but definitely not least, window management in Windows, with or without PowerToys, sucks donkey balls IMO, especially in heterogenous multi-monitor systems. Aggravated by the knee-capped taskbar. I mean, it's not like window management is great anywhere, but claiming that it's somehow good in Windows is rich.

Two anecdotes: starting Windows Terminal by clicking an icon in the taskbar (W10) creates a window that's not focused. W11 does away with the alt-space keyboard shortcut to open the window operations menu.