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thestoicattack | 1 year ago | on: Entering text in the terminal is complicated

> the readline keybindings come from Emacs

> Because I’m a vim user, It took me a very long time to understand where these keybindings come from

libreadline supports a basic vi mode. In bash, `set -o vi` lets you use vim-style editing. It is a lifesaver.

thestoicattack | 1 year ago | on: Book Review: "Tidy First?" By Kent Beck

git blame does include --ignore-rev and --ignore-revs-file, so maybe if people updated such a file when making small edits, it would make your life easier.

thestoicattack | 2 years ago | on: Two GitHub bots not talking to each other on a PR

Dead github theory.

thestoicattack | 3 years ago | on: How to check if any word is zero (2021)

GCC turns a fold over a parameter pack into test/sete and turns std::min == 0 into cmp/cmovg: https://godbolt.org/z/TjK7Gz74M

thestoicattack | 3 years ago | on: Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (2018)

In the novel, Rico is Filipino.

thestoicattack | 3 years ago | on: U.S. court rejects Tether’s bid to conceal reserve records from the public

Yeah, I had to click through that article, which didn't link the docket, to get to a tweet with an image of a scan of a two-page order granting leave to file. It seems completely unrelated to the headline. Even the word "reject" is the opposite of what happened.

thestoicattack | 3 years ago | on: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang

Ada too, I think.

thestoicattack | 3 years ago | on: -h –Help -help Help –? –?

> No doubt it's similarly easy using the vi keybindings.

I'd do kbihelp for the first and k2bdwA for the second.

thestoicattack | 3 years ago | on: Bitcoin Threw a Party in Miami and I Crashed It

> Emmy Noether, Lisa Randall, Elise Meitner, Vera Rubin

Chien-Shiung Wu!

thestoicattack | 3 years ago | on: Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics

A new analysis from Fermilab measures the W boson as 76 MeV heavier than the Standard Model predicts. The uncertainty in the measurement is 9 MeV.

thestoicattack | 4 years ago | on: Learning Standard C++ as a New Language [pdf]

(1999)

> Published in the May 1999 issue of "The C/C++ Users Journal"

thestoicattack | 4 years ago | on: Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C

The article does mention at least one advantage, so it's not as if the ladder is being pulled up for no reason.

thestoicattack | 4 years ago | on: Linuxgems – A succinct cheat sheet for newbie Linux coders and sysadmins

As a note,

    find . -type f -exec grep stuff {} \;

will also invoke a new grep process for every file, which can be slow. If you think find is going to return a lot of files, it is often better to use

    find . -type f -exec grep stuff {} +  # note plus sign

which will replace {} with as many filenames as allowed (all correctly quoted, etc).

thestoicattack | 4 years ago | on: Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)

I can't remember my terminal emulator ever crashing, much less crashing due to memory corruption. Maybe I've just been lucky.

thestoicattack | 4 years ago | on: Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died

I'm glad his memoir, "Carrying the Fire", got mentioned. It's one of the best astronaut memoirs.

thestoicattack | 4 years ago | on: 2020 Census Apportionment Results

House seat changes by state:

    (+2) TX
    (+1) CO, FL, MT, NC, OR
    (-1) CA, IL, MI, NY, OH, PA, WV
     (0) everyone else

thestoicattack | 4 years ago | on: C++ Alternative Operator Representations

You could also use std::bit_not

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/functional/bit_not

thestoicattack | 4 years ago | on: Illegal Prime Numbers

We do have such a digit-extraction algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%9...

thestoicattack | 5 years ago | on: Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust

std::move_iterator was my first thought too, but I'm not sure if it works, since the key type for std::unordered_map is defined to be const, so you may have to make a copy anyway.

Maybe use a vector-of-pointer-to-pair, since we're leaving the map around and we don't really need the vector to own anything.

thestoicattack | 5 years ago | on: The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)

That's basically modern C++, if you cut out all the things that aren't slices, destructors, and copy/move semantics.