The Nineteenth Byte

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lyxal

It's so useful I pinned it

It's so good having connections in high places

lyxal

I'd be lost in the multitudes of all the things to do with networking without that diagram

Rydwolf Programs

6:26 AM

@user Unless the connection is congested or dies, ofc :p

I mean, I'd be pretty sad if lyxal died, but I wouldn't care much if he became congested :P

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

8:21 AM

@user you forgot one reason: “the host hates you”

That’s when you’d get a 4xx error.

Like 418 I’m a teapot

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Sandbox Posts

12:35 PM

Numbers with variable repeating digits The number \${4...4}1\$ can be written as the expression \$\frac{4 \times 10^{a+1} - 13}{9}\$, where the variable \$a\$ represents the number of \$4\$s. Given such a number, output its corresponding expression. Rules The term doesn't have to be in the simpl...

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

@TheEmptyStringPhotographer Then it wouldn't be loss though

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12:51 PM

Wow.

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

1:13 PM

What if SE posts used git?

Sandbox Posts

Decode Caesar cipher based on a given text I can't think of a better name. This is similar to this challenge, but a lot easier. Read three strings which contain only uppercase letters. The length of the first and second strings are the same. The second string and the third string are encrypted us...

@TheEmptyStringPhotographer Git isn't actually very good

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3:24 PM

@mousetail takes a look at GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket and countless other popular providers using git ok…

TIL: Microsoft owns GitHub

Neil

Microsoft had to contribute to git to make it work with large repos, in much the same way that Facebook had to contribute to hg

3:49 PM

@TheEmptyStringPhotographer That does not mean git is good

Neil

4:03 PM

yeah it took ages to get some decent command names

4:18 PM

@mousetail Why would people use git if it wasn’t good?

Why do people use PHP?

Git innovated the idea of distributed source control. Nothing like it existed at the time. But it's interface is needlessly confusing in a lot of ways, but now it's the de facto solution everyone uses it and other tools like Mercurial or Bazar or newer things can't really get traction even if they are better

Git is miles ahead of SVN and similar non-distributed tools though

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