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give us back rcs !!

I missed what the GNU tools are supposedly to blame for. In 30+ years, that's the first I've heard that the GNU tools are to blame for anything.

@overexchange I'm also noting that you have an extremely poor record of accepting answers. If you want people to spend time helping you, it may benefit you to actually accept the most helpful answers.

I was happier 10 minutes ago

@jesse_b CSS stands for "Cause of Stress and Suffering".

Point is that foo.github.io is for hosting pages, and github.com/foo is for hosting code. You can have a .com without a .io and there is no need for any html if you just want the .com to store your code.

/dev/chat remains so powerful that users are now helping themselves :)

It’s the new version of rubber duck debugging

@EnthusiastiC Tip: if you have GNU sort, you may use the --debug option to see the effect of the options you are using. E.g sort --debug -bk1,1

English is hard

If you feel a question would be of interest to people here, then stick around, explain why it would be interesting, add some context. Don't just dump a link that will one-box and walk away.

In the battle between you and the world, bet on the world

I'd like any US political chat to take place in a Politics chat room, perhaps 2020 United States presidential election, please & thank you!

@terdon I mean, we were hoping for someone that could spell, but you'll do

@HannahVernon the vim of the people? Another dig at poor vim ;)

"I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids!"

I believe you mean your obligation to be pedantic.

Diomidis Spinellis’ and Paris Avgeriou’s paper on the Evolution of the Unix System Architecture has been published and is available in open access: doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2019.2892149

@AndrasDeak reminds me of the time my wife couldn't find her keys; I reassured her, saying: "There there, they're there"

Yeah, I mean don't tell anyone (I have a reputation to maintain) but I use regexes every single time I need to parse HTML.

current consensus is "magic"

LEEEEEEEEEROY JENKINS

Thanks. I'll take the opportunity to tell you how much I appreciate the quality of your answers here. It's rare to come across people spending the time and effort to get to the bottom and get a complete understanding of things as you do. On top of that, and at least as precious, you're able to communicate it beautifully which I'll never be able to achieve. Please keep it going!

WHILE I'M HERE DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO TURN OFF CAPS_LOCK IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY HAVE IT TURNED ON WHEN YOU RUN SETXKBMAP -OPTION CAPS:SWAPESCAPE, YOU DON'T HAVE AN ESCAPE KEY, AND THUS END UP WITH NO WAY TO ACCESS THE CAPS_LOCK MODIFIER ANY MORE?

Election time!

just to be safe: foo [-bar] <{([ -n NODE | -t TICKET ])}>

@Kusalananda surely if there's a JSON juggler's journal then there'd also be a shell-scripting script and an ed editorial, along with the boring bash book that bashes bash on page after page

There's also "subscriptions" from your network-level account; that can send you emails basd on matches.

I don't keep up these days, but one thing that has helped me find questions that I'm interested in are the "watched tags" (available from your profile -> Settings -> Tag watching & ignoring). Then you can use the /questions view and add a Filter of "Tagged with: my watched tags" and whatever other filters you want.

But "you should be making a cake instead (and here's how)" is an answer to "how can I parse XML with a regex" :P

experts are just people who’ve accepted that they’ll forever be noobs

People complain about the hostility on this site but I think I see it most from new users asking questions

My job is requiring we do skill self assessments and my minimum required skill in bash is "expert" which I can't give myself that rating because I know you all. Thanks :(

"we do what we must, because we shouldn't" LOL

Also, Stephen, I did not specify how many milliseconds. A response time of 1200000 milliseconds is arguably a millisecond response time!

I thought I knew bash, then I joined U&L

@FaheemMitha Ah, that explains it. I don't do stupid things.

is that the sound corn makes just before it pops?

chrome sucks, use firefox

I’m thinking that Kali should hide their download links behind a penetration testing capture the flag problem...

This is great:

Election chat room

Wow, it happened! Someone posted a question in an Answer, got the message through the review queue, and posted a real Question! I'm just not used to this!

e.g. my biggest problem in replying to Stéphane is not whether they're a he or she, but that I don't remember the keyboard shortcut for é and so I have to copy/paste every time.

It's getting way too hard to donate blood anymore. They ask too many questions like "Why is there so much? Why is it in a garbage bag? Where did you get this blood?"

@NordineLotfi mywiki.wooledge.org/Bashism