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As da_chicken pointed out, it's also a problem if you want to record a date like February 29, 1700, which is a perfectly valid date in the Julian calendar but simply doesn't exist in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

Dates are messy.

Which is one of the reasons that the Perl DateTime library just implements the proleptic Gregorian calendar (i.e. "let's just pretend we've always used Gregorian and the Julian calendar never existed")

This is the classic example of why you should always set the foreground color when changing the background color. Otherwise you end up with <code> blocks that are black-on-black. It probably works fine if your browser is in dark mode.

A workaround is to open one of the code elements in the browser's debugger and add color: white to the :not(pre) > code style.

Does it allow truly persistent mosh connections? I can't remember which iOS client it was, but I've used one which forgot I was connected if I left the app for long enough. The mosh process was still running on the server, but my iPad had forgotten how to talk to it.

I believe the primary use-case for devices like this is debugging "Why isn't this server rebooting?" without driving to the datacenter. Good luck figuring that out with AnyDesk or SSH.

Not to me. It says "System Initiative is an Intuitive, Powerful, and Collaborative replacement for Infrastructure as Code" but I still don't understand what it does or why I would want to use it.

He meant approximately half a bit. Base64 uses 64 characters, which means 6 bits per character. 50 characters gives you about 5.64 bits per character. Unlike Base64's 3-bytes-equals-4-characters, that never comes out evenly.

Let's face it, the Perl 5/PCRE regex syntax is atrocious. The only reason it exists is that (? was a syntax error in earlier regex syntaxes, so it could be redefined to mean anything.

Raku is an attempt to design a sane regular expression language from first principles, now that we know what we want them to be able to express. The alternative is being stuck with (?:this|(?>or that)) for the next 30 years.

I made a silverware holder custom-fit to my silverware.

I found a half-inch thick HDPE cutting board at a restaurant supply store, cut it to fit my drawer, then drilled holes in it and inserted short wooden dowels to hold the stacks of silverware in place. To position the dowels, I wrapped a nail in tape to match the diameter of the dowels, then placed my silverware on the board, slid the nail up next to it, and gave it a tap to mark the board where the holes needed to be drilled.

It worked really well and was quite easy to do. I highly recommend it.

redhat-release is a symlink to /etc/centos-release:

  $ cat /etc/redhat-release 
  CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core)

I've been using Joplin for a while now, syncing via Nextcloud.

One tip: I set up a cronjob to export into a Git repository so I have a complete history. The core of the script is:

  joplin sync
  joplin export --format=raw "$tmpdir"
  # Rsync that directory to the repository
  # This deletes files that no longer exist in the current export.
  /usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --delete --exclude=.git "$tmpdir/" "./"
  /usr/bin/git add -A

MATE is a GNOME 2 fork created to continue its development without the radical turn of GNOME 3.

Cinnamon is actually a GNOME 3 fork created to turn it back into a more traditional desktop environment.

XFCE is not a fork of any version of GNOME, although it does have a UI similar to GNOME 2 and is based on GTK.

Personally, I switched to XFCE back when GNOME 3 came out, and have been happy with it.