murphyslaw

"Stars: Vint Cerf". I sure want to watch it now!

Isn't the fact that you now know that the conjecture is false a huge help? At least it will help convince people to look at the conjecture more closely, no?

BBC iPlayer is not available outside the UK.

I don't know if the one you're talking about is one of these, but in the many years I worked at Cisco they seemed to buy a company every few weeks. Many of them had decent products which Cisco then meticulously destroyed. Luckily there was always kit to preserve for future generations, which I dutifully stacked in my attic.

Proctologist General's warning: DO NOT PLACE IN RESTROOM.

If the end product is something like La Sagrada Familia, I'll pass.

Thank you for this tidbit of information!

I never take public transport because the noises drive me crazy. Earbuds help, but not enough to make it bearable.

You used to be able to add your own words to spellcheckers, somehow that went out the window. I rarely see the option for it on a red-lined word now in the context menu, and when it does adding the word seems to make no difference at all.

Shouldn't it be possible to simply state in the contract to use that tool only? I've had good success with that in my coding.

I believe that the biggest problem in the US is the constitution. It's next to impossible to change so the only way to fix it is replacing it entirely with a new one. But good luck with that...

You can pipe the fd directly:

# echo 1 >&2 2>| echo

It always exists on any Unix system. Even a busybox root environment. Why do you want to save a few bytes to compromise portability?

> You can use /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, /dev/stderr in most cases

Never ever write code that assumes this. These dev shorthands are Linux specific, and you'll even need a certain minimum Linux version.

I cringe at the amount of shell scripts that assume bash is the system interpreter, and not sh or ksh.

Always assume sh, it's the most portable.

Linux != Unix.