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If there is ONE THING the Unix world needs, it is for bash/ksh/sh to stop diverging further by permitting STUPID INPUT that cannot plausibly work in all other shells. We are in a post-Postel world. — OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in shell scripts
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Accept multiple ways that users can ask for help and respond in kind. — Shell Script Best Practices
One of my favorite post-punk band from the 80’s. Big Ups: Bauhaus’ Kevin Haskins Dompe and David J Haskins Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites.
Python’s multiprocessing performance problem. Lot of interesting tips and tricks for those using the multiprocessing module. #python
Plotting data in the terminal with gnuplot. Still one of the most underated plotting tool for quick one-liner.
Some Stata tutorials on survival analysis that are worth a read. #stata
If we do not understand both the data and the models completely, it becomes very difficult to spot problems in the software we use to work on them: unexpected behaviour arising from software bugs may be mistaken for a peculiarity in either of them. It is then crucial that we minimise the chances of this happening by applying all the best engineering practices we have at our disposal. — The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning.
Dissecting the GZIP format. Very interesting read for those interested in compressing techniques. #clang
If you need an easy way to convert MS docx to a PDF from the command line, don’t forget that lowriter
(from Libre Office) has option to convert any document on the fly.