Alexios Zavras (zvr)

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@MongoDB S S P L

Write a developer horror story in 5 words or less. 🎃

(US) Federally funded research to be openly available upon publication (no more publisher embargo) whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 That was not a healthy dose Some would say an overdose Didn’t mind staying in Now sporting a constant grin – thanks, @brian_bilston

@peterhoneyman Can you fit a couple of days in Munich?

itinerary for the fall is firming up 4 weeks in paris 1 week in florence 2 weeks in castiglion fibocchi 1 week in amsterdam 3 weeks in stockholm

Congrats, @irene_vlachou et al ! material.io/blog/roboto-fl…

The Go Programming Language and Environment, by Russ Cox, Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, Ian Lance Taylor, Ken Thompson. #golang Communications of the ACM, May 2022, Vol. 65 No. 5, pp 70-78. cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022…

Good things are worth the wait: new episode of the podcast on Logic Programming "The Search Space" (@searchspacepod) by @felixhgren: this time @ChekovFeeney discusses @TerminusDB. The last bit (updates on new directions since the interview) leaves a bitter taste, unfortunately.

RIP Christopher Alexander

RIP William Hurt

RIP Sven Guckes :-(

RIP Lorinda Cherry :-(

@codesennin ... an email client. :-P

@peterhoneyman I use "stare"

Wordle 198 3/6* 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 does everyone have a favorite first guess? mine is saint/satin/stain depending on my mood. (are antis and insta legit?)

Wordle 198 6/6 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟨🟨🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟨🟨 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 This took me forever, I mean I was completely stumped. Eventually I hauled out grep and /usr/dict/words and discovered that there was no solution without reusing a letter. #TIL

@restless_day @UnixToolTip But it doesn't work when there are no lines.

@UnixToolTip awk '{ total += NF }; END { print total }' does the same and is shorter.

Awk script to count the number of words in a file: awk '{ total = total + NF }; END { print total+0 }'

@anubhav_x61 @UnixToolTip If there are no lines, t is empty, not the number zero.

@bruce_downs @UnixToolTip If there are no lines, t is empty, not the number zero.

@UnixToolTip Even shorter still ... awk '{t+=NF};END{print t}' And what's the purpose of the original `total+0`?

Germany in a frenzy after close election:

@CoolSWEng Where is the "non-ambiguously" part in the command?

17 English words can be expressed non-ambiguously through the contraction <first-letter><number-of-removed-letters><last-letter>. For more Unix command-line magic see spinellis.gr/unix?tw210729

RIP Robert Downey Sr.