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The Internet was Attacked Today
A very serious attack on the Internet occurred today. A large number of websites including alaya.net were unreachable for many hours. I don’t remember such a serious attack. In the past there were more limited attacks, but this one affected many, many sites. Its 2016 and I remember thinking years ago in the mid-2000’s about…
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xonsh: A revolutionary Python-Bash hybrid shell
I just found out about xonsh. I will just paste a bit from the project’s homepage: Xonsh is a Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt. The language is a superset of Python 3.4+ with additional shell primitives that you are used to from Bash and IPython. It works on all major systems including Linux,…
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$9 computer
Was just reading an article at heise.de about the release of the $16 Chip Pro from the same company who make the $9 Chip computer.
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Memorize this: . ^ $ * + ? ( ) [ { | [backslash]
.^$*+?()[{|\ This is a really good set of symbols to memorize because if you are writing a Perl-compatible regular expression (PCRE) then these are the symbols which if they occur as literals within expressions (and outside of character classes), they need to be escaped. [Sorry WordPress is messing up the backslash character in the title]…
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Cool historical concept of the {time_interval}: Phoenician
As I was reading one of my computer science textbooks on my laptop something made me think about languages in general and alphabets. The whole idea of an alphabet – symbols to represent phonetic sounds which can be re-used and combined to form words – all began with Phoenician. Phoenician is where it all began.…
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