It felt unusual at first that they attached semantics to (white spaces and tabs as) non-printable characters. On the other hand other n.p.- characters like line feeds always had a meaning (I.e. within multi line strings).

So why not, when it helps to reduce the amount of (printable) characters to describe your thing and increase clarity? 🤔

It wasn’t meant to deliver a solution. It’s an opinion (as in a piece of my point of view).

It’s just not the right way to go in my opinion. (And yes I understand the reasons why people choose what they choose. )

You seem ambivalent about the topic. I understand your arguments, but I don’t agree with your solution. That doesn’t need to bother you. We probably have very different requirements for transportation.

I live in an area where I don’t need a car to get where I want to - bike, bus and train are sufficient. And I don’t normally need to transport so much that I need a car. And if I need a car I get a rental for a short time.

Sometimes I shake my head a little in disbelief because I find the trend towards more individual transportation within large cars concerning. But then again my lifestyle isn’t for everyone and who am I to judge? (But I’m entitled to my own opinion. ;)

Just get an even bigger car, it will keep you safe from those.

Why do they wait in line for one guy? It’s just a select and there should be multiple employees at the counter, or not?

Arguably a big part of piracy is about digital distribution services (DDS). Just not the ones the digital rights owner had in mind.

“You are the number 1111 (base 255) for me.” isn’t even a backhanded compliment any more, or is it?

I mean, that puts the person in question behind 16.843.008 more favourable people (unless I’ve miscalculated).

You mean used their digits? There are only 8 fingers. But then there is also the octal system. And together with a friend you could count in hexadecimal… :)

I just realised that digits translates to Finger in german. And finger also translates to Finger. But you have 10 of the former and 8 of the latter. Funny.

I looked up miter joint and butt joint and I’m beginning to understand what you wanted to say.

Yes, maybe.

It doesn’t hurt to know the basic commands to insert, copy, paste with vim. But with bim, handling the tool always consumed a too big percentage of my attention in respect to doing the task at hand. I still use it for small file changes.

Oracle happened to OpenOffice.

Formally, this is an example of positive punishment where the addition of a stimulus decreases the likelihood of the target behavior occuring again.

Yes, that’s what i meant. Thanks.

negative reenforcement learning (example)

There are oem drives out there which don’t have the 5year warranty. I would check the drives serial numbers at the seagate homepage.

The fresh ones have green spikes. I know that kind of tree.

Edit: Cute. :)

It’s just the trailer, but it’s not the trailer I’m waiting for.

It’s called eau de fox.

Majestic indeed. :)

OK. I can do that.

Ah. It makes sense now. Thanks.

Why update before select? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? (I’m clueless. )