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> Writing in a plaintext editor before copying into HN Yes, I think it is a thing where people type into Microsoft Word (or similar). Given how moving around the web can cause text in fields to be …

smart/soft quotes are usually: ‘|’|“|” but there are also other quoting glyphs in ASCII but especially UTF-8

Yes, I know who Sun Ra is. Because I didn't see ^Ra$ in my list of common nouns then it means that there hasn't been a comment just about Ra. But now there has: Ra. Ra. Ra. 4 times total now…

the weirdest DSL I've seen

If you want to test ftfy online it's available here: https://ftfy.vercel.app/

Thanks for your feedback! > search by airport code It actually will do that but the autocomplete is a little buggy so you might need to press space and backspace once or twice lol ah if you mean th…

I have something similar--for deciding whether to try to connect locally or via remote address: Match host 10400 exec "timeout 1 nc -z 192.168.1.101 22 2>/dev/null" …

rainwater is dirty, even in unpolluted areas https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765 …

Also don't skip out on `os.spawnvpe`. Really simple to use: def cmdi(*cmd, **kwargs): retcode = os.spawnvpe(os.P_WAIT, cmd[0], cmd, os.environ) return subprocess.CompletedPr…

I backed them up https://archive.org/details/emoji-kitchen

I downloaded all 26,500 and uploaded to archive.org https://archive.org/details/emoji-kitchen They add new ones fairly regularly though! https://gist.github.com/c…

Learning some combination of functional programming / DBA skills / thinking in terms of categories has helped me become much more organized. I don't waste time on about detailed organiz…

> A version control system which scales to petabytes or more Git Annex might work here