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Every iPhone & Apple Watch in the hospital was disabled by an MRI machine, but Android phones & traditional PCs were unaffected. The cause: helium. Yes, a slightly helium-rich atmosphere. reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments

Let's go live to Wasabi's datacenter where underpaid robots are hard at work righting the tipped-over servers: youtu.be/HdtmmHEs9jg

Help me; I'm looking at m4 for static webpage generation.
dnl
define(`hope',`abandoned')dnl
dnl

"Just run the power lines up from the underground junction straight up a conduit. It'll be fine."

gender hot take 

Hot take: masculinity can be positive and good and maleness is not inherently toxic

The phone face notch is a crap idea, Google was wrong to copy it from Apple, & CSS-inspired DOM transformations are hard: theverge.com/2018/10/29/180391

I finally figured out what the stuttering loading bar on Web Mastodon reminds me of...!

It's , so I'm just going to give up & be a cat today.

*starts walking toward the door, collapses sound asleep curled in the first sunbeam*

pypi complexity-0.9.1 

$ python3.6 setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 19, in <module>
history = f.read()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 2378: ordinal not in range(128)

... Seriously??

Just because your "HISTORY.rst" file has Unicode line-art, & you want to clip a line from it during setup?

Tired: Relying exclusively on WiFi to conduct business connections across an entire facility.
Wired: CAT-5e, CAT-6, CAT-7, COAX, FIBER...

PyPI, could you *please* just show me the damned SHA256 hash, & *not* require me to enable JavaScript just to use an opaque "Copy to clipboard" parlor trick!?

so much for lightweight markup 

This is for a static website, BTW.

I'm done with fast-changing dynamic frameworks & CMS all-in-ones with even half the dependencies of "Hello World" in Ruby on Rails.

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so much for lightweight markup 

Rendering the same 6-paragraph, 65-line source markup file (reStructuredText or pandoc's Markdown flavor) into a 154-line HTML 5 target file:

py36-rst2html5: 1.05 seconds

py36-docutils: 0.65 seconds

hs-pandoc: 2.50 seconds

Rendering the same source file content through Jamal, "Just Another Macro Language," a perl script from 1997 & last updated 2010:

jamal: 0.05 seconds

These look tiny now, but what happens when I go over 100 pages then tweak the template?

docutils documentation [ - ] 

I can't use either docutils or rst2html5 to generate a complete HTML page with my template, because there's no way I can find to specify the page title in the page head from within the .rst source file, with or without a custom template.

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ed(1) tricks & tips 

Sometimes when you do a substitution, you don't want the first match in the line but a subsequent one. With ed(1), you can specify which you want:

$ ed
a
#!/bin/sh
echo xxxxx echo zzzzz
.
s/x/X/4p
echo xxxXx echo zzzzz
s/echo/yyyyy/2p
echo xxxXx yyyyy zzzzz

This also works with sed(1)

$ echo xxxxx | sed s/x/X/3
xxXxx

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