Trailblazing Braille Taser

My knife is printf, but my scalpel is gdb.

I honestly think autocorrecting your scripts would do more harm than good. ShellCheck tells you about potential issues, but It’s up to you to determine the correct behavior.

For example, how could it know whether cat $foo should be cat "$foo", or whether the script actually relies on word splitting? It’s possible that $foo intentionally contains multiple paths.

Maybe there are autofixable errors I’m not thinking of.

FYI, it’s possible to gradually adopt ShellCheck by setting --severity=error and working your way down to warnings and so on. Alternatively, you can add one-off #shellcheck ignore SC1234 comments before offending lines to silence warnings.

PSA: Run ShellCheck on your shell scripts. It turns up a shocking number of programming errors. https://www.shellcheck.net/

It is pronounced like “curl” though!

We pronounce curl with an initial k sound. It rhymes with words like girl and earl. This is a short WAV file to help you:

https://media.merriam-webster.com/soundc11/c/curl0001.wav

https://curl.se/docs/faq.html#What_is_cURL

I wrote my comment not to antagonize you but to point out that you’re asking the wrong questions. I failed to articulate that, and I’m sorry for being harsh.

Your prior comment indicated that you have used hash tables in Java, which were very fast. You said that your program accessed the hash tables, but did not “search” the table. These operations are the same thing, which led me to believe you’re out of your depth.

This last comment asks me how much this paper’s contribution speeds up an average program. You’re asking the wrong question, and you seem to be implying the work was useless if it doesn’t have an immediate practical impact. This is a theoretical breakthrough far over my head. I scanned the paper, but I’m unsurprised they haven’t quantified the real-world impact yet. It’s entirely possible that despite finding an asymptotic improvement, the constant factors (elided by the big O analysis) are so large as to be impractical… or maybe not! I think we need to stay tuned.

Again, sorry for being blunt. We all have to start somewhere. My advice is to be mindful of where the edge of your expertise lies and try to err on the side of not devaluing others’ work.

Everyone prepare for your minds to be blown:

• Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second (Geoff Langdale, Daniel Lemire)
• https://simdjson.org/

Sorry to be blunt, but you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Thank you for honoring the ancient memes. I pray that Katy, t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m, accepts this offering.

HyperCard was created by Bill Atkinson following an LSD trip.[11]

🤯

If you’re writing a lot of shell scripts and checking them with Shellcheck, and you’re still convinced that it’s totally safe… I tip my hat to you.

Correct! I made a number of other mistakes (edited away now due to shame), but that’s the one I made on purpose.

I imagine this would still lead to a never ending stream of subtle logic errors.

from bossland import billysbool, billysand
from geography import latlong
import telephony

def send_missile_alert(missiles_incoming: billysbool, is_drill: billysbool, target: latlong):
  if billysand(missiles_incoming, not is_drill):
    for phone in telephony.get_all_residents(target):
      phone.send_alert("Missiles are inbound to your location")

Can you spot the bug?

Once upon a time, my landlord’s management company tried to shake me down for an additional day of rent. I pointed out that my rental agreement stated I would pay exactly $x every month, so they can pound sand. They, too, decided to “let it slide.” How magnanimous.

(Edit: I just remembered, first they tried to argue the contract shouldn’t have been written that way so I still had to pay. Wtf.)

I swear they must have created a new spreadsheet with an off-by-one error somewhere and mailed out hundreds of bills instead of double checking.

Obligatory scene from Hot Fuzz

Oh, in that case all OP needs is cat.

You can’t just blame 18-26 year-olds. This was a failure across all age groups. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/interactive-how-key-groups-of-americans-voted-in-2024-according-to-ap-votecast

Brave and Opera are both forks of Chromium that incorporate upstream changes. Firefox is an entire browser.

Ever wonder why you’re getting ads for melatonin?

I’m sympathetic if you’re living off the grid and don’t use public infrastructure. But the “sovereign citizens” that we usually hear about have already implicitly accepted the social contract and are now trying to weasel out of the consequences. The license plates that say “private; no license required” are just utter balogna.

That said, I’m completely in support of nonviolent resistance against unjust laws. But most sovereign citizens, in my estimation, are not protesting in support of any higher cause.

Nor I, as a sovereign citizen in the United States.