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En dashes!


His favorite bar, Siberia, is also back, now at the south end of the Columbus Circle subway station. Same owner, Tracy, and same no-frills atmosphere.


The Earth is being pulled away from that water, just as the water on the right is being pulled away from the Earth.


But the water on the left is being pulled by everything to the right of it, moon, earth, other water. Why is it left behind? Every single thing is being attracted by the same centre of gravity on the right of the earth


It's further away so it's pulled less, so it shifts less.


I think you mean "eminent domain" – the emoluments clause prohibits government officials from accepting gifts, payments, or titles from foreign states.


Ah you're correct. Got the legal e terms swapped in my head.


He fixed underlines on Medium 11 years ago – and someone un-fixed them since then?


Mockingbird, by Walter Tevis (who wrote The Hustler and The Color of Money, and Queen's Gambit, and The Man Who Fell To Earth – quite an oeuvre!) has long been one of my favorite books and it's been eerie to see how right he was about how eager mankind is to hand over all intellectual labor to the robots.

(The last level 9 robot that hasn't killed itself is now the Dean of NYU, and in the 25th century it hires the first man who has learned to read in 400 years – to translate the title cards in silent films. Hilarity ensues. Well, no, but there is kind of a happy ending.)


    ENV UV_SYSTEM_PYTHON=1


I assumed, especially with the VS Code recommendation, that this would automatically use devcontainers...


I remember π and e and type

  perl -pi -e '...' file.txt


And if you are using a newer Perl they sometimes add features that aren't enabled by default unless you opt-in with a 'use v5.38' style declaration.

If you want those features on in your one-liner you can use -E instead of -e

    perl -pi -E '...' file.txt
(I used to need this long ago when I wanted to use the then-new "say" in my one-liners)


I use an old iPod Touch to read in bed, it doesn't hurt at all! Shame they stopped selling them, and it has stopped getting OS updates.


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