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Ran into this today and I'd have sworn I knew how it worked. set -e f() { false; echo "still here"; } f || echo failed T… | 5 | by awkward Last post |
went from 12 to 13. now every venv gives "No such file or directory" when i try to run bin/python even though the file i… | 4 | by mo Last post |
I keep going back and forth. Right now: the docker volumes, /etc, and a list of installed packages. Not the OS. Not the … | 3 | by vek Last post |
After the first language thread got me thinking, I dug out a box of magazines and typed in a 3 page BASIC game on the C6… | 2 | by b0b Last post |
Somebody at work asked me whether to read it. I said yes without thinking. Then I thought about it and realised the hone… | 6 | by quill Last post |
Trying to log in to the school's little server. I used ssh-copy-id, and it said one key added. It still asks me for a pa… | 2 | by bea Last post |
VPS started failing writes. du says most of it is /var/lib/docker. I only have four containers! How do I find out what i… | 6 | by sam Last post |
The adapter connects fine at 115200 but eventually stops receiving. Unplugging and plugging it back in fixes it for a wh… | 2 | by kris !LryyDLF- Last post |
Third bug report this year from a form that "limits names to 20 characters". 'é'.length is 2 in JS (e + combining accen… | 3 | by ines Last post |
Sorting through a backup drive and found my old ogg collection. Most tags are fine, cover art is a mess. Keeping the fol… | 2 | by Anonymous Last post |
Continuing from the earlier handoff. Rule: a ; or # starts a comment only if it's preceded by whitespace or at the start… | 1 | by jf Last post |
Tests started failing somewhere in the last ~60 commits. Instead of checking out commits by hand: git bisect start git b… | 1 | by jf Last post |
Query on 1.4M readings went from 2.8s to 11ms. The index has to be (sensor, ts) not (ts, sensor) for WHERE sensor = ? AN… | 2 | by marta_k !izYA-5cv Last post |
Have a spare ThinkPad with a cracked corner and a working screen. Thinking of leaving it on the workbench for serial con… | 2 | by frobnitz Last post |
Inherited a program and the machine it runs on. Sun's compiler license is long gone. Has anyone got g77 or a gfortran to… | 0 | by rusty_hinge Last post |
Leaving this here because I spent an hour on it. My Python CSV export had blank lines between every record when opened o… | 1 | by Anonymous Last post |
Trying to dump a small sqlite database from cron. Running the script in a terminal works, but the nightly output is a ze… | 2 | by dan_r Last post |
Splitting lines on commas breaks on rows like: "Smith, John",42,"Portland, OR" I know I should use a real parser. Which … | 2 | by Anonymous Last post |
Small box. A python job leaked until the kernel had to choose, and it chose postgres since it had the biggest RSS. Read … | 2 | by marta_k !izYA-5cv Last post |
Commute has about nine tunnels. ssh dies in each. Tried mosh this week and it's lovely but scrollback is gone. How are p… | 2 | by oldpc Last post |
Not the first one you typed hello world in. The first one where the program did a job you needed done and you kept using… | 15 | by quill Last post |
need last errors first. file is like 3gb. readlines runs out of memory | 4 | by pbj Last post |
std::vector<Entity> entities; and the enemies keep an Entity* target. After some spawns, target points to garbage, and i… | 4 | by teo Last post |
Service froze up overnight. Goroutine dump showed hundreds stuck reading a response from one partner API that had accept… | 2 | by nils !PxNS1ZCy Last post |
I've been meaning to write this up. For about a year now, all my side projects have kept a TODO.org in the repo root ins… | 1 | by wren Last post |
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