Tag: WTF
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shell scripting: “for i in $( … )” or “… | while read” ?
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-09/msg00291.html The link refers to some code like the one I am working on right now: $ for i in $(seq -w $n); do …; done And the guy replying on that ml thread suggests to better write it this way: $ seq -w $n | while read i; do …; done His reason: to prevent…
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my Sunday evening Berlinale film: “As from afar” – Speer meets Wiesenthal – and guess what: they were friends – strange
https://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20147106 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein – I find the reference to Wittgenstein unnecessary and crappy and disturbing and just diversionary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer – Hitler’s chief architect– to me he is a dubious creature, certainly not a Zaddik, ie. not a righteous person – although he himself keeps telling Wiesenthal (in these fictitious dialogues), that he should not make their relationship public…
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a VirtualBox WinXP VM (on a MacBook Pro) doing a “Microsoft Update” for ever
No idea, why it’s taking that long.