Tim Chase

@gumnos

Christian geek, husband, father; punster; don't take too seriously; whacko behind [GPG: A8AC DE26 CB08 38D4 78E2 F9D3 AEA6 D898 A54C 94FF]

Dallas Metroplex, TX, USA
Joined February 2009
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    8 Feb 2021

    Open to questions about vi/vim/ed/ex, regex, git, Python & SQL, and can try to help with Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD-related CLI (sed/awk/sh/grep). Can also ramble fairly coherently about HTTP, HTML/CSS, tmux/screen, and gopher.

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  2. 7 hours ago

    Shopping for packs of birthday cards on Amazon, there's an option for New vs. Used. Used. Used birthday cards. "Dear S̶t̶e̶v̶e̶ Kelly, I hope you have a happy a̶n̶n̶i̶v̶e̶r̶s̶a̶r̶y̶ birthday! Love, K̶a̶t̶e̶ Tim"

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  3. 10 hours ago

    [dear daughter running around the living-room pretending to be a unicorn] "Dad, I'm Effie the Unicorn. But you can call me Eff Unicorn." Me: [pause] Let's keep that name for just in the house… 😬

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  4. Retweeted
    11 Jun 2021

    "quick! function's coming home, clean up the stack!!!"

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  5. Retweeted
    22 hours ago

    Progressive Enhancement advocates do not advocate against using JS. We advocate *for not relying on it* for things that can be done accessibly just fine w/o it. Why? Because you can't guarantee that JS will always run. Content should be accessible w/o it whenever possible.

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    May 18

    Oh this is too good. ALT: a textbook with the text “introduction to that thing: but only@for people who already know it”

    Basically every math textbook
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  7. May 18

    Me: You said we should do X, but the client data looks like we should do Y… Account Mgr: no, do X as we discussed Me: You certain? AM: Yep. Me: Positive? [sends screencap of relevant data] AM: Oh, yeah. That rings a bell. Do Y instead. 🤦

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  8. Retweeted
    May 17

    I don't know who needs to hear this but.... 🎶 Every time a consumers needs are unmet, A new spreadsheet gets it wings 🎶

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  9. May 18

    stumbled on a previously-unencountered corner of wc(1) today: -L returns the length of the longest line seen in its input. A lot easier/faster to use $ … | wc -L than my previous go-to using awk: $ … | awk 'length>m{m=length}END{print length}'

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  10. May 17

    [Me typing in MS Teams chat at ] "…so we can [pop-up notification that the person with whom I'm chatting has replied, as if I can't see their reply RIGHT THERE; the notification pop-up blocks where I'm typing so now I can't see what I'm typing]

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    May 17

    Web form: Please enter your email address. Me, typing: r Web form: ERROR ERROR THAT IS NOT A VALID EMAIL ADDRESS WHAT ARE YOU DOING

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    May 16

    I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you do, read it out loud.

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    May 16

    Client: we don't have time to do a quantitative risk assessment. What can you do for us? Me: Let me introduce you to our new qualitative risk assessment engine...

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  14. May 16

    Sometimes vim just tickles me with a feature. Today: had some poorly-formatted Go code pasted in a document and happened to be on the opening brace =% BAM! Reformatted the pasted block perfectly. Two keystrokes vs dozens to do manually.

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  15. May 15

    In reference to this Pearls Before Swine comic

    The ball is in your court.
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  16. May 15

    $ awk 'BEGIN{srand();srand();i=0}!length{++i;next}{a[i,++a[i,0]]=$0}END{for(k=0;k<=i;k++)printf("%s ",a[k, int(rand()*a[k,0])+1]); print "!"}' pearls.txt Members of a shadow US Government want nothing more than to destroy all the world's squirrels and then we're all gonna die !

    Executing the "awk" command against a text-file called "pearls.txt" where each of the panels' text is listed, separated by a blank line, allowing choices from the following: Members of a shadow US Government Technology companies Russian oligarchs Space aliens living in Roswell are collecting data on now control want nothing more than to destroy are orchestrating a coup to try and topple our way of life tomato soup cans all the world's squirrels your mama and that's just the beginning and it starts at noon tomorrow and then we're all gonna die and we'll all be forced to read more Pearls Before Swine comics
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  17. May 14

    Have you ever asked sed(1) for a statement on where cats belong? $ echo cat | sed statement I'm pretty sure that sed prefers dogs. 😉

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  18. May 12

    Of course this means dealing with all of the lovely edge-cases involved in taking a linear process and exploding it out across multiple cores. But preliminary results look promising and accurate. 😎

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  19. May 12

    aww, yis. That 3-day process I got down to ~1 day? Found some embarrassingly parallelizable sections and it looks like I might be able to cut processing time even further. A day of coding later and tests are now (re)running. 🤞

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  20. May 12

    blaaaaaarrgh. Just blew waaaay too much time tracking down why this code didn't work as expected: val =+ 2 Of course, that should be val += 2 and suddenly things started working. But seriously…sigh.

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  21. Retweeted
    Apr 29

    TIL sqlite comes bundled with a diff tool.

    Replying to @chriseberly @benbjohnson
    SQLite actually ships with one of those!
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