A command is something I shout to an underling or my shell prompt. My shell interpreter takes my command, parses it and calls the necessary tool, be it a builtin or an executable.

I tell Tom to fetch the morning paper from the yard. Is Tom a command? No, Tom is my son.

I disabled quiet mode and I don't know what is revealed.

It seems like this is a description: https://interconnected.org/home/2024/09/05/cursor-party

I guess it's showing user's location, maybe simulating their cursor in some way, but I don't know for sure how he's doing this.

I have realized the same.

Only it is different 100 photos every year.

I had a linguist attend a CS class and he didn't know how to copy and paste.

Will you update the list for us, a month from now?

i doubt uv and ruff are going anywhere that quickly at least

UTFv6

I remember a moment in an early job interview. My resumé was all proper for this entry level junior position and everything was checking out. We turned to smalltalk to round up the interview.

"What sort of music do you like?"

(What sorta ques... you don't just throw this in without a warning. ahh I'm blanking out. What was it that I listened to last night??)

"Uhhh Mike Oldfield is one..."

"Ohh... (pause) ewww. But we won't let this hinder your application heh heh"

"hee..."

I got the position and rose to senior rather quickly. I didn't have any interactions with this guy since after this one interview. Maybe for the best. He didn't mean bad, he was just a bit out of his element 2nd-seat interviewing for devs.

GP expressly said the wife does not code: she uses claude.

What was the original publication date for this strip #568?

2009-04-13 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/568:_Well_2

Also contrast with the busy beaver problem and how much can be done with a small handful of instructions.