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2021-10-18

• 09:12 UTC (new) (history) 2021-10-16 The funniest bug I've seen in a pretty long time . . . . mbork – I might be in the minority, but I actually do like debugging. It’s often like that sort of puzzle game (or an escape room;-)) where you need to find some hidden clues. And often at first you know nothing or very little, but then you gradually pinpoint the problem and finally find it. And sometimes I am really amazed at what craziness lies hidden in the code. Today, I want to share a recent story which I find almost unbelievably hilarious.

2021-10-11

• 16:35 UTC (new) (history) 2021-10-11 Highlighting word differences when diffing . . . . mbork – I have a short tip for today. Sometimes it is useful to diff two files (in terminal), highlighting the differences on the level of words. Apparently, GNU diff cannot do that – but Git can. Did you know that you can say git diff –word-diff=color <file1> <file2> even outside any Git repo?

2021-09-27

• 20:18 UTC (new) (history) 2021-09-27 Ellipses in math - ldots versus cdots . . . . mbork – It’s been a while since a TeX-related post here, but I still use TeX and friends once in a while, and this time I’d like to share something apparently not everyone knows about. LaTeX has a \dots macro, setting the ellipsis (three consecutive dots) which is just an alias for \ldots.

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