ewenak

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It's fascinating that while languages vary wildly by speaking speed, information transfer is fairly similar. in c/dataisbeautiful
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

As a french, I'm very surprised by this, as when I see a text in French side-by-side with its English translation, the English version is usually shorter. It may be a difference between speech and text, but it's still surprising.

I really thought the information density of French was pretty low, compared to English or Breton, for example.

idk i use tty in c/linuxmemes
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Idk I set up the initial state of the universe so that the disk contains the right data at the right moment

I wrote an interactive TUI app that gives a brief tour of the `GNU awk` command for beginners in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, really, I only know awk '{ print $SOME_COLUMN_NUMBER }', nothing else.