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Monday be like ...

well that escalated quickly tapas.io/episode/2080763

The Sun from the sky is talking to the guy inside his comfy home from the house Window.

Sun: come outside
Guy: no
Sun: I'll give you vitamin D
Guy: eh
Sun: and serotonin
Guy: ok fine (guy goes outside)
Sun with smug face: haha enjoy skin cancer bitch
Guy is shocked and angry: you fucker

Comic credit: MRLOVENSTEIN.COM

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Edited 7d ago

Microsoft released copilot in Excel, and it is officially caught up with Google on the AI race.

Fantastic to watch.

Column A in the Excel sheet read as (staring with row 1):
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP

Column B in the Excel sheet read as (staring with row 1 and created using AutoFill drag feature):
January
Febuary
Maruary
Apruary
Mayuary
Junuary
Juluary
Auguary
Sepuary

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#Linux users investigate a new Linux distro and desktop

Do you know how to use Regex? 😭 Also see our: Regular expressions in grep ( regex ) with examples www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grep-reg

Edited 8d ago

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This kingdom is doomed for sure ;) Or it will furnish for sure. IDK. You tell me.

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The twelve stages of IT folk's burnout. Stay safe. Get help. Need help figuring out where to start? Ask your GP.

The twelve stages of IT folk's burnout:

Stage 0: You strongly desire to prove your IT/coding skills.
Step 1: But you are starting to feel stressed with uncertainty in the IT sector.
Step 2: Now you are pretending everything is fine and dandy.
Step 3: You start losing confidence and need help to focus on simple tasks.
Step 4: You are feeling frustrated with work.
Step 5: You are no longer finding joy in your work.
Step 6: You feel like your work needs more purpose.
Step 7: Your work quality suffers & creative side is now in /dev/null.
Step 8: You feel entirely disconnected from social and work life.
Step 9: You feel empty and numb inside. The risk of substance abuse is now real.
Step 10: You feel hopeless and feel helpless. You are depressed.
Step 11: You are mentally and physically collapsed, entirely burned out.

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Good god. 😅 😂

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Suddenly my back hurts www.instagram.com/p/Ck9kV_5OaM

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which one are you?

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it is all over for me now

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Do you want to remove all but one specific file when using Bash under #Linux, #macOS/*BS or Unix? For example, delete all except demo.txt:

rm -v !(demo.txt)

Please note that wildcard is supported too. See www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-ba for more info.

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me_irl

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There was a time when compilers didn't collect data from devs and end users. Google's Go lang may add telemetry that's on by default. We already know many IDEs come with telemetry. What next? Go adding telemetry to binaries built with it? www.theregister.com/2023/02/10 What do you think?

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saw this one on Reddit. i am gonna try this next time they ask. lol

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Google CEO Says Its ChatGPT Rival Coming Soon as a ‘Companion’ to Search www.bloomberg.com/news/article

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Is the script running as root under #Linux or #Unix? Here is how to check:

[ "$(id -u)" != "0" ] && { echo 'must run as root'; exit 1; }

For EUID method and examples see www.cyberciti.biz/tips/shell-r for more info.

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A 100% free and interactive Python course for coding beginners

futurecoder.io/