rand($.) < 1 && ($line = $_) while <>;

Pick a random line from a file without knowing its size beforehand. The algorithm can be easily adjusted to many a thing...

How come Perl is so fun?

Actually, complete history of innovation in pencils in Japan. For some years I wanted to get my hands on one of these, but it was hard to justify it. I have so many pencils left over from school days, my pencil consumption rate, which is probably higher than yours, is low, and I'll probably never finish them all. But maybe there's truly some magic in those Mitsu-Bishis?

A collection of filetypes and airports with identical names.

The Decimal Clock.

Regarding the recent Maven drama.

Крупнейшая фотогалерея городского электротранспорта России и мира. Базы подвижного состава, видеокаталог.

If there is one principle that should be added to the UNIX philosophy, it is:

"Finish your project."

Let me list my finished projects.

• Uh...

I can't even say Mycorrhiza is finished despite it being in maintenance mode!

This article made numbers on the fedded verses. It encourages everybody to ditch GitHub. The message makes sense. I've been reducing my GitHub presence. This article wasn't the trigger for me, but it was for many people. Maybe it will be one for you!

Коллекция ссылок про архивирование веба.

Interspecies Internet is a think-tank to accelerate our understanding of interspecies communication.

Не очень понятно, что они сделали уже, надо разобраться. Тема интересная.

Overfitting is bad. The best example in the article is the school system. Tests were introduced to measure students effectively. They were a good measure for that! Then schools started focusing on tests. You know what happened. Поколение ЕГЭ, cramming, etc.

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Красивый официальный сайт страны! Прикольно, не знал, что так бывает.

Серьезно, не нужен. Я бы предпочел SQL.

z-run -- scripting library lightweight Go-based tool

Still using it. Super wonderful.

A computer manufactured by a craftsman.

Japan operates with an Island metaphysic, where resources are finite in space (Japan is an island nation) but infinite in time (by virtue of natural regeneration). The West operates with a Faustian metaphysic, where resources are infinite in space (by virtue of conquest) and infinite in time. It's interesting to see these metaphysical realities manifest in something as ordinary as tool manufacture.

Our motto, ARMA ACRI FACIENDA VIRO, comes from Book VIII of The Aeneid when Vulcan commands the cyclopes to "Forge arms fit for a hero".

История про то, как Новосибирск обскакал Томск при помощи железной дороги, а потом стал третьим по населению городом в России.