...t makes for a lot of extra typing as well as processing time when you make more than one target at a time. The solution provided by 0xf can test for an executable without making a target. That saves a lot of typing and execution time when there are multiple targets that can be built either separate...

... distribution Typically, the delay in a network is not uniform. It is more common to use a something like a normal distribution to describe the variation in delay. The netem discipline can take a table to specify a non-uniform distribution. # tc qdisc change dev eth0 root netem delay 100ms 20m...

...::mutate(). Sorry, just trying to be helpful - I won't pollute the site anymore and abstain from future postings. – sbha Mar 27 '19 at 22:44 ...

...ng, merging and generally manipulating the data, factors are a total pain. More recently, as in the past few years a lot of the functions have improved to handle the factors better. For instance, rbind plays nicely with them. I still find it a total nuisance to have left over empty levels after a su...

...ion was called Doing all of these steps takes time, usually a little bit more than it takes to iterate through a loop. However, the real problem is in step #1. When many programs start, they allocate a single chunk of memory for their stack, and when they run out of that memory (often, but not a...

...you go about formatting a long line such as this? I'd like to get it to no more than 80 characters wide: 5 Answers ...

... Also, I would guess scp is more likely to be available on a Unix-like system, so you prevent an annoying "command not found" now and then. – Rafa May 6 '14 at 21:58 ...

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... One more note for Mac OS X users: for some reason, the -i flag requires an argument to be passed, even if it's just an empty string, like sed -i '' '/pattern/d' ./infile. – geerlingguy Oct 2...

I'm selectively committing parts of a large file and I'd like to see more context around each hunk. Is this possible? 2 Ans...