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    Using sed 11q can be an early sign of dementia (discuss.tchncs.de)
    submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    Link to research paper on Pubmed

    There is a huge debate on whether to use head or sed 11q command on your shell scripts, it turns out using the latter can be a sign of dimentia as far as I understand from reading the above research paper. Its in a very reputed journal so it must be true

    I can link to a Research paper with that in the title therefore I am right

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    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 18 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    The two commands are not equivalent. sed 11q prints 11 lines whereas head's default is 10.

    Personally I would prefer head -11 in this situation as it more clearly indicates, for the sake of the meme, that something is being removed from the head.

    There's also that head seems to be ever-so-slightly quicker, perhaps proving what we already knew about thinking being quicker than speech.

    TL;DR That's what she sed?

    [–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

    something is being removed from the head

    Around here we call that a haircut. Or brain surgery if its done by a doctor.

    [–] mlg@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

    I can link to a Research paper with that in the title therefore I am right

    [–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

    Dementia

    Great, a Debian distro targeted at gamers. Just what we needed. πŸ™„

    [–] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

    you can skip both if you just tac | tail | tac

    [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

    You can skip everything if you

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