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poetaster··on Qalculate – A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator
I'll +1 speedcrunch It's also been built for off-broadway mobile OS Sailfish.
poetaster··on The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition
I wanted to ask why not the more simple form:

echo '"foo","bar,baz","boo"' | awk -F"\",\"" '{print $1}' "foo

echo '"foo","bar,baz","boo"' | awk -F"\",\"" '{print $2}' bar,baz

echo '"foo","bar,baz","boo"' | awk -F"\",\"" '{print $3}' boo"

Realizing that I have to strip the quotes that remain.

Edit. formatting.

EDit, again, from your link, the following is more terse and too my taste (still needs strips):

awk -v FPAT='("[^"]*")+'

poetaster··on The EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries
The wp article does mention gigaset and https://www.shiftphones.com/ but not Fairphone nor https://www.carbonmobile.com/ who as with shift and gigaset are building manufacturing in Germany (mostly north east). Shift has a plant in China and just does finishing in Germany. But that's a given, I believe. Can't source all things in one country. Or?
poetaster··on The EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries
It's also perhaps of interest that one of the few alternative OS efforts is still being led by ex-nokia folk out of Tampere, Finland. Jolla.

Much of the Plasma development for mobile is spear headed by devs in Germany (KDE folk).

Point being, the heritage of Nokia is not quite dead yet.

poetaster··on The EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries
Gigaset is a German company who manufactures and assembles in Germany. https://www.gigaset.com/hq_en/smartphones/ A German remarkting firm Volla sells them with their own Android. The swiss company Rephone also rebrands with upgrads the GS5 (6GB RAM instead of 4).

All the recent Gigaset phones have replaceable Batteries. I use a GS5 and a Rephone with SailfishOs.

poetaster··on Ask HN: If the Internet were redesigned today, what changes would you make?
The Student's Union. In Canada, all the Universities and many Technical schools have a license. It's a CRTC regulated thing. I don't remember the legal framework in detail, but public broadcasting is deemed a necessity https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/community-...
poetaster··on Ask HN: If the Internet were redesigned today, what changes would you make?
In the main, decentralized community (small player?) centered networking. Mesh ++. I admit it's some time since I thought about it but OLPC is what came to mind.
poetaster··on Ask HN: If the Internet were redesigned today, what changes would you make?
OLpC kind of dream?
poetaster··on Ask HN: If the Internet were redesigned today, what changes would you make?
I was doing public, student radio in the 1980s. Cost nothing but time and effort to do the work. We had a huge audience without advertising or gov't interference. The yearly fund raiser and student union sufficed. Community.
poetaster··on Ask HN: If the Internet were redesigned today, what changes would you make?
Sadly, the price on the cable network i'm on with ipv6 is performance, AND recently, no ipv4. Kid you not. I did tunnel myself for a while, but gave up. Static ipv4 to the outside. dual stack internal for testing network stuff. How bizzare is that. I live in germany.
poetaster··on Ask HN: If the Internet were redesigned today, what changes would you make?
I just wish slaac was slaac.
poetaster··on Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU performance boost
I agree but would distinguish the mac from the phone? Bluetooth file transfers are a wall problem with ios. Assume you mean macosx?
poetaster··on Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU performance boost
Ditto. I'm the leper who prefers to not use whatsapp and only get away with it since my partner takes up the slack, so to speak.. Last weekend she and i where bemused by the inability of our 100% APPLE hosts to: 1. Use airprint (worked from my linux phone!!!) 2. Share a file with linux or android (mp3 for a ringtone) 3. Install a ringtone. Breathtaking. I still have my classic. And si. I have more proprietary apple software on diskettes than most geeks I know. But apple tanked long ago. And hardware is cheap. And foss is fun.
poetaster··on How will MIDI 2.0 change music? (2020)
I do kinda get a kick out of connecting my keep (homebrew analog micro modular) to a volca modular slave and midi out to a... you get the picture.
poetaster··on Fundamentals of Piano Practice
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. Aspiring to jazz for over 20 years. Satie is easier, if no less interesting.
poetaster··on The metaverse is bullshit
I write poems. I write music. I write code. I build books. I play songs. I compiled this client.
poetaster··on The metaverse is bullshit
I don't get the fuss. I've been living in the metaverse since Kurt Schwitters. DaDa!
poetaster··on The metaverse is bullshit
I had read and loved The Expanse. I also loved it on tv. Lord of the Ring. Hmmm.
poetaster··on Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation (2020)
Import suds, ditto.
poetaster··on Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation (2020)
I really like rest. But, the 3 day php hack I built 10 years ago still brings in the cash. I must admit, it's not a service called by arbitrary clients. But the WSDL was text book and I have only one document that I generally need to refer to.
poetaster··on Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy
Yeah. And some of us fetch HN via rest apis in json. Tracking? Ah, no. Nice hanging out with you guys 'here' :-)
poetaster··on Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy
System administrative deus ex machina, please. Oh, [BOFH] to you.
poetaster··on The Air Force has a plan to make jet fuel out of air
Thank you for your labours, above and below the surface.
poetaster··on Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2021 edition
Ah, funny. The OS X launch drove me to linux/bsd. The classic I still boot once a year. Sometimes I boot to netbsd. And I was a mac user who would complain about the idiocy of windows in the 90s. Typing this on linux mobile.
poetaster··on Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2021 edition
No video tearing in years. Sure, I can haul an old laptop out of the basement. QT 5.6 is holding me back a bit. That is about money though and not linux. It is easier to absorb license fees in commercial software, sure. Need to read what the KDE people are doing.
poetaster··on Tesla is outrunning the supply chain crunch
Even in old prussiab Brandenburg I see a lot of Teslas. Berlins waste fat. But we're about to open a factory.
poetaster··on [Resolved] GitHub is returning 500 for all requests
Lots a free tools have all I need. Webhooks included. Obs away.
poetaster··on [Resolved] GitHub is returning 500 for all requests
I love github. But I host my own grogs. Both is good. Sometimes I use fossil.
poetaster··on The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Returning from Space
And leave them up there.
poetaster··on Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online
China consumes over 4 billion tonnes of coal a year. Germany less than 300,000 million. Now, the best course of action is to get VW out of the chinese market to reduce emissions there! Win, win!!!
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