@firefly @inthehands Fortunately they are completely unable to do anything in a stealthy way ...

@brouhaha @gsuberland well, yes for anything other than 1-liners I too prefer python. But awk somehow is very amenable to doing tiny things like this:

awk '{count[$0]++} END{for(x in count) { printf("%-10d %s\n",count[x],x) } } ' | sort -n

@gsuberland one-liners like that are pretty excellent. I tend use awk for stuff like that sh command at the end, I think it doesn't require quite so many parens and you also probably don't need the cut because you can just use $11 in awk. Plus you can do summary statistics and print out in END{ }.

@fasterthanlime Apple has also patented multithreading technology that updates lists just as you’re about to click/tap on them so you select the wrong item.

@wurzelmann @canyakker we only occasionally have the red breasted nuthatch, mostly lots of the regular nuthatches. More often than not they’re upside down. Bold and feisty, they along with the chickadees will be out on the deck with me while I’m filling the feeders.

@kristiedegaris Your daughter is talented, it's a good photograph. And your forearms tell their own story, that this is a person who does in fact work with stone.