Fear the trees

it's the Happening

In the self-selecting sample I have, the Asians tend to worship at Universities and adopt those politics. (Again, it's a self-selecting sample, I'm a pseudo-academic)

There's probably Asians seeing the Dems and unis defend Affirmative action and are reconsidering their stances, but I don't know any.

My life feels like a fucking XKCD punchline right now...

Which one?

Just in general.

XKCD sucks

humorless

You've managed to become a stick figure?

Your life sounds terrible

your life feels humorless?

xkcd is good when it's not being political.

dafuq is xkcd?

A very popular webcomic.

Your life is not as good as if it was SMBC?

Alot of physics and tech strips.

I accidentally used ; as a formatting symbol in my radio playlist's song metadata.

...

Let the station play for 3 months before my first report

exported the CSV to report music usage to the appropriate organizations

I just had to retag some 500 songs manually.

ouch.

<:timcat:463067464016855040>

Next I have to audit 3 9000 line spreadsheets.

regex?

Usually fixes these things.

regex?

what's that? how do I use it?

regular expressions.

regex woudl ahve absolutely fixed it

It's a feature in text editors (like vim or notepad++)

It's a classic computer "language" that lets you manipulate text strings.

or any scripting languge

Really, any programming language if you want to be broad enough.

oh how many times i've been to this page

https://www.regular-expressions.info

the main page but yeah

I get so used to vim that when I'm on windows I start entering :w. The convenience is becoming the bane of my existence

Random thought: I get nightmares imagining my notepad++ data somehow gets corrupted. I have too many notes and code tweaks in it

used lots in data sanitization before storing, ie your mp3 tags 😄

Windows programs have a much weaker variant called wildcards. (and yes, CS majors, I know it's not complete. It looks similar to most people)