In October 1984 I arrived at Oxford University, trailing a large steamer trunk containing a couple of changes of clothing and about five dozen textbooks. I had a freshly minted bachelor’s degree in ...

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Billy Strings revealed that he wants to set his late mother’s poetry to music for a potential new album during an extensive interview about drug use and addiction on the Dopey podcast. Strings’ mother ...

Have you ever heard of FINDSTR and Select-String? Select-String is a cmdlet that is used to search text & the patterns in input strings & files. It is similar to grep on Linux & FINDSTR on Windows. In ...

Are you ready for Python Pi? The 3.14 beta is out now, and we’ve got the rundown on what’s so great about it, including the new template strings feature, or “f-strings with superpowers.” ...

Python’s new template strings, or t-strings, give you a much more powerful way to format data than the old-fashioned f-strings. The familiar formatted string, or f-string, feature in Python provides a ...

Boolean parameters (like offline) need to be explicitly passed as lowercase strings "true" or "false" for them to work correctly. This seems to be due to how query ...

Bows are one of the most commonly used ranged weapons. It lets players shoot arrows from a distance, preventing them from getting detected and attacked by hostile mobs. Bows can either be obtained by ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. String theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a ...