Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

I was surprised to see that wget chose to use IPv4 over IPv6 when downloading a file. It looks like it is on purpose (I would call it a bad design choice). You can tell wget to prefer IPv6 over IPv4 by putting the following line
prefer-family = IPv6

in either /etc/wgetrc (system wide) or $HOME/.wgetrc (user […]

Since about a week, I started to notice that I had been making a lot of typos in some commands I use frequently. For example, I became unable to type correctly

cd /usr/src/linux

which always resulted in

cd /usr/src:linux

(incidentally, when typing the above strings, I had to fix the first one and the second one came naturally buggy)
On […]

Tonight, I was willing to create a while construct in Factor taking two items on the stack:

a quotation to execute when the test is true
a test quotation

For example, I wanted to be able to find the smallest power of two greater than or equal to an arbitrary number (here 34098) by doing:

1 [ 2 * […]

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