If you work with strings in your Python scripts and you're writing obscure logic to process them, then you need to look into regex in Python. It lets you describe patterns instead of writing ...

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Going without sleep can become dangerous quickly, with symptoms like cognitive impairment and hallucinations appearing after just a few nights. After 24, 36, 48, and 72 hours without sleep, problems ...

The only letter I’ve ever sent to the New York Times was in the 1980s, objecting to the paper’s suddenly pestilent use of “draconian.” During Iran–Contra the complaint must have seemed trivial; the ...