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>run commands In case you didn't want to click the link.

by 7ewis 7y ago

nkkollaw 7y ago
Saved my life.
- HALtheWise 7y ago
  I know that it's a figure of speech, but I'm amused by trying to imagine circumstances where needing to click a HN link could be a life threatening situation.
  - nkkollaw 7y ago
    Well, maybe "saved me a click", then. :-)
    - johnisgood 7y ago
      Hovering over the link would have saved you a click, too. :P
  - knicholes 7y ago
    Have you ever seen the movie "Swordfish"?
  - benj111 7y ago
    Well hypothetically each mouse button has a certain finite number of clicks in it before it breaks. It could be in the future you'd need to click to send some crucial evidence to stop you getting sentenced to death. It could be that this saved click is the difference between the mouse failing or not on that occasion. Of course the parent clicked send on their comment undoing the OPs good work. This is all astoundingly improbable, but people buy lottery tickets each week.
    - joevandyk 7y ago
      That’s why I buy a new mouse after every 10 clicks. It’s pretty rare for them to fail on the 11th click.
      - benj111 7y ago
        Id expect a 'bathtub' failure curve. I'd suggest getting lightly used mice.
        sin7 7y ago
        Light use is prime market for lemons. No one is going to sell a good mouse.
        _jal 7y ago
        HN: come for the obscure unix history, stay for the used-commodity micromarket price analysis!
    - NullPrefix 7y ago
      >Well hypothetically each mouse button has a certain finite number of clicks in it before it breaks. Omron switches (most commonly used) are rated from 1M to 20M clicks. >It could be in the future you'd need to click to send some crucial evidence to stop you getting sentenced to death. It could be that this saved click is the difference between the mouse failing or not on that occasion. Double click is the most common failure mode. When clicking, the switch hesitates back and forth resulting in two mouse click events generated. This could turn "drag and drop" into "launch program". Will leave the rest for your imagination.
      - alluro2 7y ago
        "And thus The Last War begun and ended, in a fiery blaze of thermonuclear detonations, initiated by a faulty $10 mouse, whose left switch has far surpassed its expected rating, before failing at a critical probability junction, along with whole of humanity."
eesmith 7y ago
Or read/decode the link URL, ending "wiki/Run_commands".
agumonkey 7y ago
reminiscent of runcom (Louis Pouzin alpha shell)

>run commands In case you didn't want to click the link.

by 7ewis 7y ago

>run commands In case you didn't want to click the link.

nkkollaw 7y ago

Saved my life.

HALtheWise 7y ago
I know that it's a figure of speech, but I'm amused by trying to imagine circumstances where needing to click a HN link could be a life threatening situation.
- nkkollaw 7y ago
  Well, maybe "saved me a click", then. :-)
  - johnisgood 7y ago
    Hovering over the link would have saved you a click, too. :P
- knicholes 7y ago
  Have you ever seen the movie "Swordfish"?
- benj111 7y ago
  Well hypothetically each mouse button has a certain finite number of clicks in it before it breaks. It could be in the future you'd need to click to send some crucial evidence to stop you getting sentenced to death. It could be that this saved click is the difference between the mouse failing or not on that occasion. Of course the parent clicked send on their comment undoing the OPs good work. This is all astoundingly improbable, but people buy lottery tickets each week.
  - joevandyk 7y ago
    That’s why I buy a new mouse after every 10 clicks. It’s pretty rare for them to fail on the 11th click.
    - benj111 7y ago
      Id expect a 'bathtub' failure curve. I'd suggest getting lightly used mice.
      - sin7 7y ago
        Light use is prime market for lemons. No one is going to sell a good mouse.
        _jal 7y ago
        HN: come for the obscure unix history, stay for the used-commodity micromarket price analysis!
  - NullPrefix 7y ago
    >Well hypothetically each mouse button has a certain finite number of clicks in it before it breaks. Omron switches (most commonly used) are rated from 1M to 20M clicks. >It could be in the future you'd need to click to send some crucial evidence to stop you getting sentenced to death. It could be that this saved click is the difference between the mouse failing or not on that occasion. Double click is the most common failure mode. When clicking, the switch hesitates back and forth resulting in two mouse click events generated. This could turn "drag and drop" into "launch program". Will leave the rest for your imagination.
    - alluro2 7y ago
      "And thus The Last War begun and ended, in a fiery blaze of thermonuclear detonations, initiated by a faulty $10 mouse, whose left switch has far surpassed its expected rating, before failing at a critical probability junction, along with whole of humanity."

eesmith 7y ago

Or read/decode the link URL, ending "wiki/Run_commands".

agumonkey 7y ago

reminiscent of runcom (Louis Pouzin alpha shell)