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Adam Savage was talking about a scribing tool for machining which was very expensive, but which he likes very much [0]. Before recommending it, however, he fel

Adam Savage was talking about a scribing tool for machining which was very expensive, but which he likes very much [0]. Before recommending it, however, he felt it important to mention that for people who don't machine very much, far cheaper scribes work well because unless it's your job, your tooling is less likely to be the bottleneck, and you have fewer resources. When you machine professionally, you're tooling is likely your bottleneck and you've more resources. I think this holds for tech and software. Think of resources here as "time spent learning APIs, bash, and remembering tar mnemonics". At first, dragging and dropping folders isn't going to be your bottleneck. Need to move 1000s of folders scattered on the hard-drive? If you're not using a terminal, you'll be in trouble. Everyone cares about UX, it's their experience when using tech. It's just that GUIs are better for some contexts than others. [0] https://youtu.be/n5laGi3GO7M?t=356 https://youtu.be/n5laGi3GO7M?t=356

swiley 6y ago
Except with tar you don't even have to memorize anything, tar --help will tell you what you forgot. ~ $ tar --help BusyBox v1.31.1 (2020-03-26 00:59:22 -00) multi-call binary. Usage: tar c|x|t [-ZzJjahmvokO] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [-T FILE] [-X FILE] [--exclude PATTERN]... [FILE]... Create, extract, or list files from a tar file c Create x Extract t List -f FILE Name of TARFILE ('-' for stdin/out) -C DIR Change to DIR before operation -v Verbose -O Extract to stdout -m Don't restore mtime -o Don't restore user:group -k Don't replace existing files -Z (De)compress using compress -z (De)compress using gzip -J (De)compress using xz -j (De)compress using bzip2 -a (De)compress using lzma -h Follow symlinks -T FILE File with names to include -X FILE File with glob patterns to exclude --exclude PATTERN Glob pattern to exclude ~ $ And what's the recent surprise UI change? That xz decompression gets autodetected and doesn't need -J? Most software isn't even as friendly as that infamous command.

swiley 6y ago

Except with tar you don't even have to memorize anything, tar --help will tell you what you forgot. ~ $ tar --help BusyBox v1.31.1 (2020-03-26 00:59:22 -00) multi-call binary. Usage: tar c|x|t [-ZzJjahmvokO] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [-T FILE] [-X FILE] [--exclude PATTERN]... [FILE]... Create, extract, or list files from a tar file c Create x Extract t List -f FILE Name of TARFILE ('-' for stdin/out) -C DIR Change to DIR before operation -v Verbose -O Extract to stdout -m Don't restore mtime -o Don't restore user:group -k Don't replace existing files -Z (De)compress using compress -z (De)compress using gzip -J (De)compress using xz -j (De)compress using bzip2 -a (De)compress using lzma -h Follow symlinks -T FILE File with names to include -X FILE File with glob patterns to exclude --exclude PATTERN Glob pattern to exclude ~ $ And what's the recent surprise UI change? That xz decompression gets autodetected and doesn't need -J? Most software isn't even as friendly as that infamous command.