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Posted on GitHub: "unfortunately I lost the Go source code"

SillyUsername 2y ago
Followed up with "but it was pretty simple, like under 30 lines" So simple in fact, that it wasn't quickly rewritten and added to GitHub...
- adtac 2y ago
  I should stop writing code in files like /tmp/x.go no matter how throwaway I think the code might be. I still have the linux/armv7 binary if anyone wants it lol.
  - stavros 2y ago
    Oh man, apparently I'm not alone in using /tmp/ as my storage space. I like it because it's self-cleaning!
    - medstrom 2y ago
      You could have /home/junk2020, /home/junk2021, /home/junk2022 etc. Still self-cleaning, but it's once a year.
      - stavros 2y ago
        Or I could have /home/junk, self-cleaning but never!
        girishso 2y ago
        That is me, I have `/home/delme` since forever!
    - vrotaru 2y ago
      You know what else is self-cleaning? /dev/shm The advantage being that it does not even touch the disk.
      - _flux 2y ago
        One can use tmpfs for /tmp as well (and I do it).
    - _flux 2y ago
      I present you my most used shell function: cdtmp() { cd $(mktemp -d) }
      - stavros 2y ago
        That's fantastic, thanks! I always used to do this by hand. Though one downside is that the name is random, and it's hard to go back if you CD out. I might use diceware to make a memorable random name.
        _flux 2y ago
        I agree that sometimes that is a problem, so I find out the latest tmp directory with ls -tr /tmp | tail. But using nicer names would help with that. So I took your tip and now I have cdtmp() { local name name=/tmp/$(diceware --no-caps -d - -n 2) mkdir $name && cd $name } I decided not to worry about the directory existing already, or of the other checks mktemp -d would do for me in my single-user system.. I suppose mktemp -d -t cdtmpXXX would work almost as well. Thanks for the idea!
        stavros 2y ago
        Thank you! That's very neat, I'll implement this myself as well.
  - e-Minguez 2y ago
    I'm team /home/user/Downloads/tmp
- gala8y 2y ago
  This resonates funnily with "I hacked this together last night for fun" a bit down the page.
- theonemind 2y ago
  "It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain" - Pierre De Fermat
  - thaumasiotes 2y ago
    > It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes Later disproved by the Banach-Tarski theorem. ;D
- tuananh 2y ago
  where is this posted? i didn't see in in gist.github link.
  - SillyUsername 2y ago
    It's under the section "step 2"

Followed up with "but it was pretty simple, like under 30 lines" So simple in fact, that it wasn't quickly rewritten and added to GitHub...

adtac 2y ago
I should stop writing code in files like /tmp/x.go no matter how throwaway I think the code might be. I still have the linux/armv7 binary if anyone wants it lol.
- stavros 2y ago
  Oh man, apparently I'm not alone in using /tmp/ as my storage space. I like it because it's self-cleaning!
  - medstrom 2y ago
    You could have /home/junk2020, /home/junk2021, /home/junk2022 etc. Still self-cleaning, but it's once a year.
    - stavros 2y ago
      Or I could have /home/junk, self-cleaning but never!
      - girishso 2y ago
        That is me, I have `/home/delme` since forever!
  - vrotaru 2y ago
    You know what else is self-cleaning? /dev/shm The advantage being that it does not even touch the disk.
    - _flux 2y ago
      One can use tmpfs for /tmp as well (and I do it).
  - _flux 2y ago
    I present you my most used shell function: cdtmp() { cd $(mktemp -d) }
    - stavros 2y ago
      That's fantastic, thanks! I always used to do this by hand. Though one downside is that the name is random, and it's hard to go back if you CD out. I might use diceware to make a memorable random name.
      - _flux 2y ago
        I agree that sometimes that is a problem, so I find out the latest tmp directory with ls -tr /tmp | tail. But using nicer names would help with that. So I took your tip and now I have cdtmp() { local name name=/tmp/$(diceware --no-caps -d - -n 2) mkdir $name && cd $name } I decided not to worry about the directory existing already, or of the other checks mktemp -d would do for me in my single-user system.. I suppose mktemp -d -t cdtmpXXX would work almost as well. Thanks for the idea!
        stavros 2y ago
        Thank you! That's very neat, I'll implement this myself as well.
- e-Minguez 2y ago
  I'm team /home/user/Downloads/tmp
gala8y 2y ago
This resonates funnily with "I hacked this together last night for fun" a bit down the page.
theonemind 2y ago
"It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain" - Pierre De Fermat
- thaumasiotes 2y ago
  > It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes Later disproved by the Banach-Tarski theorem. ;D
tuananh 2y ago
where is this posted? i didn't see in in gist.github link.
- SillyUsername 2y ago
  It's under the section "step 2"