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by apjana 8y ago
No, it doesn't mean by default routing over Tor. There's an option to specify proxy which you can use to route your ddgr searches using the Tor network. However, Google blocks that.
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by apjana 8y ago
Thank you for the compliment!
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by apjana 8y ago
You have the option `--url-handler` so the video can be fed to your favorite media player.
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by apjana 8y ago
Currently only text search is supported.
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by apjana 8y ago
The number of dependencies is very high. From Ubuntu 18.04: $ sudo apt install surfraw Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be i
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by apjana 8y ago
You can. Please use the option `-t`.
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by apjana 8y ago
ddgr is a cmdline utility to search DuckDuckGo from the terminal. While googler is extremely popular among cmdline users, in many forums the need of a similar utility for privacy-aware DuckDuckGo came up. DuckDuckGo Bangs are super-cool too
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Show HN: Ddgr – search DuckDuckGo from your terminal(github.com)
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File manager nnn v2.4 released. Tinier and lighter.(github.com)
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Popular File Manager Nnn v2.3 Released with Many New Features(github.com)
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Some of my terminal utilities for sysadmins (Reddit gilded)(reddit.com)
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by apjana 8y ago
You are welcome!
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Show HN: Buku – A browser-independent bookmark manager(github.com)
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by apjana 8y ago
The C utility nnn ( https://github.com/jarun/nnn ) integrates fzy for this.
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Terminal file manager nnn v2.2 released with many new features(github.com)
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Show HN: bcal – storage and general-purpose calculator(github.com)
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by apjana 8y ago
`nnn` integrates with lftp. I have added a wiki page on how to automate transfers or copy selection easily.
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by apjana 8y ago
I think you are referring to where I mentioned a large file copied second time. That is cached in RAM (I have 6GB) and not in L2. I think it's pretty clear from the context that I was emphasizing disk IO is not involved which was your
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by apjana 8y ago
- which you argued could hold a 2GB file No I didn't say that! I've always meant the metadata (that nnn needs) cache which I proved above. Clearly there's some misunderstanding.
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by apjana 8y ago
I have added a new env var DISABLE_FILE_OPEN_ON_NAV to handle this case. Thanks for bringing it out!
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by apjana 8y ago
Hey no problem! Would it be possible for you to raise a PR? There's a case for regular files.
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by apjana 8y ago
The terminal has its own advantges. But surely it's subjective. Coming to your use-cases: > use the Finder to browse ... which gives me preview, etc. Preview is not available, and there are other emerging file managers which agree t
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by apjana 8y ago
In `nnn` selection works seamlessly between multiple instances. The shell in `nnn` is also a real shell with your complete env settings. So it remembers everything. I can't think of a workflow where you are working both in the shell an
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by apjana 8y ago
There's one more thing. I was trying mc to find out more about the features. Unfortunately, I found the multi-level pop-up menus in several workflows counter-productive. One of the important goals behind `nnn`: extremely smooth workflo
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by apjana 8y ago
I expected you would run the test. Anyway, here's the data and it aligns with my expectation and figures. ## Fired `nnn` in my home dir. - all cached, no major page faults ~$ /usr/bin/time -v nnn Command
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by apjana 8y ago
Have fun!
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by apjana 8y ago
Well, I shared the numbers, I gave you ways to test it. We are done here.
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by apjana 8y ago
> Some program executables are multiple megabytes in size these days I have shared the figures from my system right now in my earlier comment. The memory required for the meta info is extremely cache-able. And yes, let's call it a d
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by apjana 8y ago
> but it is much too small to hold the kind of data you’re suggesting My toy has a 3 MB L1 cache, 8 MB L2. You'll notice from the same figures that the resident memory usage of `nnn` was 3616 KB. And in the default start (not du) ri
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by apjana 8y ago
> The processor wouldn’t cache file system meta data What _file system meta data_? The processor doesn't care what data it is! I am talking of the hw control plane and you are still lurching at pure software constructs like the kern

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