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by archduck 4y ago
Is there any actual, useful, worthwhile reason for avoiding useless `cat` though?
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by archduck 4y ago
Huh. As a hardlink avoider, I never even thought of this. (I don't have a good reason for avoiding hardlinks - it's mainly just because I didn't grok them enough to predict their behavior. When you teach yourself, you gotta e
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by archduck 4y ago
Whoa, realpath includes some flags for relative paths as well! That's bad ass. I was surprised to see it was already installed with coreutils, so I've apparently had it for a while now. Thanks for the heads up.
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by archduck 4y ago
Nice, thank you! I did not know about `realpath`. Piping absolute paths and copying them to the clipboard is a pattern I use a lot, so this tip will get substantial mileage out of me.
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by archduck 4y ago
When I need to shuffle around and/or rename my media files, for instance, it's risky to operate on the originals themselves. I've screwed up hundreds of mp3 files by issuing a bad `rename` command. I've lost the hierarch
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by archduck 4y ago
I was surprised to see `$()` missing from this (otherwise quite extensive) list. There are a few commands listed which employ it, but it absolutely deserves its own entry. That and `readlink -f` to get the absolute path of a file. (Doesn&#x
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DTL – for manipulating data and JSON templating and CLI tools(getdtl.org)
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by archduck 5y ago
Regarding why you got the downvotes, I have a guess: "Have you (maybe) considered not ..." usually gets followed by something that's transparently stupid or incompetent or otherwise undesirable in the given context. For examp
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by archduck 5y ago
You'll get a syntax error if you try to run that - braces need spaces. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21186724/why-is-whitespa... (The link here doubles as an explanation and as a warning to anyone thin
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by archduck 5y ago
Fortunately, we won't have to wait for a fix much longer: Version 0.300 is almost out. (Note: I am not responsible for any irreparably cracked teeth, chunk-wise hair loss, or overexertion-onset voice loss sustained from reading this co
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by archduck 5y ago
American: "Do you have kids?" Brit: "Not very often"
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by archduck 5y ago
Or ecofascist movements, which acknowledge that we humans have shit the bed, but whose ecofascist solution to climate change is just to mobilize the military to enforce our ownership and exclusive control over our temperate lands, in the fa
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by archduck 5y ago
Here's a Twitter account dedicated to the many self-congratulatory posts on LinkedIn: https://mobile.twitter.com/bestoflinkedin It's its own unintentional genre. Once you learn to recognize it, you see it everywhe
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by archduck 5y ago
Do they get routed differently then? (911 ringing up the dispatcher who's fielded the most heart attacks)
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by archduck 5y ago
Conceptual metaphor is different from literary metaphor. It's one of the first things Lakoff talks about.
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by archduck 5y ago
Sorry, but “the only punctuation mark that regularly unites readers and writers in deep-seated repugnance” is not a full sentence. It should indeed be a colon.
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by archduck 5y ago
It's no different from "a nice time in the islands," "a runty pick of the litter," etc. What's probably tripping you up is that "rest" is usually a noun that takes predicative adjective rather than a
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by archduck 5y ago
Forget taxes. The wealthy derive their wealth from capital - ownership of means of making more money. Their involvement with the tax system is chiefly to use their influence to prevent their wealth from being taxed as much as possible - not
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by archduck 5y ago
True, there's a lot of crap blog posts out there, but I dare say that that's a good thing. An important part of learning how to write code is developing code literacy, which includes being exposed to bad code as well. If the inter
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by archduck 5y ago
Reading this comment really pissed me off, and I felt compelled to strike back, but upon seeing from the replies that it pissed off a lot of other people too, I feel much better.
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by archduck 5y ago
The same author, Oliver Burkeman, wrote a similarly life-changing book as well, entitled The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking . Besides Buddhism, it also covers stoicism, the inevitability of death, and
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by archduck 5y ago
Same thing for the US as well: China stopped importing trash, so we just started chucking ours into landfills, which isn't a great way to keep people motivated about recycling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gNZtI7hbv
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by archduck 5y ago
Rent-seeking is nevertheless what landlords are doing via the collection of rent on a leased house, in the cast majority of cases. If the rent being charged is in excess of market value, there is indisputably a surplus profit being pocketed
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by archduck 5y ago
Kroger also elected to close three locations in Los Angeles rather than hike their employees' pay $5/hr in accordance with a new (temporary) hazard pay during covid. It gets argued again and again that the profit incentive is nece
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by archduck 5y ago
Yes!! The lack of green-blue distinction is prevalent enough in linguistics that the term "grue" has entered the lexicon. Paul and Kay (1969) argue for a linguistic universal which posits that the set of which colors a language
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by archduck 5y ago
Classifieds were a huge source of income as well.
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by archduck 5y ago
Bing's image search still lets you view the image or copy the image url directly from the search result.
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by archduck 5y ago
The problem of evil arises when all three of the following are true: 1) the deity is omniscient; 2) the deity is omnipotent; 3) the deity is omnibenevolent. If God knows all, can do all, and is all good, why does evil exist? If any of tho
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by archduck 5y ago
It's soul-crushing to write a cover letter characterizing yourself as passionate about <menial work> and super interested in <company that you would never work for if you had a good alternative> as well.
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by archduck 5y ago
That's a good example. The author is committing the etymological fallacy here - there was nothing like Singapore (or the USA, for that matter) a mere few centuries ago, so while the history of the word may inform us, it is not sufficie

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