jfrunyon

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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Yeah... no. Also definitely not the case. If I actually am remembering it correctly then it's probably from Fedora circa FC5 or Ubuntu circa 6.06. Back when I was in school and had never touched Linux other than on my own computer.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Nope, I don't.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
You're assuming the long version is more well known than the short version. That's a wildly and provably false assumption. Do you know, without referring to the manpage, exactly what `cp --no-dereference --preserve=links --recursi
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
I never said that wasn't the case. That doesn't mean anyone else's attitude is the cause of problems caused by your own choices. #!/bin/bash
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
... huh. No, no alias, I just misread the manpage. I could've sworn that -I was the default......
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Sounds to me like your choice of OS is what makes your life harder...
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
That's why they mentioned `grep -v`. Go look it up. It doesn't mean verbose OR version. Doubt you'd be printing out a version number in a shell script though.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
You literally always need -f with -r in a script (unless you want rm to prompt the user), though...
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
`rm -rf` is much more recognizable than `rm --recursive --force`. `tar -cvf` is much more recognizable than `tar --create --verbose --file`. Moreover, why are you writing a shell script if it's NOT quick and dirty?
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
They never said the web page decided. (Although, to an extent, the contents of the webpage do determine how long the browser will keep the connection open. Also, WebSockets exist.)
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Even for most businesses it should be the norm. When you think about it, most businesses have almost no actual dynamic content on their website - other than any login/interactivity features, they might change at most a few times a day.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Who are these "people" you're talking about? I would much rather live close to everything and walk, bike or bus. Instead I have to have a car because work is 3 miles away, doctors are 5-30 miles away, the grocery store is 5
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Meanwhile, most of those ways to hide latency have other issues, like the good old "link I need is below the infinite scroll" or "I just want to go back to a specific time, but I have to scroll through every single thing betw
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Then what went wrong in Windows 7? ;)
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
OTA: Yes. Cable: no, you'd need a CableCard, and approved device (i.e. DVR), etc.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
cough Ubuntu cough cough systemd cough
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
By who? Many people wouldn't even be able to reliably tell the difference with common dpi's and viewing distances.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure. Oops. > Then there are those pushing computers into schools. We're told that mu
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Easy answer: because expenses are higher for poor people. Instead of buying a home, the lower class rent their whole life. Instead of their daddy giving them a home, the middle class pay interest on a mortgage most of their life. Instead of
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Doesn't surprise me. Spectrum has the same thing here in the US. All their devices have telnet or SSH or web access on an internal VLAN, with weak passwords like "T!m3W4rn3rC4bl3" (I'm not joking). A list of passwords wa
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
I wonder how long it will take Google to "update" the feeds and break this. Also, I feel Google might have some problems with this person selling an API for Google's data. (The "Google News API" for which this proje
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Many people (do I dare say most?) don't read their personal emails in a timely manner. Heck, most people don't read their work emails in a timely matter, if my coworkers are anything to go by... ;)
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Management says: Easily usable interface with almost no confusion: bad, looks ugly. Barely usable interface with barely discernible elements: good, looks modern.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
/proc/.../exe exists. ETA: and most Linux apps will just sit there blocking in the syscall, or at the very worst, retry/show an error/crash.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Errr... the general answer to "can I know the full path of the binary that was used to spawn <process>?" is "sure, just `readlink /proc/<process>/exe`".
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
The really old ones didn't even have a "remember this choice" checkbox.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
The Razr's had a camera... it might have been useless, but they did have one.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> dictate all choices of every ally of the US, including all NATO members, as well as all of Asia. Oh, you mean... kinda like the US does? How deep do you think our alliances that haven't even survived a century run?