zsh is my main

though i grew up on bash and write scripts targeting sh

cmd.exe has entered the chat

rookies

i gave up saving for retirement when it became clear we were going to do fuck all about climate change

i regret burdening you with this knowledge

class A amnestics should be freely available from your local [redacted] should you desire

well that is an upside

tv series rather than film but: The Dresden Files

worst change? everything

harry’s staff – carved from a lightning struck tree from the property of his mentor, iirc, and carved with various runes – is replaced with a hockey stick

bob the skull – a constructed sprit of intellect bound to a skull – is now a ghost of some guy

they made lt murphy a brunette

probably more idk I didn’t get more than an episode in and that was years ago

hard agree

is the fact that people can with effort and error figure out how to do something a reason not to make it easier for them to do?

I mean

you can in theory write multi-threaded bug-free C code – just read the docs and the specs and the source of your libs and never ever do something that seems to work but is subtly fatally incorrect

and yet we still have golang and rust and many other options to do things more safely and easily

if someone wants to use Linux but doesn’t want to memorize the Hundred Mandatory Commands and Thousand Flags lest they accidentally cat > /dev/sda, why shouldn’t there be a system for them?

as a professional sociotechnical problem solver I will join you on this fatal hill

like take the 4 types of documentation in diátaxis

man pages usually fulfill the reference need, and sometimes kind of that of how-to guides if you’re lucky and your local man has examples

but that leaves more than 50% of documentation needs lacking

and discoverability is atrocious – you have to already know that the command (or commands) you need exists and what it’s called

one of the most useful things I learned in a linux sysadmin course was apropos / man -k, which lets you search installed man pages by keyword. but hardly anyone else seems to know about it – I only learned of it because a teaching assistant mentioned it off hand! – and even then it only helps if you guess the right keyword for your problem

I am vexed by this situation

RÞFM

ftfy

I’ve long used GPT as a tool in pursuit of my core value: Truth

“We accidentally invented computers that can lie to us and we can’t figure out how to make them stop”

nah

they might release the elusive third partyon

get turned into animal. Or a monster. Or impregnated by Zeus.

Zeus:

Loki turned into a mare, got pregnant by a magic stallion, and gave birth to an eight-legged horse.

OK. I won’t push you for the details, since you’ve stated you will not elaborate.

But, for anyone else reading, I honestly want to know what these terrible things were; it matters to me how companies behave and have behaved in the past. I cannot for the life of me find anything online, bar like “they did some propaganda (but so did many other companies)”. Please weigh in if you know.

oh

i mean yeah their stance there is pretty bad

but idk if i would put them in the same class as nestle blackrock et al

no

wait what did nintendo do