The 1st column is the lines unique to the 1st file, the 2nd column is the lines unique to the 2nd file, and the 3rd one is the lines that are not unique. -1, -2, -3 allow to disable those columns. Pretty easy to remember.
Ah, HN downvoting neutral comments again and I don't like it, but I have a policy of not upvoting anything out of pity.
I like how this article's title doesn't claim that it's about utils "that you don't know". Yet I was expecting utils that have something to do with the Linux kernel, not generic *nix command-line tools.
I did read enough of it and feel no need to read any further. If I saw an article titled "Why we should abort all boys before they are born", I wouldn't read it, but would infer that it was most likely written by some crazy feminist, who was out of touch with reality. Pointing out that this guy is out of touch with reality here on HN, where most of you are wealthy white Americans, just like that guy, is akin to commenting about that imaginary article on a feminist forum.
You recognize yourself in that guy, that's why you feel the need to defend him, that's where all those downvotes are coming from. But what I see in that guy is not myself. I see yet another whining American, who thinks that losing everything means losing something.
I had a loving girlfriend, friends and a job, and now I have none of that, but I don't claim that I lost everything, because I saw people who actually did that. They have no hope, no money, no future, nothing to wait for, only cold and real, true despair, which only to some extent can be alleviated by drinking vodka.
Why would I though? His story already sounds like something not very true and interesting. The guy exaggerates a lot and quite out of touch with reality. There're plenty of other interesting things to read on the internet.
I doubt that a person who can post about it on the internet did actually lose everything. Most likely he leads quite a luxurious life: he is a wealthy (compared to other parts of the world) American, most likely wrote his story from his MacBook and has a place to live. A lot of people can only dream about a life like his. His expectations is what makes him believe that he "lost everything".
P.S. Clicked on the link after writing this post. Yeah, the guy actually wrote it from his MacBook.
> Human judges give ugly people twice the sentences of attractive people. Judges have been shown to give significantly harsher sentences just before lunch, when they are hungry.
It would be nice if you could provide sources for these claims.
One way to access the article without getting blocked by their adblock blocker is to wait for the page to load, press <F12>, go to the debugger (in Chromium, it's the tab called "Sources") and stop JavaScript (a pause button). Then you can scroll down safely and read it.
> How do you boil a frog? You turn the heat up slowly.
Obligatory reminder that you won't be able to boil a frog by slowly turning the heat up, it would jump out. It would be nice if people stopped using this common misconception as a metaphor.
It was my first thought and after I checked the comments it seems like a general consensus of HN that the best way to turn them off is to switch to some other OS.
> (also, this appears to be a particularly difficult culture to immerse oneself in, as by the definition presented in this article, having deep social interactions with a Hikikomori makes him/her less of a Hikikomori)
Anonymous communication doesn't count as "social interactions". Imageboards are where the hikikomori culture thrives. I doubt many would remain hikkis if they were deprived of internet access.
"Gomik" means literally "faggot", the plural is "gomiki".
The suffix "-s" was being used in pre-revolutionary Russia as a way to make your speech sound more polite. Etymologically, "-s" is short for "sir". Nowadays, "-s" is used (very rarely) to imitate speech of somebody from those times, mostly for its humorous effect.
Given the above, "GoMix" sounds very ridiculous in Russian, something like "faggot, sir".