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A shining example of the benefits of a purely plant-based diet (of course I am referring to manufacturing plants, chemical plants, and packaging plants, mostly)

NoZebra120vClip

3년 전discuss

Bro the hospital opened in 2015. What makes you say it did not?

https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2015/10/24/yamoussouk...

NoZebra120vClip

3년 전discuss

Sure, what is the standard URI format for a really long piece of tractor feed paper?

I'm sure you could dig around into my hometown's landfill for awhile. They're only 30 years sediment. I'll send you a tarp, shovel, duct tape to stick the pages back together, and my sister's old clothes to wear while you work. DM for deets.

NoZebra120vClip

3년 전discuss

I'm not sure that I follow: you chose options "-exc" so:

  XTRACE (-x, ksh: -x)
  Print commands and their arguments as they are executed.

So if you use "zsh -ec" does it still surprise you?

-x is the most invaluable tool in my shell-debugging toolkit. It is great to see every command evaluated and run alongside the script output itself. I use it multiple times per day at work.

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3년 전discuss

In college we used to print out "one-page" ASCII art on the LPs. Naturally, it could get rather risqué. But I would just stare into them, marveling at the ingenuity. Of course I'd already been into it awhile, thanks to C64 Print Shop.

Also my father produced tonnes of scratch paper in narrow strips. I found a way to weave them into a perpetually-growing "tractor-feed snake" which I placed in a padded crib and brought to grade school to show off. I would typically juggle a few bits and bobs to attract even more attention...

NoZebra120vClip

3년 전discuss

But in an ideal world, if every tool is careful to restrict it to one page or less, you'd literally never need a pager anymore.

Alternatively, tools could build in pagers for fewer pipeline surprises, like the all-encompassing systemd.

Even better, I could envision a framework where any tool that produces output can be automatically subject to pagination, with auto terminal detection and the whole bit. Think of libreadline but for output. You could thereby eliminate plenty of ad hoc hacks.

NoZebra120vClip

3년 전discuss

What's a page? I set all my terminals to 22x23. Will --help run a few quick ioctls to calculate screen size?

But yeah, agree. It's way more preferable to have surprise output on stderr than surprises mingling with stdout, and it's good to be prepared for that.

Frankly, I nearly quit piping to a pager when GUI terminal backscroll became easy and infinite.

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3년 전discuss

Well, if you're moving the goalposts, then I'm out

NoZebra120vClip

3년 전discuss

Are you entitled to know your neighbor's bank account balance and transaction history? Are you entitled to know the mineral composition and spectra of every planet around Vega? Are you entitled to know misinformation in its uncensored form? Are you entitled to know the specs of China's nuclear arsenal, including name rank and serial number of every soldier in charge of it?

NoZebra120vClip

3년 전discuss

Regarding E.T., I believe that Hollywood is beginning to show how chagrined they are for perpetuating the "guns = cool" ethos along with, and long before, video games.

How many anti-2A crusader actors have wielded enormous firepower and used it to blow away all the bad guys on the silver screen?

Its's almost as hypocritical as the politicians who all rely on good-guy guns (and significantly stronger military armor & firepower) to keep them all safe.

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