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cmehdy
·20 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
People's shortening attention span. Must retain.

Explanation still required, therefore statement must concisely outline product. Feature retains attention.

Simple outtro. Attention retained.

It is not a bug, it is a feature.
cmehdy
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Powershell is a great scripting language, but when you want to massively delete stuff I strongly suggest you use "robocopy /MIR" with an empty folder as source to be "mirrored". Much faster, better multithreaded performance, decent logging. It will save you a ton of time if we're talking about large and/or numerous files.
cmehdy
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I'll vouch for this. I have a USB drive set up with Ventoy, which has the ability to install its TPM certs when booting from USB. It has a couple Linux ISOs and one Win11. It also has a Ventoy config tying that ISO to an autounattended XML built from that exact site.

The result is an install with no copilot/cortana/widgets, a win defender that can be disabled, no auto updates at all, a local account only, no taskbar shenanigans, properly configured explorer, some registry tweaks, runtimes pre-installed, extra drivers if needed, and QoL settings tweaked how I want them.

The OS installs itself in a few minutes with no intervention after the disk/partitioning stuff which I kept manual. It ends up being faster than the Ubuntu and CachyOs installs from the same drive. Then 2mins with massgrave post install if I haven't provided a key already.

When it is set up that way, Windows is decently fast and stable. And I have some control over it, at least whenever I need to enforce something.
cmehdy
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
TP-link routers. Entirely unsurprising.
cmehdy
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Like traces of a younger Internet, where placeholders didn't have to matter and being uptight about this stuff was considered annoying by many colleagues.

It also feels like it could be reused across a bunch of languages and words. Supposedly noreply.com is up for sale, for the mere price of a very small studio in your expensive city of choice.

I'm sure other cases would net some results. By extensions (noreply.co.uk), words (useless.com sells clothes, ignoreme.com is apparently a Japanese static site) or even languages (nepasutiliser.fr) or across languages (deleted.fr is up for grabs..).
cmehdy
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Require interactivity (ask for confirmation on cat).

Output success error codes in unexpected range (see: robocopy).

Use special characters to try TUI things but leave the buffer in weird states.

Have many input params, and default to the most useless ones when nothing is passed. Make some params unnecessarily required.

Go on very long tangents for no reason in the manpage, but keep your -h message as just the list of badly named params.

Use stderr as your stdout.

---- I present to you worse-cat:

wcat notes.txt

error: --encoding is required. Exiting.

wcat --encoding=utf-8 notes.txt

┌─────────────────────────────────┐

│ About to display: notes.txt │

│ Are you sure? [y/N/maybe]: │

└─────────────────────────────────┘

y

stdout: ≈3 paragraphs

stderr: [file content]

echo $?

212

(I'll save you the manpage and worse-ls)
cmehdy
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Now I'm considering making a Matt Parker pie: a spherical pie made from a normal pie + calling it close enough in 2 out of 3 dimensions.
cmehdy
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> The company now offers affected users two years of free three-bureau credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Equifax, which require enrollment by June 30, 2026.

How tasteful.
cmehdy
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Incentives invite inventive invectives?
cmehdy
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The option exists on Samsung phones but is greyed out and crashes if you force it via adb. It is also marked as experimental.
cmehdy
·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Titanfall 2 is a fantastic game with perhaps the best single player FPS campaign for fast FPS games, and a skill ceiling that's incredibly high in multiplayer which is still alive to this day. Did you mean to say "terrific" instead of terrible?
cmehdy
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I'm not sure if I've angered you or if you're agreeing with me that something no-bullshit like Dygma and their software is much more welcoming than the status quo (even though purists will say "but it isn't QMK or ZMK!!1! and it has too many keys!!1!").

I considered other keyboards and essentially preferred having a UI that makes sense, a keyboard that does more than I need, and a ton of helpful videos that explain things in clear terms.

While I don't have a PhD like you do, I value the attitude as much as you do. So I'm hoping my original message didn't come across as putting you down somehow.
cmehdy
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
If that's any help I personally found this attitude with a company called Dygma, specifically with their Dygma Defy keyboard.

They have tons of Youtube videos answering basically every question one could have, and the keyboard is substantially larger with more keys which means less wizardry getting used to these kinds of keyboards. Example: which keyboard to buy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8FeBPREzZA

I might end up buying smaller keyboards in the future if I lean more into the whole "modifier keys to do crazy stuff", but for now I'm extremely satisfied with the no-bullshit comfortable solution that the Defy offers me, and I do not care one bit about not using this or that custom firmware. It just works and works well.

Keyboards like the one in OP are definitely not for people who dont know much about split kbs, or who don't know what ortholinear and columnar and home row modifiers and QMK and ZMK mean.

If Dygma seems too corporate, too expensive, or too locked down of a firmware for you, the Glove80 and the Moonlander would probably be the best picks/search terms.
cmehdy
·9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I work at a company that invented an internal syntax to compile into C++ code, that still relies on c-shell and conventions taken when OS/2 was in use there, and with a web of Jenkins instances and homemade wrappers and DBs to build that stuff.

I can safely say that title exists already. And I value my current experience as a humbling example of what is to come as software becomes an older industry, and not just a world of startups and their freshest languages/frameworks/tools.