I love that his name is O.G. San (Ojiisan, Grandpa in Japanese)
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Tekhne@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•We all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?
1·1 year agoNot an expert by any means, but I’d guess that has to do with the distinction between being on top of something, and having boarded something. You are on top of a (small) boat or motorcycle, but within a car. These examples refer to position. You can be both in or on a bus, plane, or yacht, because you have boarded the bus, plane, or yacht, and thus are “on” it, but are located physically within the vehicle and so are also “in” it (in the case of a yacht, that may depend on whether you’re inside it or on top of it). These examples refer to both position and state of existence.
This is totally conjecture so I’d be very curious to hear from an actual expert.
Tekhne@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•We all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?
1·1 year agoI’m shocked no one else pointed this out. This isn’t a rule of grammar — this is a style rule, which isn’t actually part of the English language. Different style guides recommend different things. This happens to be specifically delineated by American/Canadian style guides vs British/Australian style guides; however anyone could publish a style guide. If USA Today decided to make and publish a style guide that they used in their articles that said there should be periods both within and after a quote, that would be valid by that styleguide.
Tekhne@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How is dating with your mental disorder if you have one?
8·1 year agoAs someone with a mental disorder, I prefer
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I have the same but it’s called “please”
Tekhne@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•People of Lemmy, what does your egg carton look like? No fair changing the setup for the picture.
2·1 year agoOh yay I get to post the relevant XKCD! https://xkcd.com/2408/
Tekhne@sh.itjust.worksto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What helps people get comfortable on the command line?
7·1 year agoMaybe controversial, but the fish shell. I know it’s not strictly bash syntax, but the OOTB features are just so user-friendly. The most helpful features for learning: the autocomplete (with descriptions of subcommands and flags!) and the fuzzy history search.
I write bash scripts all the time, and am significantly more knowledgeable than anyone else on my team (admittedly frontend) because I got comfortable in fish.
Tekhne@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches?
1·1 year agoYou can do a lot of sites! https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
Tekhne@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches?
2·1 year agoI have the same situation. DDG has a feature where you can write “!g query” and search for “query” on Google. I use that as a fallback whenever DDG fails to yield good results - it’s super easy!
Honestly, good security instincts by your dad though. If you’re not technical enough to understand the risks, you probably shouldn’t be connecting to random servers
Or looking for asexual men! Not all asexual men are aromantic, which sounds to me like what you’re looking for - someone who wants a romantic relationship but not sex. Or maybe someone demisexual - interested in sex, but only with someone they already have romantic feelings with.
Tekhne@sh.itjust.worksto
Linux@lemmy.ml•So apparently you can just, type the word eject into bash and it will pop open your disk drive
6·2 years agoYou could’ve made music out of ejecting/retracting those all at different times!
Would’ve actually been fantastic distributed systems practice, synchronizing all of those to tight tolerances of music across a network connection…
Tekhne@sh.itjust.worksto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Which graphical system utlities you miss on Linux?
3·2 years agoAnother really helpful tool is to use the fish shell instead of bash. It has tons of useful features, but my favorite is by far the autocomplete. It parses man pages to provide suggestions for flags, subcommands, even passed arguments, and each item in the results list has a description, and it’s all searchable by hitting shift+tab.


That’s what leveled up my cli game from 0-100. It’s a massive difference in usability and discoverability. And unlike things like nushell, it’s close enough to bash that you won’t feel confused if you have to use bash instead.
My best recommendation is a good git GUI. I really like Gitkraken (proprietary & freemium unfortunately, but a pretty generous free plan). I’m now more advanced than many of my coworkers because it helped me form an intuitive understanding of git.
Tekhne@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Would you agree that this is a good list to stop ads on the internet?
1·2 years agoDuckDuckGo has an app which can block trackers system-wide on Android
Tekhne@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What about clicking a checkbox means I'm human? How does Cloudflare determine I'm human from that?
14·2 years agoYeah, never thought about this before, but how do blind users deal with captchas?
What do you have against the number 4?
Tekhne@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What web browser extensions would you highly recommend to others?
2·2 years agoThat’s what decentraleyes does as well
Kinda like a luck-based Freaky Friday… Starring Lindsay Lohan 🤔