For the ‘I use … BTW’ meme to say something else.

No, actually, I can’t think of anything. I’m pretty comfortable with it at this point. Been running it since 2013…

Well that makes sense

Anyway never mind that. Back down the fat mines

. philosophy is important, but implementation is importanter

Yes. This is the key

I don’t mind a bullshit meme, most memes are bullshit. Sometimes the bullshittery itself is the funny bit, or to put it another way, there are times like this where the absurdity of it is what’s funny to me. Like, Linux’s kill levels operate, as they must, as advice to the running process, because the os has no insight or capability as to how to gracefully close a process - nor should it. It’s an impossible task to know what safe cleanup looks like. But I like the image of the Linux penguin shooting Firefox tbqh

One task lifecycle management tool to bring them all, one tool to find them. One tool to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.

They’re not though are they. Remember the pain of the last time you tried to write a portable sed then just gave up and used a `perl -pe’? That’s real. We’ve all been there.

Why is fzf, the best utility, relegated to the end? And why is ripgrep - a huge improvement over grep, especially if you want to search only on committed files in a git directory - not even mentioned? This list is outrageous. Even more so because I can’t pretend to have known about all of these before, and annoyingly now have to face the fact that some of these actually look pretty handy.

I know, right? It turns up on the sorrel in my garden every year

I have actually had to write something that used the Google drive API for a friend’s company once and it was… Unpleasant. Counterintuitive. Woefully inconsistent. My solution worked but it sucked and I am a bit ashamed of it

Alas, doesn’t fit my purpose since it requires action by the script user. I usually just use perl in those situations

I can never get grep to work consistently on Mac and Linux. Now, ripgrep OTOH…

This site is so good. Have found literally everything I’ve ever looked for there. Sometimes the torrents take a few hours to get trickling, but there are some absolute heroes seeding there

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Technically to meet OPs criteria it needs only be a rich number in base 10, not necessarily a normal one. Although being normal would certainly be sufficient

I set up a nix os for a friend once. Forgot the master password. It’s been 5 years. Oh well.

This is great advice. It’s easy to get disheartened with a spinning torrent, but heroes like you can turn that around.

https://bylinetimes.com ?

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That doesn’t look like a particularly difficult challenge? Like, it’s just an implementation game, move returns a data type that you write yourself

Edit: I suppose there’s life in that kind of ambiguous variation though