It was fun to spell aloud when I was 7.
I guess you missed the reply already pointing this out.
- update:
Hotkey open terminal -> sudo apt update/upgrade -> done. Never had to touch the stupid mouse. Same with all sorts of tasks.
- email:
Hotkey open terminal -> neomutt -> quickly sort/delete/reply -> done. Never had to touch the stupid mouse.
- file transfer:
Hotkey open terminal -> scp <info> -> done. Never touched the mouse.
and so on.
If you like using a GUI, use a GUI. I'm not saying you can't, but you sure are missing out on a lot of command-line awesomeness. I've never heard anyone argue that a GUI is quicker than command line, just more comfortable for a lot of neophytes. I mean, sure, gaming, browsing the web, graphics stuff, GUIs are great, if not essential.
I would always laugh when he was being a dick. Just from every interview I've seen with the guy he comes across as a good one, and then here he was acting like he was. I kept imagining the director yelling "CUT!" and Wil immediately apologizing for the bullying.
Learn something every day. China ≈ Europe ≈ US as far as area.
We, at least in the US, are living in a "post factual" world. So this makes perfect sense. Like when my kid was small and everytime he thought he "lost" at something he would declare it Opposite Day. Fuck it, why not? M$ being the most open OS makes no sense, so it makes total sense. War is Peacetm
So roughly the same size. I then wondered about population and saw that Europe has over twice the population. Which surprised my immediate expectations. Then again, I live in a pretty densely part of the US, so I think it twisted my thinking. In my past, I spent most of a decade living in Europe. I also spent a couple of years after living in Europe working as a long haul trucker in the US. Reflecting on those memories, it shouldn't have surprised me.
Not that this has too much to do with the original point, that the US has a shitty train system. Which is true. But check out our military!! Ra-ra, or some shit.
"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." - Dementia Felon trump
I guess it's OK what he said because, hey, they aren't all bad...
The United States (9,826,630 km2 / 3,794,080 sq mi) is larger than the European Union (4,233,262 km2 / 1,634,472 sq mi)
Not using the terminal is like buying a race car and not using the higher gears. I mean, you can, but what's the fucking point?
If things go as they seem to be planned, the US will now abandon Ukraine, and aggressively support Israeli atrocities.
It is so freaking weird that this tool gets reelected. I get that he comes from a stupid state (42nd in education), but surely there is a more palatable republican somewhere in there?
I hate to admit I thought this was an onion post, and I was going to find an article about a young woman discovering Earth.
They are also on here instead of reddit, so they are really in much more rarefied air.
I do not like this reality. At all.
Thanks for explaining to dude. It's so frustrating talking about anything with politics here in the US. A big part of that is we don't have shared definitions of what terms mean. That's not even taking account of the just pure, willful ignorance of a good percentage of the population.
I think Liberals kept him off the ticket.
Knowledge Request: Rewriting URLs
I can't seem to figure this out. I've been trying out different news aggregator sites to use as a home page. Right now I'm using skimfeed. I like it, but the links all have skimfeed baggage tacked on. Like this: https://skimfeed.com/r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F
Well, the source looks like this:
``` <span class='boxtitles'><h2><a class='siteurls ts33' href='/news/xkcd.html'>XKCD</a> <a class='siteurls atat' href='http://xkcd.com' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>+</a></h2></span>
<ul><li class='nl1 bd33'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' title='Demons'>Demons</a> </li><li class='nl2 bd75'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15642742&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3005%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' </li></ul></div> ```
Which, to be honest, is Greek to me. I'd like to rewrite the links so that they just look like https://xkcd.com/3006/ I don't really care what the link looks like, per se, the encoded bits. I just don't like the extra skimfeed stuff. Aesthetically.
Is there an extension or something that will help me with this? The couple I've looked at are either too complicated for my caveman brain, or site specific (i.e., remove google tracking). If I'm just being a little too retentive, feel free to let me know that too.
A couple terminal utils
I don't know if anyone could use these, but I thought I'd share two commands I use sometimes while trying out different terminals. In my .bash_aliases file I have:
alias whatterm="ps -o 'cmd=' -p $(ps -o 'ppid=' -p $$)"
example:
$ whatterm alacritty
and I have the following script saved in my local bin directory as testterm. I don't know how great of a test it is, but it shows the capabilities of different terminals and I like the pretty colors.
``` #!/bin/sh
echo "# 24-bit (true-color)"
based on: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
term_cols="$(tput cols || echo 80)" cols=$(echo "2^((l($term_cols)/l(2))-1)" | bc -l 2> /dev/null) rows=$(( cols / 2 )) awk -v cols="$cols" -v rows="$rows" 'BEGIN{ s=" "; m=cols+rows; for (row = 0; row<rows; row++) { for (col = 0; col<cols; col++) { i = row+col; r = 255-(i255/m); g = (i510/m); b = (i*255/m); if (g>255) g = 510-g; printf "\033[48;2;%d;%d;%dm", r,g,b; printf "\033[38;2;%d;%d;%dm", 255-r,255-g,255-b; printf "%s\033[0m", substr(s,(col+row)%2+1,1); } printf "\n"; } printf "\n\n"; }'
echo "# text decorations" echo '\e[1mbold\e[22m' echo '\e[2mdim\e[22m' echo '\e[3mitalic\e[23m' echo '\e[4munderline\e[24m' echo '\e[4:1mthis is also underline\e[4:0m' echo '\e[21mdouble underline\e[24m' echo '\e[4:2mthis is also double underline\e[4:0m' echo '\e[4:3mcurly underline\e[4:0m' echo '\e[58;5;10;4mcolored underline\e[59;4:0m' echo '\e[5mblink\e[25m' echo '\e[7mreverse\e[27m' echo '\e[8minvisible\e[28m <- invisible (but copy-pasteable)' echo '\e[9mstrikethrough\e[29m' echo '\e[53moverline\e[55m' echo
echo "# magic string (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Web)" echo "é Δ Й ק م ๗ あ 叶 葉 말" echo
echo "# emojis" echo "😃😱😵" echo
echo "# right-to-left ('w' symbol should be at right side)" echo "שרה" echo
echo "# sixel graphics"
printf '\eP0;0;0q"1;1;64;64#0;2;0;0;0#1;2;100;100;100#1{wo_!11?@FN^!34^NB
@?ow{$#0?BFN^!11}wo!34?o{}^NFB-#1!5}{o!12?BF!25~NB@??ow{!6~$#0!5?
@BN!12~{w_!25?_o{}~~NFB-#1!10~}w_!12?@BN!15^NFB@?_w{}!10$#0!10?@F^!12~}
{o_!15?ow{}^FB@-#1!14}{o!11?@BF!7~FB??ow}!15$#0!14?@BN^!11}{w!7?_
w{~~NF@-#1!18~}{wo!11?_rFB@??ow}!20$#0!18?@BFN!11^K_w{}~~NF@-#1!23~M!4?
_oWMF@!6?BN!21~$#0!23?p!4~Nfpw}!6{o_-#1!18^NB@?_ow{}wo!12?@BFN!17$#0!
18?o{}^NFB@?FN!12}{wo-#1!13^NB@??_w{}!9}{w!12?BFN!12~$#0!13?_o{}~~F
B@!9?@BF!12~{wo_-#1!8~NFB@?_w{}!19{wo_!11?@BN^!8$#0!8?_ow{}~^FB@!19?BFN
!11~}{o_-#1!4~NB@?_ow{!28}{o_!12?BF^!4$#0!4?o{}^NFB!28?@BN^!12{w-#1
NB@???GM!38NMG!13?@BN$#0?KMNNNF@!38?@F!13NMK-\e\'
```
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In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, major newspapers are giving former President Donald Trump’s federal criminal indictment for alleged crimes related to the January 6 insurrection a fraction of the coverage they gave former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email se...
Report about the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post —
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26 Articles in the week following Smith's indictment of Trump for his attempted coup
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100 Articles — nearly 4 times as many — that mentioned Clinton’s server in the week after then-FBI Director James Comey’s notorious October 28, 2016, letter on new developments in that probe--
The US media has learned nothing and is doing a disservice to American voters.
Magats in NB
Nothing much to say other than I had to drive down PCH today and it would have been a better idea to drive around back bay. So many deplorable magats waving their stupid flags, driving in circles. I showed my support by yelling "We love proven rapists who are convicted felons!!" at them when stopped. It's just so embarrassing seeing these anti-democratic, anti-Constitution morons in my city/county/state/country.
Any keyword filters available that work. Userscript or extension.
The only one I've found is this one, but it doesn't work. It only triggers if I open the keyword interface and save it after every page load. I don't know enough to fix it.
Ryan Garcia failed to make weight ahead Saturday's fight against Devin Haney. And while the boxing match will go on, Haney is now $1.5 million richer.
I have the feeling tomorrow won't end well for Garcia.
Directions on life
Any advice for a regular smart 27 year old youngster, who has chronically underachieved and is motivated to turn their life around. They have a couple years of JC completed, and has no idea what path to take, or really what paths exist.
EDIT: OK, I see I gave slim pickins here. It's not me, it's my neighbor's kid. I've known his parents since before he was born. He's a super smart kid, but like a lot of smart kids, he got kind of jaded about...well, everything. I was visiting the other day and he asked me for advice, and my retired ass has nothing. Any relevant personal experience I may have, became dated years ago.
He's good at just about all subjects. His longest lifelong hobby has been video games. He took a few programming classes and liked it, but the thought of doing it full time as a career would quickly become torture.
He's kind of half-assed things and just realized he needs to get his shit straight. He was thinking something like finance, just numbers. Something solid that's just a career direction. He is going back to school, well most likely he is, but he needs an idea of what path to take. Most of his friends are unemployed/underemployed with computer degrees.
India is sending back thousands of Myanmar refugees, whom they blame for ethnic violence erupting in Manipur state.
Nobody seems to be talking about the continuing genocide of Rohingya in Myanmar nor India's heartless and illegal current actions.
>“Refoulement is against international human rights law, regardless of if you’ve signed the refugee convention" - John Quinley III, director of international rights group
Kim Stanley Robinson
I read Kim's Mars trilogy years ago and liked it. I decided to pick up The Ministry of the Future a couple days ago. It's very different, and without any spoilers, I have to say it's made me hate humanity even more than I already did. If you haven't read it, it's a near-future climate disaster book. Well written, interesting structure, and just pissing me off. I'm about halfway through it, so maybe it'll swing the other way in the second half.
Borderlands (2024) Official Trailer - Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black
Well this looks more awful than I could have imagined. Incredibly shitty casting.
Data is consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control and scapegoat workers.
Nothing we all didn't know.
How to pull rocks out of pipe in the ground?
My mom has a hole in the ground that she puts her clothes drying hanger in. Like this. The hole in the ground is a 2" or so pipe, set in concrete. The pipe has filled with gravel. Anyone have a tip on getting the rocks out? I can only get so many out using my fingers and then trying to use a set of chopsticks.
Fury vs Ngannou, who do you have?
I put a little on Ngannou, but I think Fury will just toy with him before finishing Ngannou off. Heavyweights though, you never know.
At least 200 Israelis have been killed and 740 wounded, according to reports from media and health officials. Gaza health officials say nearly 200 Palestinians have been killed with more than 1,600 wounded.
This seems far more serious than the typical lobbing explosives at each other in which Hamas and Israel habitually partake.
Effect of a gravity assist on person, or whatever, in spaceship
OK, this is dumb, but it's gone through my head a couple times. I've seen a few science fiction movies and shows where the people in the spaceship use a gravity assist and lean into the turns like they're driving NASCAR or riding a roller coaster.
I think they wouldn't feel the acceleration (vector change) because gravity is doing the acceleration on every molecule and there would be nothing to lean against. I'm often wrong though. Someone smarter than I am have some insight?
EDIT: For what it's worth, I guess I shouldn't have used the Expanse clip as it upset some people. I just used it for an example of what I was asking. The question is this: Under little or no thrusters, would you feel a gravity assist? Even a radical one that changes your direction 90 degrees and greatly increases your velocity?
Canelo Alvarez defended the super middleweight undisputed title with a clear victory over Jermell Charlo.
Have to give respect for Charlo coming up 14 pounds. The real ones are wiling to take those chances. Canelo is a brick.
Is Paddy Pimblett vs. Tony Ferguson cynical booking from the UFC, or just the right fight? Brendan Schaub has thoughts.
I would love to see Ferguson take the win. It would be hilarious to me.
Taking place over three days, the Airshow delivers an action-packed lineup of events, from live music festivals on the beach and VIP offerings, to over-the-water aerobatic demonstrations from the world’s best display teams – all backed by Southern California’s most iconic beachfront destination, Hun
If anyone else freaked out about the jets doing low flyby's today. It's that time again.