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NostraDavid

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  • The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code

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  • Out of all the things I've done in vim, I've never opened a tab. I didn't even know that was a thing, and I've been using it off and on since... 2009? (increasingly so over the years).

  • The implication of that

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  • From what I've gathered, a married man is more attractive to women. I don't know just about his wife though.

  • Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages

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  • Just don't go as extreme as trying to de-gender languages, like Spanish, which is a gendered language (as are several others):

    There is no latinx, only latina and latino. Whoever uses latinx unironically can fuck right off, for being an ignorance cringelord.

  • Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages

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  • watching sexuality become nothing but marketing bait.

    This is what I figured what would happen once people started pushing for more explicit sexuality acceptance. This is the bed they made.

    Trust us and buy our shit.

    This is also due to people inside said corporations pushing for this shit due to ideological reasons.

    *some LGBT:* Give us the positive attention and validation that we crave! *Large Corporations, seeing opportunities:* OK *some LGBT:* No, not like that!

    Again, welcome to their bed.

  • Iranians form human chains at bridges and power plants

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    1. Get all the Pro-Iranian-Government people right on top of important infra
    2. USA blows them all up
    3. ????
    4. PROFIT!?
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  • Make it three downvotes, because this thread is about least logical fears.

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  • Mad cow disease is also caused by prions, which is why the cow's body gets destroyed, not just buried.

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  • Swimming pool drains.

    Not irrational; I've seen a crab get sucked through a tiny slit into an underwater pipe, shell and all. There's YT footage I won't post to save your sanity.

    Delta P (difference is pressure) can be absolutely terrifying.

  • What are some programs/tools/packages that you can't live without?

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  • Some recommendations:

    • baobab -> QDirStat
    • qalculate -> speedcrunch
    • ncdu -> gdu ("I am you, but faster")

    I prefer lsd to ls or eza/exa (RIP exa).

  • What are some programs/tools/packages that you can't live without?

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  • Some applications I've not seen yet:

    Terminal

    https://ntorga.com/gzip-bzip2-xz-zstd-7z-brotli-or-lz4/

    • lz4 - fastest compression/decompression (several GB/s); compression is good, but not amazing; very little CPU usage
    • zstd - very fast compression, fast decompression (few GB/s compression; ~600MB/s for decompression; better or equal compression compared to zip, depending on level)
    • cloc <folder> - gets lines of code for a project/folder
    • gdu <optional location> - like ncdu, but faster (written in go) - think TreeSize/WinDirStat for the terminal
    • stat <file> - built-in application to show the modified, created, etc stats for a file.
    • hyperfine - benchmark for binaries - run this in front of a command to have it run multiple times, and show some statistics.
    • jpegli - great to recompress JPEG files into smaller filesizes, with only very few/minor visual effects.
    • just - used with a Justfile in a project so I can run just to see the commands, or run just test, just clean, just ... to run project-specific commands.
    • msedit - ye olde edit.com, reborn! Feels a little bit cursed to use an MS text editor on the terminal, but it's better for beginners than nano or micro or whatever.
    • oxipng - lossless png compression
    • pngquant - lossy png compression (it forces the file to use a palette of n colors, which reduces the colors used, so it will affect your files, unlike oxipng.
    • upx - compress binary files (indeed - executables only)
    • visidata - analyses csv files, and shows some stats. Like Data Wrangler for the terminal
    • oxfmt - think "oxidized prettier" (file formatter for programmers)

    GUIs

    • Whatpulse - I've been tracking my keypresses since 2005. not a terminal application, unlike the rest.
    • fsearch - Linux alternative to Everything by Voidtools. It will be a little bit different, but it does the job. mlocate package, with the sudo updatedb and locate commands, if you prefer the terminal
    • keepassxc - password manager
    • speedcrunch - best GUI calculator, IMO. Just a bar for input, and a bunch of stored results above it. Use the ans variable to use the previous answer in the current calculation, like ans*2 to multiply the previous answer. Or use variables, like x=5, y=2, x+y: 7.

  • What are some programs/tools/packages that you can't live without?

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  • There's also zigfetch, but that doesn't have a Nix logo :/

  • crime is a spook

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  • That's the point of government: the state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force.

    That's from "Politics as a Vocation" by Max Weber. It's also why the population needs to beat back if that violence isn't legitimate (i.e. it's abusing the population in the first place).

  • Data centers are so hot their ‘heat island’ effect is raising temperatures up to 6 miles away

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  • Debian Project Leader Addresses New Age Verification Laws

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  • You extend your right arm horizontally in front of you.

    Uh oh...

    You rest your left hand, palm down, on top of your right arm, next to your antecubital fossa (the opposite side of the elbow).

    Oh, phew! I thought this was going to get dark for a second.

  • Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid?

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  • College degrees just ensure we're specialized.

    Or becoming better just ensures you get more work done, and thus more work shoved onto your plate.

    I know a guy who was smart enough to go to University, but went to a basic college instead (or rather, a Dutch equivalent). "I don't want to do all that" is his defence in not going to Uni.

  • Reddit no longer the front page of the internet

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  • Facebook is just white-hair containment.

  • Reddit no longer the front page of the internet

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  • extreme views on women

    So he has a hot take that men and women might be biologically different, or what?

  • Reddit no longer the front page of the internet

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  • Initially there were no subs, then the main page got hidden behind /r/all and people were allowed to create their own subs, and the frontpage got replaced with whatever you subbed to.

    Those were the good times, when the site was small enough that people helped a kid out to do his homework.

  • Reddit no longer the front page of the internet

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