“Trignometry” might be my favorite typo.

somewhat logical, but entirely in practice verb-noun command structure.

That’s supposed to be “impractical”, not “in practice”, for others reading along.

For example, the “proper” command to list a directory is: Get-ChildItem
The “proper” command to fetch a webpage is: Invoke-WebRequest https://example.com/

In these particular cases, they do have aliases defined, so you can use ls, dir and curl instead, but …yeah, that’s still generally what the command names are like.

It’s partially more verbose than C#, which is one of the most verbose programming languages out there. I genuinely feel like this kind of defeats the point of having a scripting language in the first place, when it isn’t succinct.
Like, you’re hardly going to use it interactively, because it is so verbose, so you won’t know the commands very well. Which means, if you go to write a script with Powershell, you’ll need to look up how to do everything just as much as with a full-fledged programming language. And I do typically prefer the better tooling of a full-fledged programming language…

I’ve been trying to basically build a library that helps you put together a distribution archive.
And my initial plan for the API looked something like this:

Distribution::new("my-program")
    .dir("assets")
    .file("favicon.png", |path| build_favicon(path));  // "|path| ..." is a lambda function that gets the target path passed in

So, it would allow you to define the file structure, and for the parts that actually need to be built, you’d provide a lambda function, which it would automatically run or not, depending on whether the inputs changed.

Right, inputs, what are those? I kind of need my user to tell me. So, I decided to implement the caching as a separate API, which you would call on your own when you get called by the lambda function.

Then I realized, I kind of don’t need the lambda function then. I could just construct file paths and then my user calls their build_favicon(...) function or similar on their own.

There is just one crucial problem with that. This is what the file API in the stdlib looks like:

PathBuf::new("my-program")
    .join("assets")
    .join("favicon.png");

I might not have built anything, really. 🫠

Pretty sure the green area is supposed to be the overlap of (1) and (2). 🙃

So, it’s people who know what both a Venn and a Euler diagram are, but don’t necessarily know the difference. One could argue that if you’re in (1) and/or (2), you could reliably answer a quiz question correctly for what a Venn and/or Euler diagram is, therefore you wouldn’t confuse the two.

So, maybe (3) could expand down like an hourglass, so that part of it is on the overlap and part of it is outside of both (1) and (2)…

Was expecting Euler diagrams in this…

Starting to sound a lot like a self-fulfilling prophecy, that companies and investors get cautious and pull out their money, which is what makes the bubble burst.

But well, for good reason. You wouldn’t need to be particularly concerned about everyone else pulling out, if there was a clear return on investment, if you knew more money to come out of your invested money.

Hmm, you should be able to set a custom command for it to run before suspend like this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/526290

And apparently, you can tell light-locker to lock immediately with light-locker-command --lock: https://manpages.debian.org/buster/light-locker/light-locker-command.1.en.html

I guess, you might want to try out, if it works at all, before you start editing files. If it works with this, then I’d expect it work when you put it in into the file, too:

light-locker-command --lock && systemctl suspend

I’m guessing, it’s this species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemaris_thysbe

(Apparently, this species is also referred to as “hummingbird moth”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_hawk-moth )

That’s a bug in web Outlook. You can work around it by deleting cookies from Outlook before logging in. On Firefox, I always press Ctrl+Shift+H, search for “outlook” and then right-click on an entry → Forget About This Site.

Don’t ask me why it takes so long for them to fix it…

I split my notes/todos into multiple files, but I wrote a small program which basically just creates a file with a randomized name in a flat directory and then opens it in my default editor.
I just want to be able to start typing right away without worrying where to put the note or what to title it or whatever. Like, I will put a title on it and include some keywords to help me find things again, but I can do that later when I don’t need to noting things down…

I have made the first-hand experience of genuinely nothing being in reach to hold onto, but the reason I couldn’t reach anything was that everyone was standing so densely packed, that there was really no way you could possibly fall over anyways.

I can also recommend not having anxiety in that situation.

Well, they supported this syntax in the past. At some point they broke it.

For sure, they didn’t bother fixing it, because only more knowledgable people used this. But yeah, still valid to complain about it then…

I find it so bizarre, too. I’ve been using quite a similar autosuggestion feature as part of Fish shell for a few years now. But when an LLM keeps spewing words at me, that’s a whole different shtick. It genuinely just inhibits my thinking, which is a feeling I never had with Fish.

I guess, one difference is that Fish uses real intelligence, a.k.a. my shell history. If it has a suggestion, the chance is high that it’s actually what I want to do or close to it. And it also shuts the hell up when there’s no good suggestion. I don’t have to be constantly vigilant that what it suggests might be complete garbage.

And the other difference is probably that it’s *my* intelligence, *my* shell history. I will have thunk the thoughts before which lead to the command it suggests, which brings the brain load much further down again.
Occasionally, it’ll suggest something where I have no recollection of having run that command before, but knowing that I have, is still really useful and this only happens for niche commands anyways. Most of the suggestions are just stuff which I’ve run a few minutes ago or last week or such, where I won’t have to think about it.

I guess, it probably also helps that commands have simple formatting, with only a single line and you can mostly read the flags in any order…

Hmm, is it really that little? The stats look devastating, like e.g. 3 grams per 100 grams, but mushrooms also consist out of 90+ grams of water.

For example, the button mushroom has:
100 g total - 91.8 g water - 1.7 g fiber = 6.5g nutrients
2.89 g protein / 6.5 g nutrients = 44.4% protein

Comparing that to e.g. canned black beans:
100 g total - 70.8 g water - 6.69 g fiber = 22.51 g nutrients
6.91 g protein / 22.51 g nutrients = 30.9% protein

That is kind of funny, since there is genuinely a decent chance that someone who’s unwell is also obese or unfit or old…

Firefox has a built-in translation feature now, so you might not need TWP.

On a definitely related note, I’ve recently been thinking it’s wild how we build foot paths out of rocks and then put on rubber socks for actually walking on them.

In other words, asphalt is a scam by Big Foot to sell more shoes.

I imagine, they can still get inflamed gums or similar, if something gets stuck in there…

I believe, you have to take turns pushing down individual teeth. By random chance, it will close the mouth when you do that. So, you lose when you get bitten.

I feel like it’s just capitalism doing a capitalism. People are self-conscious about their skin, so you can sell them all kinds of crap.
Even a basic washcloth does a decent job with exfoliating, if you use it regularly. Rub your face dry with a scruffy towel, if you need more than that.

But of course, there’s hardly any money to be made with reasonably priced products, so you won’t see TV ads for them.