𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆
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19·13 days agoHaving a physical disability and doing anything except dying quietly, at least in the United States.
How many things are you learning per day as an adult. As a kid in school, how many subjects were you learning at the same time. Just saying structured multitasking is something most of us stop doing.
1·13 days agoI use
alias man='batman --pager="less -RF"for colorized manpages on my workstation, but I’ll save this for sure. It might be handy on smaller embedded systems.I wonder why colorizing manpages like this is not default in most distros. That seems like an obvious thing to configure for end user’s quality of life.
Why are you confrontational? I’m just casually tossing out ideas and learning. Of course I understand what you are saying. However, busybox covers the core of a POSIX system and with the size constraints, it is likely standardising something like this. On Gentoo, such a change might be more straight forward instead of some sloppy hack with a wrapper.
I imagine you must be good at memorizing a lot of information. I am not. I am good at abstraction and must explore in abstraction to understand heuristically. I understand heuristic connections better than most people. Neither method is better or worse. Being toxic about interchanges of information is useless nonsense. I know far more than I let on, but I’m well aware that I am a jack of all trades and expert of none. All the projects don’t matter relative to those that are used the most. If most projects can be colorized, it will motivate others to fall in line or prompt rewrites assuming such a change was popular. Colorized manpages and help pages should be standard and should have been a decade ago. No one is using an IDE without syntax highlighting. The terminal is an extension of the abstracted language of Linux. Without universal syntax highlighting for new users in these spaces, Linux is presenting an outdated language format ripe for deprecation. These details have long term consequences.
I wonder if Busybox or similar rewrites contain standardization that could be leveraged.
I don’t mind the idea of a wrapper it is just that most of the time, I’m looking at the last command, backspacing and then adding
--help. After thinking about it, I will likely go the wrapper route, but add arguments that use the last command in terminal history automatically so that typinghelp-with no args runs a--helpflag on that last command,2::5would add additional flags or arguments from the last command before--helpandhelp-with any other args calls those instead of using history.
At this point, someone has to have already made a prettier shell or terminal that is configured like this by default. Hideous 1950s monocolor --help output can’t be a novel issue in 2025.
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There has to be a hook somewhere for every command that executes. I’m not sure, but something in the chain after using
set -xthen running any terminal command likely is on the right path to doing this. (If you tryset -x, you can turn it off withset +x).set -ooptions are another I’m not very familiar with but might be related.
I do this all the time too. The new standard for polite calling anyone is to initiate the conversation if the line goes live as far as I am concerned. Never say anything for an unknown caller, and expect to get dropped or hung up on even if you are legitimate. If you’re unwilling to call me twice or thrice, you didn’t need to call me in the first place.
Please hit on me
Magical memories like realistic dreams.
It could be. Or you could use it to walk away with something more if you’re clever about it. If you party it up, I’ll let you keep the Epicurean memories
I don’t know money penny. Maybe a bond; just a bond
Republican
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Reveal your alchemy!
The world is a poor pastiche of your epicurean indulgences…
I have a mental color wheel and go much further than most.
I painted cars for nearly a decade. I intuitively know how various color hues are made. For instance, there are only two kinds of black. The most common is made from carbon and it is a yellow base. It will always tint a color towards yellow when added to any other base. Then there is the much more rare purple based black. Some color mixing systems do not even have a purple based black and it in impossible to hit some color matches as a result. Some special edition Harley Davidsons are too dark to hit with my old PPG mixing system. I usually kept a bit of purple black from BASF for this purpose.
Another color that would blow your mind is this one white (that is used on Toyotas IIRC). It was so bright of a white that, when I first encountered it, I tried just using my brightest white base because in my mind, there was no way that tinting was going to produce a brighter white. Almost all whites go one of three directions in tint. They are all either yellow - most common, blue - maybe 2/5ths of white cars, or red - very rare at maybe around 1 in 20 and extremely subtle. All of these are very subtle to notice but to a painter they are plainly obvious.
So this one Toyota white looked like I sprayed a blotch of grey primer even after using my brightest white. I was in trouble because a small panel job might turn into a whole side of a car to blend out a color difference like that in ways no one will see. I finally looked at the color formula from the color code and mixed an approximation of it. The formula involved a mix of odd colors, but the result was actually brighter pure white and that blew my mind. It did not tint in any tone or go darker at all but actually went brighter.
I have some of the best color vision of any other painters I encountered. This is actually how I ran my paint business. When you mix paints there is a minimum amount you’re supposed to mix to make it right. It is really about the minimum amount that can be measured and how much of the smallest amount of a color is involved. So if the formula has 1% of this one red, and the minimum I can dispense is 1 gram, I must mix 100 grams of paint in total. I may only need 50 grams, but industry standard is that ai mix 100 regardless and have to use or toss it. I don’t need to use formulas like this. I can look up the base ingredients and make the colors from scratch in smaller quantity. I also kept around 10 bottles of common base colors that I would mix together. So if I painted a silver car and had some color left over, I would put that in my silvers bottle. Then on my next job with a silver car, I would take my left over silvers bottle tint it a little bit and spray that just over my primer over the repair. Then I would mix a very tiny amount of the proper silver from scratch and use this to blend out the actual final color coat. I did things like dilute the small amounts of colors I needed in special ways like by combining it with clear binder, solvent, or one of the base colors in the formula I was replicating. This gave me access to a smaller amount than the 1 gram of red.
Painters must tint the formula for any color they mix anyways. As cars age, the color degrades for many reasons. So even when making the minimum formula, it is just a baseline for tinting. I simply flipped this paradigm and tinted everything while only using the formula as a reference. This means I spent far less on paint per job, and I could approach smaller repairs more cheaply than most people doing automotive paint. I also have hacker skills with clear coat application that make smaller repairs possible.
“scientists say…”
They aren’t some unified entity. They don’t even agree amongst themselves on most things if one digs deep enough. While there is some interpretation of the data involved, most people that use the phrase “Scientists say…” are essentially saying “Objective observations done by several of the smartest humans have been argued over by several of their rivals resulting in…”
Like, we should start calling them something like Observational Data Warriors ™ /s to put perspective on the magnitude of information and depth involved. You can have an opinion but you are a coward of no relevant value if you are not trained for battle and fighting on the front lines. So whatever nonsense you have to say results in you looking like a clown of no note.
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