catastrophicblues

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Just moved to Linux: a follow up

I recently made a post discussing my move to Linux on Fedora, and it’s been going great. But today I think I have now become truly part of this community. I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install. Learned my lesson with modifying the bootloader without first doing thorough investigation lol....

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Borked your bootloader already? You’re a true Linux user lol. You’ll eventually learn to not do that (and back up regularly).

Good choice with Fedora! I love dnf and the choices Fedora makes overall.

What are your favorite fonts for technical reports?

I work at a consulting engineering firm and write a lot of reports that are read by the public. I have an opportunity to recommend a different font for all of our written documents and am looking for something more modern/fresh than Times New Roman. Also open to recommendations for purpose specific communities about...

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CMU Serif is always a good choice imo.

Times, which I think NeurIPS uses, is pretty solid.

Latin Modern Roman is another good one, used by TMLR.

IBM Plex just looks so nice too.

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I like Aptos more than Calibri, but I wish they also had a better Serif typeface than Cambria.

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How much Rust do I need to know to use Tauri?

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Huh, that’s neat. From their docs it does seem like aside from some scaffolding, I shouldn’t need to write much Rust.

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It do be the holiday season.

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Changed my sleep schedule to 6pm-2am. I get to be up at night while making it to morning meetings.

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Yeah, on its own this is a good feature and I don’t have to write my own version based on the GDPR data request.

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I have a Roomba j7+ and I love it. I also have a Braava Jet M6, so mopping is taken care of too. The mopping is slow, but it’s quiet and it’s not like I have to wait for it.

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It’s more about getting the portafilter hot too.

As for the on button, I use a SwitchBot Bot.

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Curiosity, followed by realizing how good it is for development.

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I’ll be getting my PhD in the Spring! Hopefully I’ll have a job lined up before graduating.

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Computer Science! My work is on applied machine learning for software analytics.

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Can someone tell me the recent hype about immutable distros? What exactly is the immutable part, and why is it attractive?

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Interesting. Sounds like DevOps folks would love it. Maybe I’ll look into it more. Thanks!

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I’m a bit rusty on this, but I think you’d need to split your Sass/SCSS/etc before Webpack will perform tree-shaking or allow lazy-loading. I don’t think many devs wrote it that way: personally, I like my mobile rules beside my desktop ones, since my styling is component-wise.

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I’ve found it’s a bit overrated honestly. Usually, I also need the commands before and after something, so I use history | grep -B N cmd instead

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Yeah, quite frankly I watch so much that it’s just worth it. I don’t use other streaming services, so it’s fine for me.

What are the recommended scripting languages for complex shell scripts beyond bash?

I’ve been struggling with a rather complex shell script, and it’s becoming apparent that Bash might not be the best choice for this particular task. While I usually gravitate towards statically typed languages like Go or Rust, I’ve noticed that many people recommend alternative languages such as Lua or Python for scripting...

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I’m writing my own: github.com/yrahul3910/pysh

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zx looks super interesting! I’m building something very similar, except using Python as the language instead of JS: github.com/yrahul3910/pysh

I’ll try out zx though, it looks cool, although I’d be worried about Google ditching it in the future.

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I think you’d like the alternatives that mix languages with Shell. See Google’s zx or (shameless plug) my pysh for instance.

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What do you like about fish? Have you tried zsh? I’m in the market for a new shell too.

Just realized I can just use "..." to go back two directories! Is this a zsh feature?

I accidentally discovered that both “cd …” and “…” work, and moreover, I can add more dots to go back further! I’m using zsh on iTerm2 on macOS. I’m pretty sure this isn’t a cd feature. Is this specific to zsh or iTerm2? Are there other cool features I just never knew existed??...

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Really? Doesn’t seem to work when I use bash:


<span style="color:#323232;">bash-3.2$ cd a/b/c/d/e
</span><span style="color:#323232;">bash-3.2$ ...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">bash: ...: command not found
</span><span style="color:#323232;">bash-3.2$ cd ...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">bash: cd: ...: No such file or directory
</span>
catastrophicblues,

Yup, that’s what I’ve always understood. Seems like this is zsh-specific, since using the default Terminal app with zsh also works. Do you know if other shells (fish, csh, etc.) support this syntactic sugar? Anything else zsh has that I should know?

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Wait what??? That’s amazing! I’m learning so much.

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I totally forgot! Makes sense that the implementation is shell-specific.

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I’ve always thought it was funny how *nix lets you name things in a way that makes it miserable for others lol. I think I had a directory named - because of a mkdir syntax error.

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Oooh I’m stealing these aliases! Odd that I never wondered whether you could have an alias be symbols.

Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights?

I usually play games on “normal” difficulty these days, for a balanced challenge. However, I don’t particularly enjoy boss fights, or at least I don’t enjoy the extra challenge associated with them. Was thinking it would be nice if games had a separate setting so I could just set boss fights to “easy”, while not...

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Zelda games have a neat scaling mechanism. If an idiot like me could beat the final boss in a couple tries, anyone can. And it’s super fun too.

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That last sentence is so true. I love FOSS and tech, but there are cases where proprietary software is better, and that’s okay. Let’s be objective, not an echo chamber.

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Yeah luckily Amazon is good about mess-ups that are one-time like this. Was the cost because you were pushing to, or retrieving from Glacier?

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Yeah I agree I don’t find alignment very useful. It’s more work for dubious benefit, and god forbid you change one of the lines.

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What do you recommend instead?

Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced (lore.kernel.org)

I’ve said this previously, and I’ll say it again: we’re severely under-resourced. Not just XFS, the whole fsdevel community. As a developer and later a maintainer, I’ve learnt the hard way that there is a very large amount of non-coding work is necessary to build a good filesystem. There’s enough not-really-coding work...

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This so so much. I want to contribute. The only time I ever have are when the barrier to getting setup and finding things I can do are low.

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For me it’s just too much political stuff. On the other hand, if I block some keywords, I might only be left with memes and shitposts.

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That bit made me cringe. You go to the file, and can download using the Raw button or using wget. It’s not hard, it’s ignorance.

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Also be wary about sharing confidential code. At work I don’t use ChatGPT unless it’s for extremely general questions.

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It’s contextual. My understanding is that in British English, “going to uni” is equivalent to the American English “going to college”. At least in the US, the word college colloquially refers to undergrad, though a lot of colleges do offer postgraduate programs.

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Keep us updated!

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Seriously that would be great lol. At least it would be a funny reference.

Celebrating A true Canadian hero (lemmy.ca)

40 years ago today Terry Fox, a 21 year old Canadian who lost a leg to cancer, began an east to west cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. He ran the equivalent of a full marathon every day and made it to 145 days and 5,373km before he was forced to stop and he lost his battle with cancer.

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An absolute legend. I remember being taught his story in school and thinking how cool the whole thing (except the cancer) was. The Terry Fox Run is about celebrating him and overcoming major hurdles.

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Also the constant outcries from vegans and environmentalists…like we get it, the world is on fire. You’re not the first to tell me that and there’s little I can do about it. It’s so exhausting.

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You make a good point. I guess the outrage was more about scanning at all, though I suppose that’s not on Apple.

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James Hoffmann - for anything about making great coffee at home

The Food Theorists - Interesting content about food, especially in their older videos

Doctor Mike - entertaining but useful medical information

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True, but when done in jest I think distro wars are fine. The charm is that each distro has stuff you’ll like and dislike.

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Terminal fan here (though I’m on Mac). GUIs, in an attempt to contain all the features of a CLI program while being user friendly, make compromises on simplicity. It’s difficult to remember the combination of buttons to click to get what you want. For CLI programs, you have man and —help to figure it out. Of course there’s the pipes and automation aspects of it too.

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Hmm that makes sense. I’m unfortunately all in on Apple’s ecosystem, since Apple Music links to iTunes Store, where I can buy music I like from my Recently Added list. And ever so often, I’ll get a GDPR request and run my own version of Replay that doesn’t have numbers rounded.

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