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Here's my favorite tip: If you use bash, you can write bash on your prompt (duh). But this is one of the biggest reasons I stick with bash everywhere, as I am quite comfortable and experienced in bash and sometimes it's just easier to write things like `for i in *.mp3; do ffmpeg -i $i ...` etc. If it's re-usable, I write it to a bash script later.

That's vaccously true as you said isn't it? I write fish on my shell and then I can save it as a fish script. Worth noting that bash is much more portable and available by default, but if I'm going for portability I go straight to /bin/sh

Fair point, but for scripting I don't feel fish (or zsh) offer an advantage big enough to bother learning that language with their rather narrow scope. But bash it's good to anyways know, you don't really get around it either. Larger/more complex scripts I write in other languages (depending on domain I and other requirements I guess). It's also not that I daily write those scripts on my shell, so I also think that even if I learned fish or zsh, I would have to look up things again every time I need to write something again.

I've installed "More Better Ctrl-W" for Chromium, and mapped Ctrl-W to do nothing, and Ctrl-D to close the current tab

But how am I supposed to create or edit a bookmark?

You're not alone, I heavily rely on vi mode and often struggle if I'm on someone else's machine and can't use it. I always wonder how you're supposed to work without it but I never dare to ask

`set -o vi` is quickly typed in anger...

Sad state of things. He did it because he was sick? That's close to claiming his dog ate the original quotes so he had to make some up.

Well, Ars Technica is already for quite some time on my ignore list, and this further solidifies its place there.


I think that there's a potential different story with this. He felt that he had no option but to do work, even though he was so sick that he failed at the job. What's up with that? How insecure and pressured is his employment?

If it's not true then the error is on him. But it seems plausibly bad to me as an outside observer of US employment and healthcare customs. And the precarity of journalism nowadays. It is a sad state of things, as in it could be more a systemic than individual failure.


Circumstances can help explain, but never excuse unethical behavior


Systems can make such failures inevitable. The language of "blame" vs. "excuse" is not the most relevant.


Are you saying unethical behavior is not a choice but forced by the system? That it would be unreasonable to expect people to behave ethically in situation were the system is set up in a way that does not reward ethical behavior? That lying and cheating can always be excused because if people didn't, they would endager their societal status?


No. That's a wild gallop off in a pointless direction using the same irrelevant language.


Isn't Ars agreeing with you here though? It's not excusable and they fired him even after the apology.


It compiles and sends bytecode to the server, no? I'm quite sure the server at least does not run a plain interpreter, and I know for sure you build a graph there. That's why you can also use it with other languages (Saw a clojure example I think I wanted to give a try)


I do not think this is an unpopular opinion at all. In fact, it's one of the most popular ones I believe.


>The game is not playable from start to finish. You can play deathmatch and other odd modes.


Why bring politics into this discussion?

Edit: that person (or bot) has almost exclusively posted on this website about the current US president. I think it's a waste engaging and I already regret my comment here


This is clearly a bot or a troll.


The house in Zurich I live in was initially built something like in the 12th century, but the floor I reside on was added in the 17th century. This is the case for most houses in the old town. So this is going on for a while.


31 cats from Ankara, Turkey, in this study. They point it out themselves in the "Limitation" section of the paper. Not sure what to think of it


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