Re: curl -fsSL someurl | sh
You know, you could inspect someurl
That's what the AI is for!
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Let's see if anyone hardcode vi fan manages to come up with an explanation why <ESC>:q! is intuitive and straight forward ;)
I was going to make a TECO joke, comparing that to 'ex$$' but I suddenly realized to my horror that TECO really is more intuitive. (at least to exit)
Edit: ( I guess I should add that the '$' is what TECO displays for '<ESC>' )
While we will of course "lose" those businesses to the US stock exchanges in the short term, when the bubble bursts on the hugely overvalued tech companies in the US then presumably there will be screamed questions at the regulators that enabled losing hundreds of billions.
No, here in the US we've been pretty thoroughly conditioned to believe that any corporate regulation is pure evil, and any consequences to our personal financial status should be blamed on whichever politician of the other party has had his name in the news most recently.
"BTW: Green Card Lottery was not the first SPAM I encountered on UseNet, "
Dave Rhodes -- 'Bizman Dave, the modem slave' -- predated C & S by a considerable amount, in my fallible memory. I vaguely think that Rhodes may have started out on Fidonet, but I'm certain he was shitting on Usenet before the lawyers.
I've only recently switched from Opera v 12, because my workplace moved almost entirely to Microsoft for email, and I can't get Opera to talk successfully to Microsoft's smtp server. (Evolution does, with a plugin). It's painful. I still keep Opera running on one screen for the excellent search capability, and automatic sorting intelligently by date (on disk).
" (But no more than a few. 3 seconds is plenty to total a CD/DVD via an impressive lightning show. So not much more than this to avoid a conflagration.)"
So, you're saying that shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three?
I suppose five is right out.
Am I the only person who was completely underwhelmed? I was expecting something like a more affordable version of the Optimus Maximus keyboard from fifteen years(!) ago with individual OLEDs in the keycaps, letting you dynamically update and indicate their functionality. That idea had a lot of potential, regardless of how it was implemented. (*)
Interestingly, YouTube gave me a suggestion after I watched the finalmouse thing, and showed me this: Flux Keyboard - The Keyboard Reinvented -- which looks to be exactly a relatively inexpensive implementation of the best ideas of the Optimus and the finalmouse Enterprise. (Pre orders from their website show $450 USD). Do a search on YouTube for "flux keyboard" and they have a direct comparison with the Enterprise keyboard as well. I really really want one; maybe even enough to pre-order.
So that means you need to know things even when you don't need to know them. You need to know them not because you need to know them but because you need to know whether or not you need to know. If you don't need to know, you still need to know so that you know that there is no need to know.
You are Kurt Gödel, and I claim my five pounds.
"This column is an expansive exercise in rephrasing "garbage in; garbage out"."
I think of the chatbots as being 'Electric Wikipedia'. (with all that implies). Maybe we really should feed a couple of them into each other, and let them dissolve into a singularity of editor wars, while the rest of us move on to the next shiny. Quantum, I guess.
"Who, on their right mind, would take offense of a nickname from a time before they appeared, therefore, obviously not aimed at them ?"
Maybe a woman who doesn't like the implication that a random woman can be blamed for any and every problem, and people accept that as a good tech support response?
Maybe they plan to convert it all to condos. Sell at ridiculous prices to the currently wealthy and desperate to live in Silicon Valley, soak them for monthly fees as well, and hit them up for insane assessments when the buildings need maintenance. Then when the inevitable crash comes, spin off the Residential Group into a strategic bankruptcy and walk away.
Ain't that America?
More and more I get the feeling that yes, indeed, he is deliberately trying to completely destroy Twitter - nothing else makes sense to explain his behavior. The only thing I can think of as a reason is if he expects to sue the previous directors by claiming that they sold him a broken company that couldn't survive.
For that to make sense though, he must not realize he's doing it all in public and we can see it.
Mysteries of the rich and their assholery, I guess.
Probably dumb question, but how do you see the keyboard to type, if you're using a laptop? Presumably you could make it semi-transparent for an on-screen keyboard in a touch environment, but I'm not certain you want that much transparency for general use.
Nice to see this old idea implemented, though, and I'll be interested to see if it works out.
" this should be great but it requires a whole new operating system design."
Multics did it 50 years ago. It's a different way of looking at things, but very workable.
Multics and an emulator to run it are freely available, for anyone interested:
https://multics-wiki.swenson.org/index.php/Main_Page