Alternatively, use your shell however you want. And which isn’t POSIX so I wouldn’t use that in a shell script you intend to share.

I don’t really find it infuriating and I don’t think that makes me part of a problem. Self diagnosis can sometimes trivialize the people actually suffering from the problem, and there van be real harm there. So I definitely agree with you to some extent. But some people are so hungry for community that self diagnosing some problem like ADHD makes them part of something else. That’s sad to me, but not infuriating.

I do understand that mislabeling normal things as a mental health issue can be problematic. I wish you didn’t assume I thought otherwise from our small exchange. My point of responding was that I find it really annoying when people say “well everyone does or feels X so there’s nothing wrong with you”. I think that also does a lot of damage to people.

I’d say that the person on display in the comic doesn’t seem to be showing “normal” or “healthy” procrastination to me, but there is room for disagreement I guess.

Wow, people are so extreme on the Internet. One comment saying maybe take a step back and we’re already at “fucking stupid”.

This comic is relevant to general human experience and ADHD, both are true and valid. The comic didn’t tell people to self diagnose and no one here has told anyone to self diagnose.

Normal people feel sad. Feeling sad consistently and having it harm your life and not knowing how to fix it is called depression. People with these problems aren’t aliens showing weird never been seen before behaviors or emotions, but their lives are consistently disrupted by these normal things. It’s a problem of how often and how much the person can control it.

I have no skin in this game, but IPs are definitely not anonymous data. Also there is a lot of great info out there about de-anonymizing seemingly random data. Interestingly enough, this is similar to the Netflix prize dataset that was one of the more famous ones. Maybe a good introduction to that would be https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/12/anonymity_and_t_2.html

Nobody is gonna be using a quantum computer to “crack email hashes” of Plex users in a few years… I’m not even sure there is a speedup to hash cracking with quantum computers.

But depending on the hashing algorithm used, it’s likely pretty easy to crack hashes of email addresses today with a normal computer. They’re not particularly high entropy.

I see why it does this now. Debian does

CONFIG=/etc/samba/smb.conf
# stuff
ucf --three-way --debconf-ok /usr/share/samba/smb.conf "$CONFIG"

in the postinit inside the .deb file to create the /etc/samba/smb.conf file. They do it this way so they don’t nuke an already created file. I take back that they should be shipping an empty file, this way is better, but it also means you’ll never be able to query it without some changes to the packaging tools.

The man page should mention the path though that’s a bit lame.

This is a good argument for shipping an empty config file.

Your point stands, but this also isn’t completely unintuitive. There is pattern there: you installed samba and the config is in /etc/samba/. System level installs will almost always install their config in /etc/ and the sub directory will typically match the name somewhat.

There is likely a general thought that if you’re going to administer a samba server, you’ll also be comfortable with conventions and man pages. Although, funnily enough, in the particular case of samba, man smb.conf doesn’t show the path lol

Yikes. Not sure why I expected anything else.

You typically won’t have permission to write them with ADB.

Why so hostile and the name calling…? They’re saying it’s a lot of work for oftentimes a single person to do. That’s just the truth.

There is a lot of entitlement around free software. People expecting free things, often written in someone’s spare time, to be really polished just don’t understand I guess. On top of that, good documentation is hard to write and sometimes it’s a completely different skill than writing the software itself.

QEMU makes it pretty painless to hook up gdb just FYI; you should look into that. I think you can also have it provide a memory mapped UART for I/O which you can use with newlib to get printf debugging

I feel seen

Sounds fun. Maybe I’m missing something but I wouldn’t expect a local restaurant to have rolled their own takeout backend. Are you actually seeing places that do? The branding might be subtle, but I’d be really surprised if they weren’t using a canned service.

Most Internet services don’t run at the scale of Reddit with its real time demands.

That was essentially my point. If Reddit can run on a weakly typed garbage collected language, so can Mbin :)

Weird take. The majority of internet services run on garbage collected language, and, apart from Go and most JVM based languages, those are typically not strictly typed. Reddit runs on Python.

Also I’m pretty sure PHP8 has JIT.

Pretty much everyone I work with uses vim, emacs, sublime, or vscode. I like IDEs and use them for… well Java, but I wouldn’t argue that they’ve made the other tools obsolete or you’re a fool for sticking with the old ones. If it ain’t broke and all that. It actually seems like more people are moving back to pluggable text editors over IDEs

I’ve used AI tools a bit. They’ve really helped drop in code that would previously just be a bunch of TODOs; they get you up and writing the core parts much faster to see if the idea even works. They’ve also really helped answer specific questions or lead me towards the answer. They’ve also straight up lied to me quite a bit. It’s a weird tool.

I think the OP image is pretty wrong with the comparison it makes. LLMs/AI are a class of technology that are most definitely not going anywhere unless something dramatic happens. Some people, myself included, feel uneasy about the way they’re created and the fact that people in powerful positions completely misunderstand them, and I think that leads to the hope that they’re just a fad.

Yea, it sounds pretty nice actually. I’m considering doing that as well. Makes it obvious when you’re running in a root shell too which is nice. I’d probably still keep sudo around though.

With a programmable keyboard it can just be one button too!

Oops