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I agree. I am a developer and I know how to deal with special characters. But this isn't something I use professionally. I just prefer not to have to deal with special characters i…

Totally inefficient. But for me it's readable and practical. This is mostly just a convenience function for me to help store files in a format I like rather than something I need o…

Yeah, sometimes I end up renaming things I don't want to, but it really doesn't happen all that often. And sometimes I throw caution to the wind, add some excitement to my life, an…

I totally agree that for some people, this could be a terrible command to have around. However, I know that it has been working for me for about 8+ years or so. I almost always run…

I have an overly-aggressive function in my .bashrc to rename all files in the current directory: # Rename all files in a directory rn() { rename "s/ /-/g" * rename "s/_/-/g" * rena…

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t460 If you need 32GB of RAM, then the ThinkPad T460 would qualify. And Lenovo claims it has 18 hours of battery life, which …

The Linux project ( https://www.linux.com/blog/top-10-developers-and-companies-c... ) and Debian ( https://wiki.debian.org/Statistics ) track a fair amount of data.

My PhD is in musicology, so I've spent a few hundred hours in music theory courses (the differences between music theory, music history, musicology, and ethnomusicology are shrinki…

IBS is a "diagnosis of exclusion," so in some sense it is not a "real thing," but more accurately the "absence of other things." I really hated that answer, but it's the conclusion…