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Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#91

Post by lewisjoe » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 6:08 PM UTC

I'd like to someday ssh into somebody's computer; run `say` with creepy texts. JFF.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#92

Post by delinka » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 6:09 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #25

benihana wrote: post #23

I like do harmless pranks on coworkers who don't lock their computers yes "lock your computer, numbskull" | xargs say Just repeats the phrase in a monotone computer voice over their headphones. I only do this to engineers, tried it on a PM once, never again.

Have you ever asked yourself if maybe you're just being annoying? I don't lock my computer. It'll time out and lock after an hour but I prefer to leave it unlocked.

"I don't lock my computer."

This is a fire-able offense where I work.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#93

Post by dang » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 6:10 PM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #6

What's with all the buzzfeed-level headlines making HN frontpage the past few days? Not to say this isn't a useful list (for OSX users that is), but I can't possibly be the only one weirded out by this.

> buzzfeed-level headlines making HN frontpage the past few days

This is most likely random fluctuation a.k.a. sample bias, but if you know of any that didn't get corrected, please email them to us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can figure out why.

People post such titles all the time but we change them systematically. For example, we changed this one shortly after your comment. Normally we'd have replied to your comment then; probably the moderator didn't see it.

Users not in North American time zones do see more baity titles, though. We cover as broad a span of hours as we can, but it isn't 24.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

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Post by D4AHNGM » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 6:14 PM UTC

jd3 wrote: post #75

Great list, not a big fan of homebrew personally, or its creator who seems to be full of himself. I'd recommend pkg_src from joyent[0]. homebrew seems to have a lot of the hip webdev packages, but pkg_src and joyent's repository is the real deal when it comes to hardcore UNIX package management. Some friends have a nice bootstrap for pkg_src on OS X called saveosx[1], too. [0]: https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-os…

Homebrew's creator hasn't been involved with Homebrew for nearly two years now.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#95

Post by reuven » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 6:15 PM UTC

Bud wrote: post #77

pavel_lishin wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great, and the voices apparently only know how to speak English, and their own language! That is, typing say -v Milena "Здравствуйте, меня зовут Milena. Actually says, "Zdravstvuyte...", while typing say -v Bruce "Здравствуйте, меня зовут Milena. Results in "Cyrillic capital letter 'Z'. Cyrillic small leter 'd'.", etc.

They don't actually know how to speak English. If you listen carefully, what they are doing is sounding out English using the pronunciation rules of their "native" language. It's not an accent at all, just a literal parsing using different rules.

That's precisely what ends up causing an accent, no? Using the sounds and pronunciation of your native language in another one, with different rules.

I don't think that Apple has created the World's Best Accent Impersonator here, but it's good for a few laughs.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#96

Post by pavel_lishin » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 6:18 PM UTC

Bud wrote: post #77

pavel_lishin wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great, and the voices apparently only know how to speak English, and their own language! That is, typing say -v Milena "Здравствуйте, меня зовут Milena. Actually says, "Zdravstvuyte...", while typing say -v Bruce "Здравствуйте, меня зовут Milena. Results in "Cyrillic capital letter 'Z'. Cyrillic small leter 'd'.", etc.

They don't actually know how to speak English. If you listen carefully, what they are doing is sounding out English using the pronunciation rules of their "native" language. It's not an accent at all, just a literal parsing using different rules.

Two-part response.

1, the pedantic: technically none of them know how to speak English, or any other language - there's just a rule set for making phonemes based on characters out of waveforms.

2. Ignoring the pedantic response, I still don't think that's true - if that were the case, then Milena wouldn't be able to speak an English sentence!

    say -v Milena "Hello, I am Milena"

If they only speak their own language, then Milena should be saying "Прописная буква Х, строчная буква и", etc.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#97

Post by joesmo » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 6:21 PM UTC

mistersquid wrote: post #34

As a longtime Mac user (as early as System 7) and aficionado of UNIX, I love OS X's CLI and its affordances. The linked article provides several well-packaged tidbits that might encourage users of other CLI-replete OS's to check out OS X. More power. However, I'm not a fan of the soft recommendation for Homebrew. I understand Homebrew places everything in `/usr/local` but software installs on Mac should generally con…

I think MacPorts is a much better tool than Homebrew with way more useful packages. It also installs itself into /opt/local by default so it doesn't conflict with other stuff in /usr/local and for actual OS X or X-Windows apps, it installs them in /Applications. Luckily, they can both live on one system if you're careful, as some people insist on providing only Homebrew copies of their software, which is a bit unfortunate considering that MacPorts is clearly the better system.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#98

Post by pavel_lishin » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 6:23 PM UTC

jason_slack wrote: post #82

lukeholder wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recommend "Amphetamine" as an alternative. More features and kept up to date with bug fixes and improvements. I am not affiliated, just a happy user.

Can you explain why one might use this, versus just setting the machine to not sleep in System Preferences, in combination with not turning off hard disks, etc? I still set my display to sleep, however. Am I missing something?

You may want your machine to go to sleep normally - e.g., when you leave it on your desk at home and go to sleep - but not when you're at a hackathon, and are running some process while you go and get a snack, or are presenting a video that requires no actual input from you.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#99

Post by drjeats » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 6:27 PM UTC

fensipens wrote: post #42

say -v cellos "Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo" :)

:)

I have a little local deploy script that runs this if it fails a smoke test:

say -v Bad "Deployment failed, server gave a bad response"

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#100

Post by Steuard » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 6:28 PM UTC

cstross wrote: post #85

A key command is missing: textutil. textutil is a general purpose front end to the core text engine and is one of the cleanest docx-to-html converters I've run across, with a bunch of file formats supported and charset encoding translations, metadata manipulation commands, and assorted juicy goodness for people who have to mess with word-processed text. Ironically the only common-on-Apple document format it can't do…

The followup post (evidently this was from last year) credits you with that addition.

(I was surprised by the lack of support for Pages, too.)