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I read HN every day and this is the first time I've seen this submission...
Here are the previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rgcr
Super curious as to why you're getting downvotes... :/
Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
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Re: Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
#22Thanks for crafting and sharing this. I must admit to flagging this particular submission, as it is the fifth time it has been posted in as many days, with no other contributions (whether of comments or stories) to speak of. Forgive me if this seems harsh, but just to keep submitting the same item over and over without any other activity (including responding to comments made in the prior submissions) does not seem i…
I've been pretty active on HN the last few days, and this is the first I've seen of it. Is redundancy sufficient for flagging? I always thought flagging was only for abusive or off-topic content, and redundant submissions were a moderator thing.
> Is redundancy sufficient for flagging? I always thought flagging was only for abusive or off-topic content, and redundant submissions were a moderator thing.
It looks like the same person was submitting the same thing, daily, to try and make it stick (without any other apparent engagement with the site in terms of submissions or comments). So I think @miles is considering that abusive behavior?
I believe when the mods ask people to resubmit something, they only ask for 1 resubmission (at least that's how it went when I was asked to resubmit something: a second shot, and it didn't get picked up, so that's that).
Re: Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
#23I like how each function is contained in an individual plugin file. I can install (create a local script) which plugins I want without needing to install them all. Even if you do not want to install any of the code, it shows you the command line needed in OS X. The volume plugin has a more fine-grained control for adjusting the volume. The keyboard based function keys will increase/decrease the volume by 6/7. Now I c…
As an aside, holding down the option key on your Mac while adjusting the volume will do it in much smaller increments.
Re: Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
#24I like how each function is contained in an individual plugin file. I can install (create a local script) which plugins I want without needing to install them all. Even if you do not want to install any of the code, it shows you the command line needed in OS X. The volume plugin has a more fine-grained control for adjusting the volume. The keyboard based function keys will increase/decrease the volume by 6/7. Now I c…
You can use Alt+Shift+VolumeUp/Down to change volume by quarters of an increment.
Re: Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been pretty active on HN the last few days, and this is the first I've seen of it. Is redundancy sufficient for flagging? I always thought flagging was only for abusive or off-topic content, and redundant submissions were a moderator thing.
> Is redundancy sufficient for flagging? I always thought flagging was only for abusive or off-topic content, and redundant submissions were a moderator thing. It looks like the same person was submitting the same thing, daily, to try and make it stick (without any other apparent engagement with the site in terms of submissions or comments). So I think @miles is considering that abusive behavior? I believe when the m…
I don't know. I mean on one hand I get it but on the other I go plenty of times when people submit awesome stuff it's just bad timing. So I don't care.
Re: Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
#26The last one of these that popped up on HN replaced a lot of the common UNIX commands, and a lot of people here rightly asked 'why would I run "mac tar:extract" when I could just run "tar xf"?' This one seems to get the balance a lot more right, with a lot of things that the average OS X admin wouldn't know off the top of their head. - 'm lock': That's a lot better than whichever arcane key combination does it by def…
I think if you go to the Keychain, you can configure it to put an icon in the top right tray that you can click on to lock your computer. I often find myself accidentally moving my mouse to the top right corner of my Windows and Linux machines to lock them now.
Re: Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
#27The last one of these that popped up on HN replaced a lot of the common UNIX commands, and a lot of people here rightly asked 'why would I run "mac tar:extract" when I could just run "tar xf"?' This one seems to get the balance a lot more right, with a lot of things that the average OS X admin wouldn't know off the top of their head. - 'm lock': That's a lot better than whichever arcane key combination does it by def…
The basic command for keeping the machine awake is `caffeinate`, and has a few other nice options like changing what kind of sleep is prevented (disk, display, system) and also waiting on a PID (looks like that was added in 10.10).
Related to that is `pmset -g assertions` which will list all the various things that are keeping your machine from sleeping.
Re: Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
#28The last one of these that popped up on HN replaced a lot of the common UNIX commands, and a lot of people here rightly asked 'why would I run "mac tar:extract" when I could just run "tar xf"?' This one seems to get the balance a lot more right, with a lot of things that the average OS X admin wouldn't know off the top of their head. - 'm lock': That's a lot better than whichever arcane key combination does it by def…
I think if you go to the Keychain, you can configure it to put an icon in the top right tray that you can click on to lock your computer. I often find myself accidentally moving my mouse to the top right corner of my Windows and Linux machines to lock them now.
That is exactly what I do. I think that the combo I would normally try (Cmd+L) logs you out. I remember at one point trying to find the correct key combination, and the primary results were to put the lock icon up. That works find enough for me.
Re: Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
#29I like how each function is contained in an individual plugin file. I can install (create a local script) which plugins I want without needing to install them all. Even if you do not want to install any of the code, it shows you the command line needed in OS X. The volume plugin has a more fine-grained control for adjusting the volume. The keyboard based function keys will increase/decrease the volume by 6/7. Now I c…
You can use Alt+Shift+VolumeUp/Down to change volume by quarters of an increment.
Karabiner allows you to change the default behavior of the volume keys to use quarter steps with the "Fine grained volume controls" option (it simply adds the alt+shift for you). Very useful with headphones that are too sensitive. https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
Re: Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X
#30m dir tree returns:
/usr/local/m-cli/plugins/dir: line 3: /lib/functions.sh: No such file or directory