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But, if you're going to go through the trouble to use these in a command-line program, why not make a GUI?
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I propose that developers are allowed to use it in production... so long as they do all the development work on a 9600 baud dialup with a VT102.
A few years ago, a submarine cable was knocked out, between our startup's MVP servers in Singapore AWS, and our networked factory stations in Asia. In lieu of the submarine cable, something closer to a wet string was being routed over. It had such high latency and packet loss, that a watchdog timer I'd implemented on the stations was timing out. Fortunately, the remote access we'd built into our stations (SSH and Ope…
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Hot damn, I have to respect the author for shutting down any attempt to make him give in to the pressure. All these serious enterprise people worried about their cows, but then they do install ‘cowsay’ on their systems xD
The people complaining probably don't have the authority to remove it from the base image they're forced to use, unfortunately.
These are really cool, and I wish I could have used them when I ran a dial-up BBS. (Although I don't know if 14.4k or 28.8k were fast enough to handle these.) But, if you're going to go through the trouble to use these in a command-line program, why not make a GUI?
Because this is more fun.
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Idk I wouldn’t mind one or two of these as loading screens or something.
What CLI tools have a slow enough boot to require a loading screen? I'm sure there are some but... The only one that comes to mine for me is FileBot[0] - and if the loading screen made it take ANY additional time, I'd be annoyed. [0] https://www.filebot.net/
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How exactly did you get the stations working? Be specific.
"Be specific" sounds like a high-stakes interview, so I'd better answer. :) * SITUATION: Factory reports MVP factory stations for pilot customer "not turning on" for the day, reason unknown. * TASK: Get stations up in time for production line, so startup doesn't go out of business. * ACTION: Determined cause was unexplained networking problem outside our control, and that was triggering some startup time checks. But…
I freaking love this library! It reminds me of a time that I don't even know happened when computers seemed like a scifi possibility come true. So happy to see it on the front page. One of the coolest things is not just the ability to pipe cat outputs into it, but that it doubles up as a python library- next time you're making a throw away CLI with print outs and prompts, why not make it insanely jazzy?
EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I think it's really cool, but I wouldn't use it as a universal hammer.
In a similar vein in Emacs: M-x zone Every time you run it, it triggers a random screen saver effect. Fun when it's on a timer and triggers so your work colleagues wonder wth is going on.