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This reminds me of an old joke I heard a while back, which is that the opposite of "it's like riding a bike" is "it's like the UNIX command line". No matter how many times you do it, you will have to re-learn it every single time.
I use the `ln` command a lot. I use the `man ln` command _almost_ as much.
Twice in the last decade I've been completely stuck on something, googled extensively, finally found the answer ... which I wrote, on Usenet, 25 years ago.
This reminds me of an old joke I heard a while back, which is that the opposite of "it's like riding a bike" is "it's like the UNIX command line". No matter how many times you do it, you will have to re-learn it every single time.
I use the `ln` command a lot. I use the `man ln` command _almost_ as much.
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I use the `ln` command a lot. I use the `man ln` command _almost_ as much.
i've always considered manpages to be sort of part of the unix command line experience. since they're fast, it's no matter. but yea, it took me many years to wire down ln's target link_name semantics for some reason. what helped for me was to reason about the single argument form. ln -s ~/opt/junk/bin/thinger creates a link to thinger in the current directory. this single argument form is easy to remember, if you wan…
Edit: this line of reasoning works for common usage of a lot of other utils too, like zip/tar etc. Even grep - is it grep FILE PATTERN [PATTERN ...] or grep PATTERN FILE [FILE ...] ?
Zen Koan: Before I began my studies in Zen, I thought a tree was a tree and a stone, a stone. When I started to study Zen, I could see that a tree was not a tree, and a stone was not a stone. Now that I am a Zen master, I know that a tree is a tree and a stone is a stone. -- Source: my buddy in college I think you come full circle to learn that you can only keep so much in your head at one time and that you're always…
There's a poplar meme called "midwit meme"[0]. I guess it's a popular observation. [0] https://imgflip.com/i/6peco7
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I get a little offended by people who think stackoverflow is a character flaw. I go there because it will tell me things like if you get the arguments to ‘dd’ wrong you’ll zero out the drive you were trying to back up. That the function breaks if you pass in null for the second parameter. Or that it simply doesn’t work properly.
I think that using dd is a character flaw.
Twice in the last decade I've been completely stuck on something, googled extensively, finally found the answer ... which I wrote, on Usenet, 25 years ago.
Worse : You Google a question and realise you yourself asked it many moons ago and it never got answered.
Zen Koan: Before I began my studies in Zen, I thought a tree was a tree and a stone, a stone. When I started to study Zen, I could see that a tree was not a tree, and a stone was not a stone. Now that I am a Zen master, I know that a tree is a tree and a stone is a stone. -- Source: my buddy in college I think you come full circle to learn that you can only keep so much in your head at one time and that you're always…
Related: The Egg http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
Zen Koan: Before I began my studies in Zen, I thought a tree was a tree and a stone, a stone. When I started to study Zen, I could see that a tree was not a tree, and a stone was not a stone. Now that I am a Zen master, I know that a tree is a tree and a stone is a stone. -- Source: my buddy in college I think you come full circle to learn that you can only keep so much in your head at one time and that you're always…
Reminds me of how after learning how CPUs, memory, operating systems etc work I thought "wow, it really is all ones and zeroes". A simple phrase but it became more meaningful with deeper understanding.
It is true in the sense that 1 and 0 are common representations for true and false in computer science, but really, it is false and almost certainly establishes magical thinking in the layperson.
Modern computers run on electricity, and in electrical circuits such as computers, true/false is represented as a transistor semiconductor being in a conducting or non-conducting state. Current can either flow, or it can’t.
In fact, one could build a computer out almost anything that lends itself to both being on and off, and to being controlled by its on/off state (or that of another equivalent assembly).
