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  • glue_snorter@lemmy.sdfeu.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlBypassing "wifi pausing"
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    1 year ago

    Racial origins of those terms? Citation needed.

    Black and white, in the sense of good and evil, have had their connotations for a fucking long time, whereas black and white to describe skin colour are relatively recent etymologies. I’m pretty sure that Romans didn’t call themselves “white” or others “black”, for example.

    I’m willing to be taught, but this sounds like bullshit to me.

    The etymology being wrong doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t drop freighted terminology, I just don’t want false justification. Bullshit is never a valid reason to do something.


  • Pure FUD. Worse, it’s wilfully stupid.

    Are you in the habit of picking pipeline commands at random? Do you not usually have a purpose in mind? OBVIOUSLY the receiving end has to understand what it’s receiving, or what the fuck are you even doing?

    Do you believe that your text processing commands don’t have to understand what they receive?

    Let’s get the ports of the node container.

    Bash:

    docker ps | grep node | cut -n 6 -f ' '
    

    Pwsh:

    docker-ps | where name -eq 'node' | select ports
    

    First the grep command shits the bed because at some point you started a new container running a nodejs image.

    Then the cut command fails because you had a container with a space in the name, so it outputs mounts instead of ports.

    That’s a non-issue with sematic tools. Semantic tools are also legible. Yeah, I can figure out what that awk command does, but it’s meaningless unless I also know the shape of the data is supposed to operate on.

    You don’t write “USE 2nd DATABASE; SELECT 3rd COLUMN FROM 10th ROW”, do you? Why would you want to do that in a shell?




  • My understanding is that the Windows terminal sucks? I don’t know why, it just looks bad.

    Your understanding is wrong. I’ve tried 8 different terminals on mac, arch and kubuntu, and I miss Windows Terminal every day. It looks good and the config is a pleasure. I don’t expect Linux to look pretty, but MacOS had fucking awful font rendering and it’s supposed to be this upmarket OS for moneyed pricks in black turtlenecks. Was everyone in unixland busy doing drugs while Microsoft was implementing anti-aliasing? Is clear legible type for losers?




  • I did not find that at all.

    I’m sorry you have that - I didn’t. I was quit with no cravings for five years, what got me back in was spliffs with tobacco. (Now I vape, because I do intend to occasionally smoke weed with tobacco.)

    The reason you still have cravings is because you never deprogrammed yourself. You still associate gaspers with relief, relaxation, pleasure.

    If you can reframe the sensation of smoking as the tense tickly feeling of “god I could use a fag”, which no-one would claim to enjoy, the rest is plain sailing, and within a few weeks you’ll be past any cravings. The bulk of the cravings are done within a few days.

    I don’t mean to suggest that it’s easy to quit - most people fail. But the trick is not too withstand cravings for the rest of your life, it’s too break the paradoxical association of fags with pleasure, which is a one-time thing.