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Advanced Terminal Tips and Tricks
  • This tip is super useful to me because not everyone is using a PC. On a PC sure, I would use the Home and End keys all the time. Now I'm using a laptop as my main computer and the Home and End keys are in a weird position that even to this day, 4ish years of laptop use, I still have to actually look at the keys to find them.

  • Advanced Terminal Tips and Tricks
  • My favorite tips are:

    You can filter the output of a command. Most commands return parameters like (output, error) so you can filter them by number like 1>/dev/null will filter the output and only show the errors, and 2>/dev/null will filter the errors and only show the output. Also if you want a command to run silently but it doesn't have it's own built-in quiet mode you can add &>/dev/null which will filter everything.

    Bash (and other shell's I assume) can be fully customized. In addition to the .bashrc file in your home directory, there are also a few common files that bash will look for like .bash_aliases, .bash_commands, .bash_profile or you can create your own and just add to the end of the .bashrc file ./YOUR_CUSTOM_BASH_FILE_NAME

    Inside that file you can add any custom commands you want to run for every bash shell like aliases and what not.

    I personally often use a simple update command like so alias up='sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y' which just makes running updates, upgrades, and clean-up so much easier. Just type up and enter your password. I have previously added in things like &>/dev/null to quiet the commands and echo Fetching updates... to make some commands quieter but still give some simple feedback.

    There's also the basics of moving around a terminal command as others have pointed out. The easiest and the one I use the most is if you hold CTRL+LEFT_ARROW the cursor will move entire words instead of one character at a time. Very helpful if you need to change something in the middle of a command.

  • YouTube of Yore
  • I'm not sure if I've seen that one, I'll have to check it out, thanks!

    Is it this one? http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/alpaca-animated-music-video-mrweebl/

    Or maybe you were referring to the Llamas In Hats series? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBE8C175E9FAAA34A

    I was always partial to the Amazing Horse one for some reason. http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/amazing-horse-animated-music-video-mrweebl/

    I used to listen to it for hours and a weird quirk of Flash animations was that often the audio track and the video were milliseconds off so over time it would get very out of sync.

  • Linux Myths
  • Current Linux market share worldwide for desktops is at ~4%. There's also ~2% ChromeOS which is Linux based so I don't know why it's listed separately. As well as ~6% other which is probably Linux with privacy settings turned on.

    If we go back 5 years in Linux desktop usage, the high end is including the "Other" category.

    2019: ~2% to ~9% 2020: ~2.5% to ~5% 2021: ~3.5% to ~11.5% 2022: ~4.5% to ~10.5% 2023: ~6.5% to ~10% 2024: ~6% to ~12%

    There is definitely a growing trend, the user base has grown somewhere between 33% and 300% depending on whether you include the "Other" category, which I personally think is a pretty safe assumption since for most PC users if it's not Windows or Os X, it's Linux.

    Here's where I got the data from: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

  • Ken Levine says BioShock nearly went nowhere and was almost canceled: "We can't make those games because they don't sell"
  • I would argue that Bioshock is one of the few video game franchises that would probably do well in a non-interactive story medium. It's a very story driven video game. As long as they trust the writers to respect the source material and come up with a compelling story, I think it could be great. There's always a chance that it's a disaster though.

  • Which one was your favorite guys
  • I don't get it, but I assume there's some obscure historical or philosophical joke going on here. Can someone explain?

    Or maybe it's "read" as in "read his book" and the drag term "read him for filth" lol I hope it's that one

  • Dark Matter
  • Yeah I figured it maybe also had something to do with the distribution of matter throughout the universe. We assumed when we made predictions of the distant past that the supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies were the same mass as they are today, but if they were less massive then it might help explain why black holes didn't gather as much material into it's orbit as we would have thought.

    I think you're right though that it has more to do with the negative pressure that space and the black holes seem to exert although I must admit I don't really understand what that means or how you would get a negative pressure from a black hole or from space.

  • Dark Matter
  • I saw a paper on here recently that basically said they've explained dark energy through what they called "cosmological coupling" of black holes. Basically, black holes absorb space over time, and since space has a base level of energy and energy is kind of a form of mass then the black holes are gaining mass over time and so they are less massive in the past than they are today. I don't 100% understand why that explains dark energy, but it is a very new paper and as far as I know hasn't been peer reviewed yet, so who knows!

    Here's the paper: https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/2023/02/first-observational-evidence-linking-black-holes-to-dark-energy/

  • Dark Matter
  • "dark" in scientific terms just means unexplained. We're very, very, very, and I cannot stress this enough... VERY sure that dark matter and dark energy exist, but they will remain "dark" until we discover what they are/what's causing the effects that we see. Aether was just unfounded non-sense that was based on practically nothing.

  • Lets Help Adobe
  • Cool animation! 10/10 style points!

    For those unaware, Adobe changed their terms of service recently to say that if you agree to the terms then they officially own anything you create using their software and can use it however they want. Specifically this line:

    you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content.

    This probably means that Adobe has built some kind of backdoor into their programs to access your files and send it off to their servers. Pretty shitty of them!

  • Progress happens with every death
  • For example, carbon dating took discoveries including counting tree rings to determine a tree's age, the origins of all the radiation on Earth -- spoiler: it was the Earth itself, but also cosmic rays which was the important bit, nuclear half-lives and creating a chart of specifically useful half-lives for historical dating, the discovery of a rare isotope of carbon which can only be made by cosmic rays (carbon-14) as a near perfect clock for human timescales, how to build a sensor that can read faint carbon-14 radioactivity while filtering out all the radioactive noise from the environment, making another chart of expected radioactive readings based on geographical location including the depths of the ocean, and of course not to mention all of the archeological data used to calibrate all of the charts and devices used in the process.

  • Neuroscience Explains Women's Reaction to Sexual Harassment
  • No, it's about your relationship to that person. Are you on friendly terms? Are they comfortable around you? Do you have some kind of established rapport?

    Or are you a complete stranger making a weird comment about another strangers physical appearance out of nowhere?

  • BG3 player, is this relatable?
  • imo Shadowheart was the most unbearable companion at the start. But I think the point was that they're all deeply flawed people that are forced to come together and face their trauma. Tadpole therapy works, I guess!