catastrophicblues

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Just realized I can just use "..." to go back two directories! Is this a zsh feature?

I accidentally discovered that both “cd …” and “…” work, and moreover, I can add more dots to go back further! I’m using zsh on iTerm2 on macOS. I’m pretty sure this isn’t a cd feature. Is this specific to zsh or iTerm2? Are there other cool features I just never knew existed??...

catastrophicblues,

Really? Doesn’t seem to work when I use bash:


<span style="color:#323232;">bash-3.2$ cd a/b/c/d/e
</span><span style="color:#323232;">bash-3.2$ ...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">bash: ...: command not found
</span><span style="color:#323232;">bash-3.2$ cd ...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">bash: cd: ...: No such file or directory
</span>
catastrophicblues,

Yup, that’s what I’ve always understood. Seems like this is zsh-specific, since using the default Terminal app with zsh also works. Do you know if other shells (fish, csh, etc.) support this syntactic sugar? Anything else zsh has that I should know?

catastrophicblues,

Wait what??? That’s amazing! I’m learning so much.

catastrophicblues,

I totally forgot! Makes sense that the implementation is shell-specific.

Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights?

I usually play games on “normal” difficulty these days, for a balanced challenge. However, I don’t particularly enjoy boss fights, or at least I don’t enjoy the extra challenge associated with them. Was thinking it would be nice if games had a separate setting so I could just set boss fights to “easy”, while not...

catastrophicblues,

Zelda games have a neat scaling mechanism. If an idiot like me could beat the final boss in a couple tries, anyone can. And it’s super fun too.

catastrophicblues,

That’s good. I’ve been watching this bill closely ever since they said they’d add it for mentally ill patients in early 2023.

catastrophicblues,

I think that is the standard if I’m not mistaken. I haven’t looked too closely though, I could be wrong.

catastrophicblues,

That last sentence is so true. I love FOSS and tech, but there are cases where proprietary software is better, and that’s okay. Let’s be objective, not an echo chamber.

catastrophicblues,

Yeah I agree I don’t find alignment very useful. It’s more work for dubious benefit, and god forbid you change one of the lines.

catastrophicblues,

Kagi is great. I just wish it was a little bit cheaper. Every time I search more I’m aware it’s costing me.

Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced (lore.kernel.org)

I’ve said this previously, and I’ll say it again: we’re severely under-resourced. Not just XFS, the whole fsdevel community. As a developer and later a maintainer, I’ve learnt the hard way that there is a very large amount of non-coding work is necessary to build a good filesystem. There’s enough not-really-coding work...

catastrophicblues,

This so so much. I want to contribute. The only time I ever have are when the barrier to getting setup and finding things I can do are low.

catastrophicblues,

For me it’s just too much political stuff. On the other hand, if I block some keywords, I might only be left with memes and shitposts.

catastrophicblues,

That bit made me cringe. You go to the file, and can download using the Raw button or using wget. It’s not hard, it’s ignorance.

catastrophicblues,

Also be wary about sharing confidential code. At work I don’t use ChatGPT unless it’s for extremely general questions.

catastrophicblues,

It’s contextual. My understanding is that in British English, “going to uni” is equivalent to the American English “going to college”. At least in the US, the word college colloquially refers to undergrad, though a lot of colleges do offer postgraduate programs.

catastrophicblues,

Seriously that would be great lol. At least it would be a funny reference.

catastrophicblues,

Is it private? It’s asking me to sign in for access.

catastrophicblues,

Ah well. It’s on archive.org, though, so I’m currently seeing if I can download from there.

catastrophicblues,

I did too lol. I love the Web Archive.

Celebrating A true Canadian hero (lemmy.ca)

40 years ago today Terry Fox, a 21 year old Canadian who lost a leg to cancer, began an east to west cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. He ran the equivalent of a full marathon every day and made it to 145 days and 5,373km before he was forced to stop and he lost his battle with cancer.

catastrophicblues,

An absolute legend. I remember being taught his story in school and thinking how cool the whole thing (except the cancer) was. The Terry Fox Run is about celebrating him and overcoming major hurdles.

catastrophicblues,

Also the constant outcries from vegans and environmentalists…like we get it, the world is on fire. You’re not the first to tell me that and there’s little I can do about it. It’s so exhausting.

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