UNIX was created back in the day when we couldn't afford vowels, and many consonants. So common commands had to be shortened a little bit:
"Copy" becomes "cp"
"List" becomes "ls"
"Rename" becomes "mv" and so on.
But fear not. Soon systemd will restore the balance with long command names again. This is 2024 and 70's okay?
@nixCraft I was told that {Brian|Dennis} was asked in an interview if he would change anything on the UNIX design. He thought a moment and replied, "I would spell 'creat' with an 'e'". Source: unknown.
@ai6yr I am out of it now, but I spent nearly 50 years in the corporate world on the engineering and engr-management side. Besides all the stuff going on in the other departments, engineers loved to pull the caste structures into their own lives with layers and layers of titles. At Bell Labs (decades ago), the MTS Member of Tech Staff title included people from newly graduated to Nobel Laureates. Other companies had titles that encompassed 5% salary deltas. Goofy gradations.
@Forest_Jungle_Collective We will be there in about two weeks. Any highlights to recommend? We visited several sites in Portugal last December. Walking in the steps of deep history….
The Bombing of Guernica happened today in 1937. It was a new and horrible cooperation between fascists states (Francoist Spain, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy) to bomb civilians and ultimately lay the blame for the mass casualties on "guerrillas”, “terrorists”... in this case “Reds”.
This is super weird...today I noticed my video about Richard Dawkins had zero comments (previously it had hundreds) and digging into the settings, YouTube turned off comments somehow. I've turned them back on but did the algorithm just fuck me over? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PWRZPi67Mc
@rebeccawatson I apologize if I am being argumentative, but your wording is stronger: “but did the algorithm just fuck me over?” I do not think I am being thin-skinned or puritanical.
But back to my point, I suggest it is an inept programmer acting under deadlines rather than a focused attempt to fuck over or protect any individual. I have no data to support this beyond anecdotal experience.
@stshank I do not see the problem. California is not an island. There is a large national grid. Sell the excess to the cloudy places. Charge electric cars. If anything, this is not a solar problem but a transmission problem with a storage annotation.