spray a bunch of strong smelling essential oils on the area

doesn’t hurt them, but will deter them

science!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow

cast Gate on the bottom of the ocean

20ft wide portal to whatever other plane you want to dump the ocean in

at the bottom of the mariana trench you’d get some 200,000,000 gallons per minute through that sucker

it’ll still take more than 3 million years (per very naive, optimistic napkin math) to drain all the oceans but you can probably find other people to join your mad ocean destruction cult over that time and get things going in parallel

the real question is: where are you putting all this water

I have ever written an ssh wrapper that automagically rsynced my shell config (and other dotfiles and tools) to the target host

that job had way too many pets

Honestly, same on both counts. I’m really glad my extensive batch file days are well behind me. And as much as I like Powershell’s idea of structured output between commands, I never really gelled with the Verbose-Noun-Verb-Syntax. I’ll stick to memorizing my cryptic acronyms kthxbai.

zsh is my main

though i grew up on bash and write scripts targeting sh

cmd.exe has entered the chat

rookies

i gave up saving for retirement when it became clear we were going to do fuck all about climate change

i regret burdening you with this knowledge

class A amnestics should be freely available from your local [redacted] should you desire

well that is an upside

tv series rather than film but: The Dresden Files

worst change? everything

harry’s staff – carved from a lightning struck tree from the property of his mentor, iirc, and carved with various runes – is replaced with a hockey stick

bob the skull – a constructed sprit of intellect bound to a skull – is now a ghost of some guy

they made lt murphy a brunette

probably more idk I didn’t get more than an episode in and that was years ago

hard agree

is the fact that people can with effort and error figure out how to do something a reason not to make it easier for them to do?

I mean

you can in theory write multi-threaded bug-free C code – just read the docs and the specs and the source of your libs and never ever do something that seems to work but is subtly fatally incorrect

and yet we still have golang and rust and many other options to do things more safely and easily

if someone wants to use Linux but doesn’t want to memorize the Hundred Mandatory Commands and Thousand Flags lest they accidentally cat > /dev/sda, why shouldn’t there be a system for them?

as a professional sociotechnical problem solver I will join you on this fatal hill

like take the 4 types of documentation in diátaxis

man pages usually fulfill the reference need, and sometimes kind of that of how-to guides if you’re lucky and your local man has examples

but that leaves more than 50% of documentation needs lacking

and discoverability is atrocious – you have to already know that the command (or commands) you need exists and what it’s called

one of the most useful things I learned in a linux sysadmin course was apropos / man -k, which lets you search installed man pages by keyword. but hardly anyone else seems to know about it – I only learned of it because a teaching assistant mentioned it off hand! – and even then it only helps if you guess the right keyword for your problem

I am vexed by this situation

RÞFM

ftfy

nah

they might release the elusive third partyon

get turned into animal. Or a monster. Or impregnated by Zeus.

Zeus:

Loki turned into a mare, got pregnant by a magic stallion, and gave birth to an eight-legged horse.