Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "The Starship Prompt Offers Infinite Possibilities" video.

  1. As far as I can tell, Torvalds named it that because it's a homophone of "get" and an insult in British English. But I could find no definitive explanation for it so I'm left to assume that duality of reasons based on his statements.
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  2.  @myegane49  I hope you get it working either way. Would be pretty cool.
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  3. In the near future everything will be Rust. We'll have plenty of eyerape going on, flashing lights, colors beyond what a human can see, and of course the obligatory loss of real functionality. Everything will look like a typical Twitter developer's desktop and just as much work will get done. People will spend one full year configuring their systems and then quit to work somewhere else because they don't feel their contributions are appreciated only to spend one more full year reconfiguring everything because they need to match the new company's colors only to then quit because they still don't feel their contributions are being appreciated. Infinite loops everywhere because why not, they're somehow more efficient... to write.
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  4. Maybe he learned the alphabet in reverse.
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  5.  @DanMackAlpha  Does Fedora's monospace font include a snake character, or lambda?
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  6. I haven't seen any of the newer episodes, but the old ones from way back in the 80's and 90's were great.
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  7. Do you mean some sort of temporary prompt you setup and throw away? What would you use that for and why is a dynamically changing prompt not good enough for that purpose?
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  8.  @s0laret012  I'm still not sure what you mean. Are you saying that after entering a command and hitting enter that it keeps you on the last line of output for the command? Or it doesn't output anything for the prompt string for you? Either would certainly be a bug.
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  9. Is it actually usable yet?
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