Youtube hearted comments of HalfSourLizard (@halfsourlizard9319).

  1. I've been meaning to learn Ed -- just for history -- and now I'll do it in Bram's memory by way of understanding Vi and Vim better. We've lost a man who's fairly-deeply reprogrammed the brains of many of us ... and made us unable + unwilling to use all the other (obviously-inferior) text editors.
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  2. On Debian-based systems, looks like `sh` symlinks to `dash` (Tested on Debian, Mint, and Raspbian.).
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  3. These are hilarious / wonderful ... I probably wouldn't wear one, but I'm glad that they're out there.
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  4. Congrats on your new life as Derk! ;P
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  5. All the tech looks at least 10 years out-of-date, given that this thing was designed in the 1970s. Retronerds: Does that feel about right?
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  6. You know what has a 'no-nonsense interface'? Vim ... and if that has too many features, there are Vi and Ed. No Google adware, no web-browser/GUI bloat.
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  7.  @alexhajnal107  Almost like management by political agenda is a really shit idea, eh?😉
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  8. 3:40 'boot every day' ... why do you reboot your machine every day!? Killing your uptime!!!
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  9. This is pretty neato ... Yeah, I can use `dd` ... but sometimes doing 'easy mode' is nicer.
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  10. Learning curves have time on the X and knowledge level on the Y axis; so, a steep learning curve constitutes rapid learning ... Something that's difficult to learn, therefore, has a shallow learning curve.
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  11. That guy having an orgasm about the placement of the cornflake, though ...
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  12. Okay, that people are querying a nuclear reactor with a 1960s / Apollo-DSKY-style 'user interface' is equally disturbing.
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  13.  @alexhajnal107  Some glorious day, we'll be rid of humans entirely. Just us lizards + AGI. It'll be glorious.
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  14.  @ironhead2008  Formal proof of correctness seems significantly more important. A higher-level, referentially-transparent language would be significantly easier to prove anything about ... and -- because of better abstraction capabilities -- more tractable to make any mathematically-rigorous claims about.
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  15.  @ironhead2008  For instance: 'I wrote my assembly code reaaal carefully.' is an infinitely-less-convincing argument that deadlock is impossible than a proof in a formal logic.
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  16. Strategic incompetence is the best -- particularly if others can't quite tell whether you're doing it intentionally.
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  17. Might we exist because we're the DNA-based backup system for super-intelligent aliens that visited Earth in the distant past? I'm not saying it was aliens ... but you goddamned well know it was mf'ing aliens.
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