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The shell, and lots of other things that take per-line input, use readline to do it. The readline man page is… extensive… to say the least. There are many more useful shortcuts in there, but I doubt anyone uses more than a fraction of them.

Type cd then press Alt+. and it’ll copy the last argument of the previous command, make sure it’s what you want, and press Enter.

The problem is that Höcke probably looks at that and thinks “It was a good start”. People like that feel no shame for this sort of thing, and want more of it. It could be a powerful message to others though.

I should say that I’m referring to publicly traded companies here, private companies have different incentives.

Directors, including the CEO, don’t have a mandate to increase shareholder value, no, but under UK, and as far as I can see, US law, there are many rules around things like “actions prejudicial to a minor shareholder” and what is actually in the company’s interests, that the shareholders can, and do, sue both the directors and the companies for actions that do not increase shareholder value, especially as companies often hold their own stock on their balance sheets. They can do this because of the way both statutory and case law has formed. If statutory law, at least, made it that companies had a duty of care to their staff, could not lay off or reduce payments to more than some small percentage per year, and had to pay the costs of remidiating their environmental and societal damage as they inflicted it, these cases would largely vanish, and directors would be incentivised to optimise for those things instead.

Basically, if you make getting rich as a shareholder or CEO easier to do without screwing people over than by screwing them, CEOs and their boards will be less willing to screw everyone over in their pursuit of wealth.

This is something I think people forget too often. When you build and tune a system to incentivise anti-social behaviour, don’t be surprised when you get anti-social people doing anti-social things. We currently legally demand that management always maximise shareholder value, so that’s what they do, and that’s the sort of person who makes it to higher levels of management. If we changed that goal, the outcome would change too. Unfortunately the lawmakers who would have to make those changes are too invested in the current system for it to happen easily.

It is a horse made of knifes, in the shape of a knife, that wields knives. It has difficulty getting through screening at airports.

It does sound a bit daunting to begin with, but the process is actually fairly straightforward, and once you understand it, publishing your package to your repositories just becomes another step in your build pipeline.

Not really. The user adds the repository to the list of repositories their package manager is using, and the packages in that repository appear as normal packages for them to select. When the author publishes a new version of their package it’ll appear as an update in all users package managers.

Sort of, but each of them uses a different way of making the repository, so really it’s more a case of different repositories in different directories, but they can all be on the same website.

To be fair, he does address why flatpak isn’t really suitable for his package in particular, as it needs to get out of the sandbix flatpak puts it in, which is hacky. None-the-less, it does feel like he’s making a mountain out of a mole hill.

You can put the repositories on pretty much any static hosting. I haven’t tried it, but I’m pretty sure that, with a bit of fiddling, you could even put them on a github pages site.

Both distros have good tooling for maintaining repositories, and I’d say it’s probably easier than getting your package into the official repos and keeping it updated there, especially on distros like Debian which favour stability over having the latest versions of packages.

No distribution system is going to be entirely friction free for the author, but I’ve not encountered any significant issues hosting deb or rpm repos.

No automatic updates for .deb / .rpm

The author seems to have completely missed the point that they can just publish their own repositories to allow users on both of these platforms to update. It would also mean they could avoid the problems they’re having building source packages.

Their complaints about supporting instalations with older libc versions are also addressable by just building against the oldest libc they wish to support.

it tends to give “good enough” answers which are actually “nowhere near”.

The problem is it’s doing this when coding too. The resulting screed often looks plausible if you only look at it at the surface level, but once you dig in to it, it’s “nowhere near” and usually full of missed conditions on the unhappy path in particular.

The great circle of life.

Just got to rig up a lever to the trigger and you might even stop the car before impact. I imagine that’d give the bike a bit of a shove too, so maybe you need one on the other side too, to balance the forces.

Makes Awesomely Dramatic Destruction

Well, congratulations, I guess. I don’t think I’ve felt my blood pressure spike that hard reading the responses to a comment before. Pure ragebating!

If it’s a c-section they don’t sedate the mother if at all possible, because it can sedate the baby too. It takes them a lot longer to recover from, and increases risk a fair bit.

I…I think you’re supposed to use uncooked rice for this. What you do with it afterwards is no-one’s business but you’re own.

Good grief! Please mark this NSFW. You can’t just go posting pictures like that without warning.

/insert train carriage copypasta here