This applies outside of IT just as much, maybe more. It’s the rare person who will admit it though.
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1·12 days agoKinda yeah, but I think that just comes from storing the output of the PWD command.
The system call that returns that value is called getcwd().
Kinda, but it’s pretty much all horrendously outdated bitching about superficial flaws in tools from 40 years ago.
All the worse that Debian has both useradd and adduser. I never remember which is the one I want. And in Redhat-derivatives it’s something even more confusing.
The only thing I ever want to do is add a user to a group, is that too much to ask?
No. “Print working directory” is the command to print (display) the “cwd” (current working directory).
8·22 days agoIsn’t nfs pretty much completely insecure unless you turn on nfs4 with Kerberos? The fact that that is such a pain in the ass is what keeps me from it. It is fine for read-only though.
It’s clearly intended to be “git tea” given its little cute signin page, “git with a cup of tea”.
But yeah my boss calls it like “git taya” and I feel like an idiot trying to say “gitty”[-up!]
It’s [edit: _inspired by_although that explanation feels pretty lame to me] Esperanto. The correct spelling should be “Forĝejo”.
Pronunciation is like the English word “forge”. J is pronounced like English “Y”, so “ejo” is a-yo.
IPA: fɔɹd͡ʒejo.
The problem with Libreoffice is that they are satisfied with being a second-rate clone of the baroque mess that is Office 2007.
Google Docs is the last thing to push the Word Processor forward, kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
I’m pretty sure there’s a viable solution in the git +markdown+latex space but no one has quite found it yet. LyX is close-ish but misses the mark.
Their music went to shit after the Black Album and they’ve been desperately trying to be relevant ever since.
I don’t know anything about what you’re saying but I appreciate your use of alternative chæracters
It’s definitely a thing.
5·5 months agoOnly office is basically the same interface again, all cloning MS-office 2007-2010.
Bleach.
As a sometimes Windows admin, I completely agree. Plus so many things that become simple one-liners instead of taking forever farting around in a GUI tool where a little misclick screws up everything and documentation requires 27 pages of giant screenshots.
That’s good to know. It’s interesting that the other commenter thinks emacs shortcuts are illogical. I’ll make my best guesses at the logic
- ctrl-a/ctrl-e for start/end of line
a is the beginning of the alphabet; e for end (of line)
- ctrl-u to clear the command you’ve typed so far but store it into a temporary pastebuffer
- ctrl-y to paste the ctrl-u’d command
No idea here. Seems similar to nano with k-“cut” and u-”uncut”.
- ctrl-w to delete by word
w for word obviously.
- ctrl-r to search your command history
- alt-b/alt-f to move cursor back/forwards by word
r reverse, b back, f forward. Not sure why alt vs control though; presumably ctrl+b and ctrl+f do different things although I know emacs likes to use Alt (“Meta”) a lot.
If you or someone you know wants a taste of that experience on Windows, try out winget or chocolatey.
It seems only natural…
Anecdotal example: just yesterday I found out that I broke my file picker function in five out of six web browsers, by loading an Xcompose file with some definitions that GTK apparently doesn’t like. It took me about 5 hours of poking at things to figure out that a change I did a week ago, broke a function I hardly ever use. So I did fix it eventually but I it took me a week to notice and then hours to track down what was going on.
Is there any chance at all that the casual users would be using a compose key, let alone loading a custom definition file for it? Hell no!
But here’s the secret: there is nobody out there who is the perfect expert who never makes a mistake and knows all things. We’re all out here pushing boundaries; the only difference is where those boundaries are.