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I’m afraid I’ll get less careful as I gain experience and my comfort level increases.

This is exactly what happens! Or maybe one day you’re just extra tired or something. Mistakes happen. That’s a huge reason backups are so important, even in professional settings. Humans make honest mistakes, and that’s ok.

That’s actually why I like the knife analogy, because if you’re using a sharp knife, eventually you might get a cut. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be using the sharp knife (oftentimes you have to!), it’s just important to remember that it’s sharp. And to not blame yourself too much if you do get cut.

I tried to do everything I could to delete it normally, but it wouldn’t let me. In hindsight I wonder if rsync gave the ownership of the backup to the root or something…

Oh if I remember correctly, rsync needs an argument to keep ownership! You have to run it as root, but -o will keep owners and -g will keep groups. -a does both and also keeps permissions.

As an aside, just to confirm, people talk about trying not to use rm -rf but that was the right thing to use! You don’t want to confirm “yes, delete that file” every time.

It makes a lot of sense that they would.

Especially since I believe other major social media companies (Facebook; the service formerly known as Twitter) don’t care at all about bots and seem to want to use them as valid replacements for swathes of users or content generators.

Your rm -rf reminded me of one of my mistakes.

I know everyone’s probably already heard about stories like this, but one terrifying mistake I made in college was a fat-fingered rm -rf / home/whatever.

I didn’t notice the space before hitting enter, so it started happily deleting system files from /.

I killed it pretty quickly, and then was able to re-download the files I accidentally deleted by hand, one by one, while the computer was running. It felt like I was changing a tire of a car while it was driving.

So I try to think of that kind of thing as a sharp knife. Cut carefully.

Doesn’t mean I didn’t also delete an entire customer database a few years later but at least that one was backed up! Horrible feeling. lol

The stickers don’t actually work super well unless you cover your windows with them.

According to the Audubon society:

Window decals may help, but they must be placed no more than 2-4 inches apart in order to be effective. Birds will try to fly through larger gaps. This means that on large windows, many closely spaced decals may be necessary to deter bird collisions.

4 inches is about 10cm

There are more tips in the article but stickers don’t help nearly as much as people want them to.

There are companies that are experimenting with whole window films, but when I looked a bit ago they didn’t seem to be widely available to consumers.

Have you tried tagspaces? It’s not primarily an editor (from what I can tell) but if you want to split file editing from grouping/tagging, it might be worth a shot.

I haven’t tried it but I will, because I really like ways to organize files that don’t require actually changing the files themselves!

Sometimes solving the problems separately (organizing and editing) can be better for specific purposes. on a computer with a keyboard, I like an editor that just edits.

I love that there’s always a new crop of suckers.

We look for people who are like Olympian athletes, with characteristics of, you know, obsession, infinite ambition.

“It’s people who want to do incredible things and have a lot of fun while doing so,” he says.

They must be building something really important!

The website belongs to Rilla, a New York-based tech business which sells AI-based systems that allow employers to monitor sales representatives when they are out and about, interacting with clients.

🤣 so fucking embarrassing! Are you “disrupting” sales, douchebag? What year is this?