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Incredibly true for me these days. But don’t fret, shellcheck and tldp.org is all you need. And maybe that one stackoverflow answer about how to get the running script’s directory

This one is my bookmark

https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html

Everybody has a test environment, but some people also have a seperate production environment

What’s the guarantee that the build process you see generated the binaries you’re downloading?

Hygge me baby

These days my most common action is to “hide” or “block” random posts that are in my feed from pages or groups I’ve never heard of. Blocking ads is more steps but I still do that for particularly egregious crap getting pushed on me.

Because I want to?

Easy solution, no comments! Plus then you have a fun puzzle you can figure out over and over again

As I’ve matured in my career, I write more and more bash. It is absolutely appropriate for production in the right scenarios. Just make sure the people who might have to maintain it in the future won’t come knocking down your door with torches and pitchforks…

Fuck I was so disappointed and ashamed reading that in the election results

It’s been a long time since I’ve had to deal with text rendering, so forgive me if this question is silly or uses wrong terminology:

Are the unicode LTR/RTL markers part of the filename or is the display layer supposed to figure it out by the codepoints used?

I wonder if they had “cool and good, actually” as a possible response. That’s the one for me

Maybe he’ll get the “boys being boys” case dismissal

Are you advocating torture?

Probably object storage, like s3 or similar

Hello, customer support?..Yes, air strike on my location, thank you

Not only making things available to the masses, I think “democratizing” would be a better word for that intent.

“Weaponizing” something like this specifically has a connotation of danger or harm to some (unspecified) target.

In this context of copy/pasting stackoverflow answers without understanding them (a practice Considered Harmful), it was previously something that required intent to do. Now your editor will instantly suggest solutions to you and all you have to do is press the tab key to accept unknown lines of code.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.

Now Even Faster™ with no exceptions thanks to “AI”

If the top level comment is by a blocked user, you won’t see the rest of the comment tree either