I'm trying to figure out why some older systems I have (bash 4.3.30) work a little differently to some with newer bash (5.1.8, say).
The difference is in what characters constitute a word boundary for the "(vi-)unix-word-rubout" readline function, which is what happens when you press Ctrl-W by default.
On newer systems, it does what I want: removes _up to the last path separator_. On older systems it removes the whole path, not stopping at "/" -- and then I punch the computer.
Whhhhhhy?!
PSA: This is how you write a call to action:
"Vote, and vote for Biden, or you will be living in a fascist dictatorship. Even if you think Biden sucks, not voting for him makes it more likely that Trump will win."
1: action, 2: reason, 3: explanation.
Literally *everybody* who will see your post already agrees that Trump should not be president. But some of them *might* still have stupid ideas about the whole voting thing.
Didn't realize my wireless plan capped tethering speeds, but now it makes sense. When your phone gets ~10-15 mbps and your tethered computer gets .5 or .6 consistently, you know they're screwing w/ the service you paid for.
Welp, I'm ashamed it took me this long to realize, but changing the TTL on my computer seems to have released the throttling.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/cmxp66/2019_bypass_verizon_hotspot_throttle_no_root/
Another incredibly thoughtful post charting a potential direction for some—let’s say—inconsistent aspects of Rust. Beyond the content, I find the clarity, history, and introspection to be a model for how to articulate and advocate technical direction https://without.boats/blog/a-four-year-plan/
@thomasfuchs Watching people rediscover once a year that GitHub is trash is getting to be like watching people regularly rediscover that Uber is trash. "This time they have gone too far!" https://jwz.org/b/yjBL
We are proud to announce the latest stable release of OmniOS - r151048. https://omnios.org/article/r48
silicon valley VCs' best ideas of the 2020s:
-put a drone on something
-wrongness generator 3000 (uses more energy than a small nation)
-fraud
-space pollution
-self-crashing cars
-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in another country
-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in this country
-fascism
-vrchat but it cost 20x to make and it fucking sucks
-layoffs
@dexter fun example of never causing problems: a very high end Dell model, despite setting the BMC to its dedicated port, still triggers STP on the main network switch for those two ports.
I rarely use onboard NICs as result. (RIP Sun Fire. Long live @oxidecomputer )
A discussion at work about HTTP status codes reminded me of this gem.
Engineer. UNIX person. Australian-American. Member of illumos core team. Building a new machine at Oxide Computer Company!