Was this kind of shell changing disabled? Maybe there’s no way of doing that exec automatically? Is there some advantage to having your shell of choice explicitly listed in /etc/passwd?
If you just want to execute it then it is a footgun - using only the !command syntax.
If you use the !command:p syntax then you are just printing what command has been executed instead of invoking it.
Example.
% uname
FreeBSD
% !uname
uname
FreeBSD
% !uname:p
uname
%I imagine that how it worked for them before is that the up arrow would move the cursor to the previous line into the output of the previous command, while feeding the arrow key escape sequences to the shell prompt as part of the command. IOW, a pretty useless and annoying key right? Why even press it? How did they notice readline?
He also noticed that if you ran 9 "yes" commands on a 8 core machine, the CPU wasn't allocated in 8/9ths units (one process always got a lot less CPU). he was used to much more predictible CPU scheduler on multiprocessor systems (spoilt by TruCluster). Linux later adopted a better scheduler (fair share) so imho he was right on that one, even if "yes" is a terribly performance metric.
For the record, I see this kind of behavior all the time on HN.. I don't always call it out but occasionally. I always get downvoted, which doesn't surprise me, but it's the right thing to make people aware of these subtle behavior patterns that many women have told me makes them reconsider their field.
It's worth calling out occasionally, such as correcting when the preferred pronoun is known to you, but otherwise it usually just details discussions.
You're about 40 years late for that debate.
For a guy growing around computers it has also been pretty lonely, more girls would have been welcome at any stage...
I don't think I would tell someone what they "should" know. That 'knowledge' seems like an unlikely possibility: I think it probable that significant discrimination against women in tech will (very unfortunately) continue for another generation, at least. One signal to me is that many reject it in every way: Denial, anger, etc.
I would say there is no significant discrimination of women in tech
I would say that there is a significant lack of interest of women for tech
If anything there is positive discrimination in hiring for example, my manager already said if there are men and women applying, women will have the advantage. I guess they always had, it is just they are/were very fewer compared to men. Other example is my previous manager always available and keen to help the female colleagues, and busy for the male
The only thing you could point out would be biased education even though women outperform men in all areas from basic to university, which gives them more choice
And who can blame anyone, the majority of IT/Dev jobs are booring. Fill your head with technical knowledge, that in a couple of years is completely useless. Looks cool but useless. If I had the opportunity and and reasonable salary I would definitely change for something more in the areas of history philosophy politics...
Regardless of your philosophy, the constant presumption of male hood is all over on HN if you're sensitive to watch for it. I don't know what your philosophy is, but the pattern absolutely is difficult for some people. So whether you ascribe to it or not, it is emblematic of the male-dominated culture that makes CS less appealing to women.
Note that I've worked for multiple very successful computer scientist women. They have no tolerance for folks who sit around and complain about the unfairness. It's clear their confidence, ego, and drive, allowed them to succeed.
I slipped when I said he in the second comment. I normally prefer to not state the gender of people (to avoid the presumption of malehood) but I don't think it's as dire as you make out.
To make sure I read it right: I don't think you're suggesting that there are proportionally many non-male computer scientists, just that you've known a few.
> They have no tolerance for folks who sit around and complain about the unfairness. It's clear their confidence, ego, and drive, allowed them to succeed.
Isn't that a baseless insult? People can point out problems without 'sitting around', and they can 'sit around' without pointing out problems, and in fact the latter seems more likely to me: people who want to 'sit around' don't act in ways that create more emotional stress and work for themselves, and that threaten their employment. It's also a common response to shut down people who have legitimate concerns: Attack them, change the subject to them.
Accepting your characterization of these women you worked for, perhaps they are selected for those characteristics, because others could not survive. Many women have quietly endured discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual assault as the only way to survive in their careers; look at the movie industry, for example. If your industry is selecting for 'success' like that, then there is something morally wrong (and you are losing a lot of talent). Discrimination, harassment, and assault should be stopped, and if someone points out that it's happening, that helps.
Also, many men succeed in tech without exceptional confidence, ego, and drive. The standard should be the same for non-men (just imagine being non-binary in tech).
> I think this is an overly negative attitude.
Why don't we see what women in tech think? Why talk about them in the third person? Probably because there are very few here on HN. Is that coincidence?
EDIT: Slight rewording, to minimize inflammation
In either case, whether or not their perspective is to want to make room for others doesn't mean that all women feel that way. I've had quite a few talk about this exact kind of experience including former mentors and managers of mine (I've also been lucky to work for some kick ass women). They tell me that they have to prove even more, dress/act more masculine, etc to be taken seriously. This isn't just one woman who has told me this either. This is quite a few over a 15 year period.
Staying gender neutral is an easy way to create room and make it feel less skewed, especially when the context is a senior leader (aka glass ceiling). I know you did with your original they, so I'm talking more generally here rather than this specific instance. The last year has had an outpouring of people's experiences being different in all these respects, and stories in business are easy to find. This week is also the Society of Women Engineer's conference where there's talks on navigating these kinds of environments. Perhaps you might find it interesting to attend and hear. It's available virtually.
I'm not making this out to be dire.. it's quite minor. But that doesn't mean minor things don't add up when you're an outsider. Being a gay man, I've seen that change in language over time to be less presumptive. I don't get offended when people ask about my wife (they'd be right the majority of the time!), but it is nice when people make room for my spouse to not be female.
This appears to me to make the opposite point that you think it does.
Your observation of a small number of successful women in computer science who aren't bothered by gender bias is entirely consistent with hordes of other women who've been chased away. This is a classic case of Survivorship Bias:
so, even when speaking english, i still, sometimes, use he as the the neutral pronoun (like calling an unknown user him).
what i mean is: your type of comment is actually quite weird. you don't know the person you are replying to. you don't know if english is their first, second, third or fourth language.
also, people make mistakes and instead of trying to catch someone in a "GOTCHA" moment, it's better to just ignore it.
I'd be sad to see an educated person refuse interesting new tricks (readline causes no regression or loss right ?)
If the tools such as base environment changes way too often, I'd be annoyed as well - not because I don't know how to make the colours go away or set up the proper aliases - but the fact that I need to do it and pause my actual work.
But I considered readline a good addition, not a waste of time and neurons.
ps: I stopped using zsh/fish, my emacs theme is the vanilla theme.. you forget about these 'improvements', for real tasks they don't matter.
But as you say, tools must get out of the way...
At this point I don't want to learn any new tricks, either. I'm sticking with bash for the rest of my life.
A lot of times people would be a lot more receptive if you show them "hey, you can use the up arrow like so if you want!" Then they can choose and adapt at their own pace if they want to, and they're in control of their own systems.
It's closer to BSD than it is to Linux. Not super similar, but closer, especially in ways one tends to notice on the command line.
I've used freebsd for years and I still find Mac OS to be the least useful UNIX.
Further, unless I'm missing an important technical detail, Linux could, with some effort, pass the certification process.
I'm quite shocked
I'm not 20 something either, I'm not chasing new shiny.. but a simple history access (arrows or search) is not an invasive disruptive toy feature..
alas
I explained how to disable readline