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Re:Some Useful Bash Aliases – Chuck Carroll on Monday December 25, 2023 @05:50PM (#38767041)
That's the point. You're not relying on it, it's a safety to save yourself from an unintended glob expansion.
Re:Some Useful Bash Aliases – Chuck Carroll on Monday December 25, 2023 @02:31PM (#38765386)
Do this in important directories for added safety: $ touch -- - i This creates a file called "-i" which will add the interactive flag, prompting you before deleting every file that rm was going to delete.
Stopped reading at the anti-white bs.

I'm pretty sure that if the author had put "black" instead of "white," this article wouldn't have even been linked here. It's fashionable to openly express anti-white bigotry these days.

Would you feel the same if there was a legitimate reason for your stopping (like a person on the road)? The outcome is the same.
Re:Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? on Thursday December 24, 2020 @06:02PM (#25532347)
18 hours is absurd, IMO. I have a Garmin Instinct Solar that gets up to 24 days of battery life without any solar exposure (there's unlimited battery life with enough exposure unless you use GPS a lot). I get notifications for any phone app I want, plus GPS when I need it and a multitude of fitness tracking, including round the clock heart beat monitoring. I can't use it as a phone or send texts (though I can read them) so I guess that's where it "lags" behind the Apple Watch. I think it's the perfect fitness tracker that's also a rugged watch.
Free speech for me but not for thee.
Re:Amazon Dark Patterns on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @11:00AM (#17653687)
Amazon reviews have been shady for years. To combat this I never buy without running the item link through fakespot.com. The other day I also discovered reviewmeta.com t haven't tried it yet.
Re:Show HN: LibreRead 1.0 – Self-Hosted Free Ebook Reader on Monday December 11, 2017 @12:12PM (#15898394)
Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/) is great for converting epub to mobi.
The only "problem" I see is that there's a lot of vc money out there willing to take a long shot.
Water is wet
Thank you, it works now. FYI it took everything I had not to post something snarky ;)
Ironically on that page the "highly recommended" link to https://speedtest.comcast.net/ times out.
I think Peter Griffin said it best. Oh my god, who the hell cares?
Is there a way to get the 2.99 euro price from the US? How about from Canada?
What does a flippant response like this accomplish? Nothing but wasting one's time emailing a recruiter mill. May as well send thought-provoking replies to your email spam.
Re:Hard Core: What Porn's Ubiquity Says About Men and Women on Thursday January 06, 2011 @03:42PM (#2077063)
I'm not sure what the author is trying to say. Just because porn is easier to get now than before (as has been since day 0 of porn), so what? Yet another jee-whiz look at what the internets have done to us article.
Re:My experience at Denny's and three rules for success on Sunday December 26, 2010 @02:50PM (#2041057)
You got exactly what you asked for. You knew something was wrong before you were even seated, then you ignored the "6 other tables" being served before you and continued to sit there waiting for who knows what. You have only yourself to blame for this experience.

Protip: If a restaurant jerks you around, LEAVE.

Re:HN Domain Exchange: Add your unused domains on Friday October 15, 2010 @12:55PM (#1795266)
w0mbat.com. My email is in my profile.
Re:Man jailed over computer password refusal on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @02:19PM (#1760785)
They already have this. You can have two levels of passwords: one for the OS and one for a hidden encrypted partition or encrypted file where you keep your truly sensitive info.