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The flooding the article is talking about is relatively recent so the disaster aspect is real. It catches people by surprise. But when the flood has been there since time immemorial, people find ways to adapt and stop treating it as a disaster.
Where I live, houses are built on the water, even today. Poles are driven in the bottom, and you build on top. For streets, they pour shit ton of rubble to displace the water, then put tarmac on top. In the past, there were almost no roads at all, people moved around in boats. You want to buy food - you go with your boat to the "local market", which is just a bunch of other boats with sellers.
It affects the language as well. Since your house is high above water, you don't say "I'm going out", you say "I'm going down" - because you have to go down the stairs and into your boat. When you invite guests in, you say "Please, come up!", as if you are in a tree house :) This wording is used even today, when most houses are at ground level.
When you order food where you can choose the protein part yourself, the seller asks you "What [kind of] fish?", and you can say "eggs", or "chicken breast"! Historically, since most of the meat available was various kinds of fish, this was the established expression, and it has stuck to this day.
Menus are not meant to be torn around.
Yeah, they are meant to be implemented with web technologies and look like shit.
BTW, this tear-off style is probably quite old. Long ago, I used an early version of ANSYS (for Windows) which apparently was still close to its Unix original, and it had its menus pop up like real windows, with close buttons! They were nicely cascaded, but one could rearrange them.
> MEAT. FISH.
That's some Edward Bernays-level trickery right there. /s
An early form of birth control in my home country was naming your baby Enough (Dosta). Not very efficient, obviously.
edit: it seems this was mostly used for breaking a streak of female babies (the name is feminine). but also in general.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neglected_tropical_diseases#Ec...
In Indonesia for one they are. Every night, countless geckos come out, both indoors and outdoors, and start hunting for mosquitoes. Even lullabies sing about it [1].
The above song is so popular that it got an AI parody [2].
I'm curious what food chain reaction this will start if successful.
He would walk around the streets all day, yelling, and swinging fists exactly when someone passes by him.
People from the neighborhood know him, and are not afraid. He never actually hits anybody, no matter how near his fists come to you.
One day, I saw the guy passing near the photo studio in my building, and the fake Santa that works there said something to him. Our crazy guy stopped and they had a conversation. I was passing by, and from the little I overheard he sounded like a completely normal person. Totally not matching his everyday crazy behavior.
I have no idea what made this transformation possible. My theory is that the Santa guy was probably a neighbor of his, and knew him from before he went crazy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease#Dietary_challe...
In my country, despite voicemail being available since the introduction of mobile phones decades ago, I am yet to hear of a single instance of anybody actually leaving a message.
Same case for vi - the : key was in a different place, and no shift necessary[2].
Nowadays, I use a bespoke layout which solves the above two problems, among others. My number row is inverted, so parentheses become lower case, and I put the colon key next to 0 and Enter next to P.
#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 1
#include <old-man-shouting-at-clouds.h>This reminds me of a story from a past job. I have to get it out of my system.
There was this bearded sysadmin guy who was very proud of his "15 years of experience", and was quick to scold us new employees for every little thing he could.
He used vim, and every now and then would say that it's a good editor, but kinda "unstable". Crashed a lot, he said.
You probably know where this is going.
One day, one of us sat next to him and discovered many suspended vim jobs in his shell (this was the kind of guy that doesn't power off his computer).
He was fat-fingering C-z all the time, and has never heard of job control - bg, fg, etc.
15 years of experience.
When a commit is "selected" (at the top line of the screen), usually after a series of n/N, I can press a shortcut that invokes an action on this commit.
Currently, I use it for two things:
1. Running git-show on a commit I'm interested in. The cool thing is that once I quit the git-show's less, I'm back to where I was in git-log's less. They stack.
2. fixup-ing a commit, after verifying with the command from 1. that it really is the one I want. I've had enough problems with git-absorb and git-fixup that I prefer to do it myself.
I detect when a particular command is running[1] and set up keyboard shortcuts that send key sequences to less and ultimately lead to the top line of the screen being piped to a short script of mine that extracts the commit hash and does something with it.
[1]: via a debug trap in bash, which sets the terminal title, which, in turn, is detected by keyd-application-mapper; other setups are possible, I used to use tmux for that.
C-z is not processed by the shell but by the terminal "infrastructure".
You can disable it, or change the key binding, and a lot more, with stty(1).
> it actually feels UNIXy. It feels like home.
They use single dashes for long options.
This is not home.
TFA> Another reason to use it is this turned out to be a surprisingly easy task.
This Makefile is anything but simple. It uses advanced features that are meant for complicated situations, just to create a few symlinks. The same symlinks, every time. And if you introduce a new dotfile to the repo, you have to update the Makefile too.
It also makes no use of the main feature of make(1) - to track files for changes, and update them.
For demonstration, here is the same functionality, in sh(1):
files=$(find files -type f | sed s=^files/==)
echo "$files" | sed s=[^/]*\$== | sort -u | { cd; xargs mkdir -p; }
echo "$files" | xargs -I{} -n1 ln -sf $PWD/files/{} ~/{}
When asked what they do for a living, they said they were programmers.
Then the police officer went:
– Oh, I see. HTML.
Everything sounded very mandatory, but a couple of months later nobody was asking about reports anymore.
> kthxbye is the pinnacle of English's advancement, shortening All correct, Thank you, God be with you. into seven lowercase letters.