Tekhne @ savedbythezsh @sh.itjust.works

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Oops sorry it's &! / is find

less can enter a grep-like mode by hitting /

Edit: it's & for the grep mode, / is search.

Do you mount the lightboxes when you bring it with you? Mine has been languishing in a corner for a year because I have high ceilings in my current apartment and don't feel like going through the trouble to mount them

That's not true! Getting an answer to something doesn't necessarily mean the thing you're asking about is possible. You could ask me how to split myself in half and become two people, and I'd say (within my knowledge) it's impossible. But if you ask me how computers can show a pixel on the screen, I can give you a detailed answer. Either way, I'm answering your question, just perhaps not satisfyingly.

Answer: "you can't." And you just wasted your question!

That's cool! I've never heard of a contronym before.

However the difference is that most of those have different usages - e.g. if you say "I'm going to clip the hedges" vs "I'm going to clip something to the hedges", you have to use the word differently. With "dust", it's different based on the context, because you need to be talking about some sort of powder to be talking about putting something on. If I said "I'm going to dust the furniture", you would assume I meant clean, but if I said "dust the furniture with cleaning powder", you'd probably understand the difference. Different locations and activities also help here (e.g. skiing, cake decorating, cleaning, etc).

Nonplussed on the other hand likely derives its alternate meaning from an incorrect understanding of the original meaning, and so it's used in the exact same manner and context to mean the exact inverse. If I say the sentence "he was nonplussed at the news", which meaning am I referring to?

"Table" is another contronym that's ACTUALLY confusing (learned that one from this post as well).

Beeper mini has been a sad saga to follow :(

I have never heard it used as general acceptance. That really drives me nuts! What good is a word that's self contradictory 😨

Yea

Personally, I would say Richard Stallman has respect for open source software: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html.

Having respect for free (as in "libre") software means caring if the software can sustain its own development, and not just caring if you get it free (as in "gratis"). It's not always viable to support a project on donations and free time the way GNU is. https://xkcd.com/2347/

What's your issue with asdf? It works really well for me

Whoa, super cool! I would love this

Excited to see the Jellyfin UX improving - it's probably the biggest reason I use Plex over Jellyfin (not that Plex is THAT much better...)

Great explainer on the subject: https://youtu.be/lLCDca6dYpA?si=gUJlQJgfDxi-n_Y6

And a follow up on how calculators actually implement this inconsistently: https://youtu.be/4x-BcYCiKCk?si=g5pqwXvBqSS8Q5fX

I tried it in rust last year, made it through like 5 days? It just took too long :(

The only case I use snippets for is for debug code that I use often. Sometimes there are things I find myself doing a lot for debugging that don't have any reason to be in code (e.g. nicely formatting certain objects for debug purposes)

Yeah but it's awful, and can only install UWP apps which are just plain bad

Since I saw !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network, just wanted to let you know about my own !dndmemes@sh.itjust.works (4k subs, but not too many posts lately).

SSH will definitely break, I've had this issue before. If your private key in the .ssh dir is too open, ssh won't let you use it.

I'd like to point out, the value add of Rust isn't speed, it's safety in a low-level language. C is also just as fast, it's just that Rust guarantees safety in a wide class of potential catastrophic bugs with little to no runtime overhead, by using the design of the language and compiler.