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Ephera

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  • Is it maybe a burying instinct, like they have with their poop? The carpet might seem more like grass or lose ground, where it is possible to bury it. You don't really want the puke rotting away on the stone ground of your lion's den, do ya?

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  • That is a good tip. Unfortunately, I am too fish to understand it. 🙃

    I just type ps and in 9 out of 10 cases, my shell suggests ps -ef | grep <process-name>. So, it's actually less for me to type than "pgrep"...

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  • Ah, that was a brainfart. I do use pkill primarily. I just use the other command, when I'm not sure what the process is called...

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  • Well, as was already said, tooltips don't work on mobile, at least not unless you write custom code.

    And I've seen concepts for various marquee solutions, which attempted to fix the problem of the text start not always being readable, by e.g. only making the marquee scroll once after you click on it.If you enjoy these marquee solutions, then more power to you, but the need for custom code is what keeps me away again.

    Just making it horizontally scrollable is a beautifully simple solution in comparison.

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  • Yeah, I especially don't understand it here, because it's a graphical tool. You don't have to keep backwards compatibility.

    Even if you're worried about people depending on the format that's being piped, you could keep only the piped format stable. We have the technology.

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  • Yeah, I would often just grab htop because I had no idea how to read the CPU usage out of top.For example, for me it says:

     
        
%Cpu(s):  0,4 us,  0,4 sy,  0,0 ni, 98,8 id,  0,0 wa,  0,3 hi,  0,0 si,  0,0 st

    Now that I look at it, I can guess that us and sy are supposed to be user and system time. And I guess id is supposed to be idle.I have no guess what the other numbers might be, though. And well, I would often like to see the CPU usage per core.Now I know that I can just press 1t and get effectively the same view as in htop.

    I might learn top's filtering workflow, too. But so far, I always killed processes with ps -ef | grep <process-name> and then kill <pid>, which isn't particularly more cumbersome, so will see...

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  • It's probably supposed to make it more hip and personal. And the frequent complaints about misunderstandings are free marketing.

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  • On a related note, one of my coding side-projects is a web music player. And I had the problem that fitting the song, album and artist names into a layout is tricky, because they can be very long.And yeah, then I realized that <marquee/> is actually a valid solution for that. Lots of music players do use a marquee-style display, when the length exceeds the available space.

    Alas, it still isn't actually a good solution. Marquees make sense as signs, but not for an interactive UI. It's pretty much always a better UX, when you just make it horizontally scrollable, so that the user can read the start and scroll, if they want to read the rest.

  • Modern climate change is 27x faster than historic global warming mass extinction events

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  • I also like the comparison xkcd did, since the last ice age: https://xkcd.com/1732/

    You do have some bends over time, but it just goes horizontal at the end...

  • Do you actually read documentation, or just search it when you’re stuck?

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  • Damn, even when I don't mention it, it's apparently obvious that I'm gushing about Rust. 😅

    I had the Rust CLI Book in mind: https://rust-cli.github.io/book/index.htmlEspecially, if you have experience in another language already, the first chapter shows you how to develop and ship a useful Rust application in a short amount of time. And then the second chapter contains all the detail information, which you might need, after you've run off and started building your own thing.

    But yes, Rust By Example is also really great. It happens a lot that you search "xyz in Rust" and it's one of the first results, and always worth clicking on.

  • TIL humans are using 1.8 Earths worth of resources

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  • I think, it doesn't include resources that we don't deem renewable in the first place? So, coal, gas, uranium etc. will just run out in the not-too-distant future and that is a problem, but a separate problem.

  • Do you actually read documentation, or just search it when you’re stuck?

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  • I see the value in reading documentation front-to-back for picking up all the little tidbits of information (or at least knowing where they're documented), but yeah, ultimately I need to be building something to really process the information.

    Kind of my sweetspot is documentation that makes you build along, but doesn't overstay its welcome. As in, don't cram all the details along the way, but rather just dish out important information on rapidfire.I will run off building my own thing in the middle of the tutorial, if that isn't the case, whether I want to or not. As soon as it's quicker to learn by dicking around with the code, I will do that and then I've spoiled future chapters, so likely won't return.

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  • What terminal emulator are you using where ctrl-c copies instead of sending SIGINT when text is selected?

    I know that the terminal emulator built into the JetBrains IDEs works that way...

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  • Well, and the other joke is that it's a department that tries to predict crimes before they happen. If they're "successful" and the arrest happens beforehand, then the crime never happens and they're locking up an innocent person.

  • Can Linux save this tiny laptop from 2010

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  • Not sure about video playback, but I feel like the PeerTube website is much more efficient. The YouTube website is amazingly badly coded...

  • YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice

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  • Dried lentils don’t need to be pre-soaked, but I prefer to cook them separately and drain the water they boil in.

    Pre-soaking lentils (and pouring the water away) makes them easier to digest, in particular it makes them bloat you less.

    https://farmhouseguide.com/benefits-of-soaking-lentils/

    An exception are dehulled lentils, like red lentils. They don't need pre-soaking and are quicker to cook, too. I often throw red lentils into the cooking water with my noodles or rice, just to add some protein into the meal.

  • Why do some people fork repos but make no changes to them?

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  • You generally have to fork to create a PR...

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  • What also surprised me is that the speed difference depending on medium is actually quite substantial. For example, glass has a refractive index of about 1.5.

    So, the speed of light in glass is c/1.5 ≈ 200.000 km/s, i.e. 66% of the speed of light in vacuum.