The depth of a dive is always delightful! Does K8s have a solid use-case for the project or did you just sK8 for fun?
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Round two, hell yeah.
The aesthetica of a stack of notes, born from a "dead end", is secretly an odd motivator. You look back and see
Here is the breadth of what we did wrong.
and then beyond you, the effort lays itself out in a pretty trusswork.
_or_maybe_i_just_think_well-used_notebooks_are_pretty
Hah, stochastic parrots.
Makes me wonder. Every laziness I've had with the vector guessers, I've seen an exact counterweight.
One, you can invoke more often (throw ChatGPT configs against the wall until it doesn't error); the other you can invoke more deeply. So I can't help but wonder -- when we cancel out all the terms -- if the timesaving sum is positive or negative. ¯(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, it's pretty funny how distros just passed each other by like that. Back then it was Debian that was regarded as the hyper-poweruser distro:
The reason I havn't used Debian is because I can't install it. "This guy is totally clueless" you might think. My only response is that I'm writing this on a Gentoo box that I have installed myself.
And then now there are plenty of people reading this thread who liked Windows 7. As time passed, their grade on the ease-of-use of A passed the don't-get-in-my-way of B, and a load of Windows 10ers jumped ship to Linus & Friends, the last place their Windows 7 selves would have expected to go. Always a reminder that the end of history isn't now.
Bending the question a little but my second "first impression" of Arch's "simplicity" surprised me the most.
I was running Gentoo for a while before deciding to move back, and I was surprised that somehow I had
- saved space
- gotten faster at doing new things (...)
- didn't lose any boot speed or anything like that
Granted, I had jumped on Gentoo because of misconceptions (speed, ricing, the idea that I needed USE flags), but going back, I saw things more clearly:
- the AUR being basically a shell script download + 300 MB of base-devel was simpler and more space-efficient than /var/db/repos (IIRC -- since the portage and guru ebuilds were all held locally anyway after syncing, an on-demand AUR saved space).
- the simple automatic build file audits on Arch felt more clean to me. I like checking my build files; had to make a script for the guru ebuild equivalent (but maybe there's a portage arg i missed somewhere -- wouldn't be the first time)
- Arch repos separating parts of packages in case you don't need some part (like splitting some font into its languages, or splitting a package into x and x-doc and x-perl) was almost a simple USE flag-ish thing already
- /etc/makepkg.conf was Gentoo's make.conf. And its build flags looked similar to the CFLAGS I manually set up anyway.
- My boot time (btrfs inside LUKS with encrypted /boot) was the same with systemd vs. openrc
- I realized I liked systemd (because of the completeness of my systemctl muscle memory, like with
systemctl statusandjournalctl, or managingsystemd-logindinstead of usingseatdand friends).
Not bashing on Gentoo or anything, but it's when I realized why Arch was "simple." Even me sorely missing
/etc/portage/patcheswas quelled byparu -S <pkg> --fm vim --savechanges.And Arch traveling at the speed of simplicity even quantifiably helped: Had to download
aur/teamsthe other day with nine-minute warning.¯(ツ)_/¯
Successful GitHub pulls are rare; more often, patches live like this. You're better off contacting the maintainer of the subsystem you're editing. See the official submission guide.
Not to be dejecting!
Fun investigations (
tacandfactor), things I never bothered to check the existence of until now (install -s), and fundamentals I glossed over ([). Pretty fun read.And of course,
And that's why the '$cmd' command is my favourite Linux command.
Stunningly simple, solely a shift. I love MVPs... we can possibly even remove the
-Pcompletion func switch :P
I think I disagree with a lot of the comments here. The "trying to sound smart" feeling only really occurs when there's a mismatch in decorum -- someone is trying to appear Higher and More Logical -- but that can happen with any word, especially adverbs.
"Technically" is a useless crutch word (techy!), and "fallacious" is hella overused outside of formal logic stuff, so here it's a mismatch in decorum. (What's the fallacy? Does the other just... disagree with you, or are you using a converse error like A implies B, therefore B implies A?)
A lot of crutch words are just innocent habits, too. masterspace@lemmy.ca mentioned something like that... though there are always people who up their jargon levels for no reason other than To Be More L33t. and_screw_irregardless
On the other hand, some words commented here are needed. For example, if a reviewer calls Grossman's The Magicians "erudite", it fits perfectly -- the book
uses a metaphor for an archetypal Harvard. In one word we sum up the cloistered, elite, difficult, rich, status-chasing-ness combined with sophistication the metaphor entails.
Continuing on that feeling of summed-up-in-one-word-ness -- what alternatives do we really have for "whataboutism" or the "algorithm" or "milquetoast"? Those words hit hard, they sum things up.
Those words are concise, they roll off the tongue and evoke feeling! Don't shorten words just to sound more colloquial when you have a choice that really fits! And likewise, equally -- don't be grandiloquent just for the sake of it.
Or else you'll face floccinaucinihilipilification :3