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by opk 1y ago
It's just a shell prompt. There really won't be much in the way of bugs. And it's popular. Doing a quick scan of github issues, there's no shortage of questions where some other random plugin or weird terminal emulator h
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by opk 1y ago
> If zsh has its completion fully configured by default, there will be no need for most people to turn knobs nor will it be a "half decent shell." It'll be the best shell, if it isn't already. The curse of backward co
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by opk 1y ago
If you've only compared against zsh's out-of-the-box completion then you're comparing against the fully backward compatible with how things were in 1993 state. Turn on compinit, and a half-dozen styles to enable descriptions
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by opk 1y ago
I'd be rather skeptical about the "fix" of updating the completion cache once a day only. Enabling oh-my-zsh already runs `compinit` and it does so after changing the function path in `fpath`. By running it again with a diffe
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by opk 2y ago
Has anyone actually got this llama stuff to be usable on even moderate hardware? I find it just crashes because it doesn't find enough RAM. I've got 2G of VRAM on an AMD graphics card and 16G of system RAM and that doesn't se
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by opk 2y ago
This article implies that you have to use NAT with Wireguard which really isn't the case at all. Normal subnet routing works fine provided your destination hosts know to use the wireguard server as the gateway for the wireguard subnet.
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by opk 2y ago
This really looks quite useful. Pity it doesn't do RSS feeds as that'd be an easier way to follow projects.
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by opk 2y ago
I've always found the fact that zsh copes with NUL characters in variables etc to be really useful. I can see why this approach makes sense for OpenBSD but they can't prevent NULs appearing in certain places like piped input.
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by opk 2y ago
When I was studying in the late 80s / early 90s, the text books contrasted the "old" waterfall approach with the more "modern" iterative approach. That was long before Agile or whatever had been invented and recogni
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by opk 3y ago
We use Oracle Linux where I work because we used to use Solaris. At one point it looked suspiciously like Redhat had explicitly removed support for some Oracle hardware from their kernel and the UEK saved us. Besides the kernel they also of
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by opk 3y ago
If you want to grant particular systemctl start/stops to normal users, that can be done with policykit,
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by opk 3y ago
You can do `zfs set copies=2` for a ZFS dataset if you think there's value in the extra copies. That's better than a copy of the file because with a single bad block, the checksum will fail and ZFS will retrieve the data from the
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by opk 3y ago
My workplace has been using ZFS for years. I've yet to see an alternative come close to being compelling. We use OpenZFS on all our RHEL servers and even workstations with XFS for root partitions and smaller clients. Our primary file s
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by opk 3y ago
Maybe salaries are crazy in Silicon Valley, but in Europe I really don't see this. I got a decent starting salary 25 years ago but having remained in a technical role I've never got more than minimal pay rises. I now earn way less
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by opk 4y ago
Letters she sent were decoded at the time. The evidence leading to her being executed was largely based on that. It is a simple substitution cipher so vulnerable to letter frequency analysis. So the article title is either misunderstanding
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by opk 4y ago
Companies are always finding ways to justify lacks of pay rise. The company I was working for got acquired by a much bigger company with all these complex procedures in place and they intentionally allocated all the acquired employees much
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by opk 4y ago
I assume the author is realigning to get only one bit for each letter. This relies on having an alphabet of 26 characters where 26 is less than the 32 available in a u32. In most real-world problems, you need to allow for the full ASCII or
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by opk 4y ago
What this shows is that a lot of people don't use bookmarks but simply search for things every time. Google probably tries to nudge people in this direction because it is better for the ad business.
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by opk 4y ago
I long ago concluded that trying to line stuff up in columns like this in code is a mistake. It often results in realignment of blocks for small changes so what should be a small diff in the git history ends up being big. Only rarely is the
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by opk 4y ago
Many things are similar. What differences bother a particular user will vary. In many cases, zsh's approach is better so the value of crippling it is questionable. A common example is not splitting variables at spaces which is much bet
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by opk 4y ago
The shell's defaults are conservative because when you change the defaults you change the setup of many existing users. So unconfigured, the shells feel much the same as they did thirty years ago. There can be other reasons for wanting
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by opk 4y ago
Even with Java 1.4 the obvious mapping of class diagrams to data structures made for terrible data structures. You end up with an interconnected maze of objects that is totally inefficient for the algorithms. The mess typically included red
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by opk 4y ago
Seems like a nice idea but choosing recipients based on popularity is not going to reach the most deserving. Of the nominees, they should cut it down to those who are doing open source as a spare time hobby. Preferably those who have mainta
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by opk 4y ago
I migrated to mblaze after many years with MH and nmh, mostly because the Maildir backend allowed me to serve mail out as IMAP to have access from a mobile. Some things it does much better like threading but I still use parts of nmh where i
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by opk 4y ago
If you need to see the output of commands and tasks in ansible, select a different output callback. Where I want something rudimentary, I use `ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=json` and a tool like github.com/okapia/ansible-json-monitor to
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Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell(klarasystems.com)
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by opk 4y ago
On raw defaults, I find it hard to see that you can do anything with either bash or zsh where the shell itself does anything where you can even notice a delay. Things like basic file completion or history searching are basically instant. Fo
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by opk 4y ago
Unfortunately, it doesn't get you most features out of zsh. It leaves a lot disabled too. It turns on the included completions, adds flashy prompt themes and a pile of aliases that you still need to learn if you want to get any benefit
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by opk 4y ago
The basic unit on which shell scripts build is external commands. If what you want to do is to tie a few together, it is by far the best tool. For the type of programming problem where you need data structures it is indeed awful. But things
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by opk 5y ago
I always use the Europass format. For an IT sysadmin job, it's not like I'm trying to prove that I know how to use a basic word processor. Or demonstrate the type of artistic design skills that go into coming up with my own format

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