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How’s their delivery schedule? Here in Norway we might be cutting 2-3k jobs in our mail and dropping mail delivery to one day a week (currently it’s every other weekday (yes, that means 3 or 2 days a week alternating)).

That’s getting some … reactions, but honestly I suspect the average Norwegian, receiving one letter in the mail a week, is pretty fine with it.

When I do ls --help|less --raw-control-chars it doesn’t show the control characters, and it looks all neat and pretty. Isn’t this the opposite of how it’s supposed to work?!

You’ve gotten a longer reply to this, but just to make it clear: No, that’s how it’s supposed to work.

• By default less mangles control characters so they can’t do anything to your display (or bell)
• With -R, less will pass some control characters through raw and unmangled; enough to give you stuff like pretty colours
• With -r, less won’t mangle any control characters, which, if you’re doing something stupid like trying to read a binary file, can leave your terminal prompt fucked up and in need of a reset.

You may want to tag your triple-backtick with something like text or plain so you don’t get auto-inferred syntax highlighting. E.g:

 All commands now markup option names in --help and man pages, 

-q controls output for filenames. From ls.c:

/* True means output nongraphic chars in file names as '?'.
   (-q, --hide-control-chars)
   qmark_funny_chars and the quoting style (-Q, --quoting-style=WORD) are
   independent.  The algorithm is: first, obey the quoting style to get a
   string representing the file name;  then, if qmark_funny_chars is set,
   replace all nonprintable chars in that string with '?'.  It's necessary
   to replace nonprintable chars even in quoted strings, because we don't
   want to mess up the terminal if control chars get sent to it, and some
   quoting methods pass through control chars as-is.  */
static bool qmark_funny_chars;

I guess the use of “dropped” rather than “cancelled” is kinda interesting

Imagine if that money had been spent on building out renewables instead

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One local Thai shop had the sense to offer both “$nationality spicy” and “thai spicy”

I find the C type syntax turgid. It’s fine for the most basic types, but the name-in-the-middle style doesn’t scale at all, and it’s not hard to understand why later languages separate name and type, no matter which side of the name the type goes on.

I find Rust easier to read in that regard, even though picking <> for generics was likely done to be familiar for C++/Java types rather than easy to parse. (See also: the bastion of the turbofish)

I guess one inherent weakness in slowly turning the US into not only an oligarchy, but a science-averse gerontocracy is that over the coming decade there’s gonna be a lot of familiar names croaking.

Yeah, my mom grows carrots in a variety of colours, not just the new orange one that’s become so common. Also grows blue potatoes, purple beans and whatnot, because she has more fun with more colourful food.

Dark heirloom tomatoes are pretty neat too.

Who doesn’t? Majority lactose intolerant nations?

Can also second the Crystal Project!

Afaik it’s not released yet, just announced. Drops in October I think. It’s also a reimagining of Brave Exvius, for those who missed it or never played it.

Elliott is allegedly a Zelda-like, which sounds interesting to me, even the Navi is apparently even worse there.

Can also recommend Ara Fell and Rise of the Third Power for a retro jrpg itch.

Speaking of ffxiv, if I had a penny for every MMO trailer with tapestry artwork I’ve seen come out this year, I’d have two pennies, etc

(FFXIV Evercold trailer being the first one)

While I think it’s amazing that not only are 95% of Linux users 56 years of age, but they even share the same birth date!

I work at a Linux-dominant shop. Macs are somewhat common. People with Windows are kind of seen as weirdos.

We don’t use office packages all that much either; more geared towards markdown and git and programming languages. The office package I use the most is Google’s.

I haven’t had a machine with windows on it since Windows ME. I do have some training in windows server from over a decade ago (nearing two maybe?), but I’ve never used the knowledge.

Let’s just say that ME deserved its “Mistake Edition” moniker

Yeah, Ubuntu actually isn’t the first distro without GNU coreutils. Beyond Android and Busybox, there’s also stuff like Talos, which is something like … Kubernetes/Linux.

IME something like Kubernetes/Linux running “distroless” containers have a huge potential to displace traditional GNU/Linux in the server market, and I wouldn’t be surprised if someone manages to build a desktop out of it, either.

It’s even a tape archiving tool. Just pretty much nobody uses it in the original way any more.

Very much one of those “if it ain’t broke, don’t replace it” tools.