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The two commands are not equivalent. sed 11q prints 11 lines whereas head’s default is 10.

Personally I would prefer head -11 in this situation as it more clearly indicates, for the sake of the meme, that something is being removed from the head.

There’s also that head seems to be ever-so-slightly quicker, perhaps proving what we already knew about thinking being quicker than speech.

TL;DR That’s what she sed?

The BeOS command line command set were all borrowed from or based upon Unix and/or Linux (IIRC many were straight from GNU), which is the basis for my comparison.

The kernel and graphics were all from-scratch and radically different from Linux, sure, but the same could be said of Linux when compared to the original Unix, or any of the BSDs.

That looks vaguely like a letter C to the left of the cap, assuming the wheat ear is rotated to be vertical, but I can’t make out anything else quite so clearly.

I also suspect that the oval shape that contained the branding was all a shade of orange or red, not unlike that small area towards the middle.

Reds are among the first colours to bleach, and it may be that something protected that one small area, like maybe the sort of sticky price labels that were once common, so that would explain why there’s not much of it left.

Lasse Gjertsen - Amateur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo

Haiku is what grew out of the ashes of BeOS. And if you’ve never heard of that, you’re no worse off. It was another Unix-alike that was neither Linux nor BSD which showed early promise but didn’t gain enough traction.

Greybeards are an increasingly rare commodity, it seems.

That just means that the lowly, customer-facing peons that work for government offices don’t have access to any such master database.

Most people work for companies that hold information inaccessible to them. Other government databases would definitely be on that list.

You mean to tell me that such a database doesn’t already exist?

CaNaCl sounds like a card game you play with grandma.

Sometimes the only real options are “bad” and “less bad”. An uncomfortable echo of something else we’re all familiar with, perhaps.

This does not mean that we should not criticise the less bad option, only that we should not switch to the the bad option.

Largely because of music recommendations on YouTube: Holiday by Green Day, specifically the intro, and He’s a Pirate, the theme from Pirates of the Caribbean

At the same time. There’s a similar kind of bounce to both of them and I think my brain is trying to cram them in the same bucket.

Black and white 80x25 BIOS text screen with the IBM PC ROM font, not unlike the MS-DOS it sought to replace.

Everything else is fluff on top of that, possibly occupying different graphics planes available in whatever hardware is available.

Yes, technically modern PCs and Linux have moved beyond that 80x25 screen for the most part, but its immediate descendant is still in use, often during boot, but also on Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] on many distros.

There’s an ancient UNIX copypasta that’s basically the plot of this comic, but it’s troublingly hard to find the original online.

Here’s one version I found: http://www.anvari.org/fun/Web_Tina/CREATION.html

I don’t remember “technocrat” being part of the original, but it wouldn’t be the first time my recollection has been wrong.

I caught trouble the other day for saying this. Apparently there are themes for GNOME (even GTK4) that can mitigate the limited colour palette(s). Locked-in window layout choices are a different matter entirely, of course, but we can do something about the colour of them.

$ yes n
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I kind of want to go back in time and make it so that the original yes always printed the first letter of the name it was called by. That way you could symlink any name you like to it and it would do the right thing. Called as no it would print ns, etc. The optional parameter would still be there for longer strings or alternate uses.

The reason time travel would be needed is that there’s bound to be, or have been, someone who has done something weird regarding symlinking yes that relies on it always printing y when it has no parameter, and the name trick would be a breaking change.

And then the LLM says something like “You’re absolutely right, there was an error in that code that is clear and obvious now it has been pointed out and despite the fact you gave the instruction to make no errors. Is there anything else I can help with?”

… and they’ll be too blind to take that as the warning it is and continue to ask even more of the LLM.

Do mine eyes deceive me? Some of those don’t even have the address bar merged with the menu bar and hamburger menu icon… although I can’t tell whether those are just the apps insisting on doing things the tried and tested way.

Nonetheless, I’ll add a note to my original comment.

Edit: The situation is more nuanced than I had been led to believe. This stays for posterity.

Irony. In GTK4 there literally are only two genders: Dark Mode and Light Mode.

Earlier GNOME was much more accepting of alternative window styles.

Yeah, I’d say us Xennials are out here looking for the early web, wherever it might spring up.

This part of the Fediverse definitely has that early web feel to it. Loosely moderated, no “algorithm” and little to no corporate interference or ens**ttification. Just like Usenet used to be. (And maybe still is. Still waiting on a smart person to build a bridge to whatever’s left of Usenet from the Fediverse. Were I 25 years younger, I might have even tried to be that person.)

Left Reddit with the API exodus. But I’m not on Lemmy. Most of the traffic and discussion does seem to have ended up on Lemmy groups like this one, so that’s where my participation ends up, but I’ll be on kbin/mbin for as long as I can be.

Imagine, if you will, the person who is wise to the effect on a floppy disk, but uses a CD instead (Or DVD). They use it a few times but then it too stops working. Why?