That doesn’t protect you from typos.
rm -rv /home/schmuck /etc
“Whoops, I accidentally added a space.”
I have three ways around this:
ls ~/etc … <press up arrow, replace ls with rm -rv>ls ~/etc … rm -rv !$I see that you read “behavioral economics scientists” and wrote “manosphere influencers”. There isn’t much of a chance that you did this on accident.
If it was, would that be worse than the zero research you’ve done?
Is that confidence based off of your gut feelings? Because my statement was based off of similar research done by behavioral economists.
I am concerned that people will read your comment, and end up using dangerous dull knives.
I don’t really want to get into an argument, but most people will put off doing anything even mildly complicated to the point that they never do it. If you never sharpen your knives, then you will end up with dull knives, which is the worst possible outcome.
Pull through sharpeners do actually sharpen the blade. I don’t know where you got your information from. You certainly don’t have to sharpen a knife every time, but even if you did, it would be something quick and simple that anybody could do.
There are also different levels of pull through sharpeners, some that make multiple passes for different types of blade care. But any sharpener, even the most basic pull through, is better than a dull blade.
A person who uses a pull through sharpener will generally know when they need to start looking into more advanced methods. I do not think it is safe to warn beginners off of using the tools that they are most likely to actually use.
The thing about the advice you’re giving is that it’s for pretty advanced users. But by the time you’re that advanced, you should probably know all of that stuff, anyways.
At a certain point, you might even get to the point where you feel it’s better to have your knives professionally sharpened rather than doing it yourself.
But when you start out, I think you should buy cheap knives and a cheap knife sharpener. The knives get dull quickly, but it’s super fast to sharpen them, so you don’t have to let them get dull. And you don’t really care if you wear down your knives by sharpening them too much because they’re cheap.
When you need to move on to a better system, you’ll know it.
Lately, I’ve had to alternate between three browsers just to watch YouTube videos.
Even if it’s not entirely faked, you can instruct an AI to give you wrong answers to your questions. So unless you can see the entire conversation history, you can’t make any conclusions about a single response.
I imagine if somebody started a thread here that asked the same question, but said, “Wrong answers only,” people would find a lot of evidence that humans aren’t capable of figuring this out, either.
When I open the door on my personal toaster oven, it automatically pulls a rack partially out of the oven (using a little hook on the door), so there is no need to put my hands inside the appliance. Knowing this, I position the food items toward the front of the rack so that they will come out easier.
You might have to be careful when removing things that have toppings or whatever, but since a normal toaster can only produce dry toast, it would be unfair to leave those items in the comparison criteria. So, we should just stick to dry toast.
With a toaster oven, you can always just grab dry toast from the top edges, and your hand, which we’ve already established doesn’t need to actually enter the toaster oven if it has a feature like mine, doesn’t even have any chance of coming into contact with the rack, either.
I also don’t think a toaster oven is necessarily slower than a toaster. It simply depends on the heating elements. Even among toasters, some are faster than others.
I will admit that subjectively, it probably feels like toaster ovens are slower due to a difference you didn’t mention, which is their more complicated controls and mechanisms. But since my recommendation was predicated on not needing overly specialized tools, I think a lot of specialized tools are simpler to use than general use tools. And this difference becomes smaller and often irrelevant as you get used to the tool.
reheating pizza
Blasphemy!
Cold pizza is the world’s greatest food and this is a hill that I am willing to die on!
If you prefer to avoid single-purpose kitchen appliances, then you will prefer toaster ovens to toasters. (Also, a normal oven can do.)
A toaster oven is also the superior appliance for making toast as it can toast bread that has already been loaded up with things like butter or peanut butter.
I think I see one toaster oven in the list, listed as D tier, which makes sense for that one because it has a built-in coffee maker.
But where’s the normal toaster oven in this list? That would be S-tier.
You were using the phrase correctly. “They can’t compete with it,” is the standard way of saying what you intended to say.
I was playing off of the normal meaning of your statement to make a turn of phrase. In other words, I am intentionally using weird phrasing, and placing it next to your normal phrasing for humor and impact.
It says that xAI lost their second cofounder, but then it turns out that he just left the company.
I never worked for Google, so I can’t say for sure, but I have this weird suspicion that they use a shitload of open source software, and I’m not just talking about their Android OS or Chromebooks, but for their most core businesses.
It wouldn’t be odd to think that Google might not exist except for their being able to use the open-source software that people had made before they founded their company.
The alternative is that they were complete idiots who paid for all sorts of retail software.
Of course Google hates open-source. They can’t compete with it.
Again, it’s just my supposition, but I’d bet that they can’t compete without it, either.
For any major tech company, apart from ones that are absolutely dedicated to proprietary software starting from firmware up through the OS and on to applications, like Microsoft and Apple, it’s going to be deeply hypocritical to hate open-source.
I noticed something similar with video. Like, if I am paying attention, the difference between the highest quality encoding and the next level is usually visible.
However, I have a harder time telling the difference if I don’t do a side by side comparison.
And even when I can easily tell the difference, once I’m watching the thing, I get into the story and I don’t care anyways.
Obviously a slightly different criteria compared to music, but people do make a big deal out of stuff that even they don’t actually care about.
I have wondered the same about scammers. Like, if their mother knew they were going to do that with their life, she’d probably regret all of that wasted effort raising them.
Don’t feed the trolls. Report, block, move on
Very good advice. But if you have some sort of personality defect that makes you occasionally engage with trolls like I do, here is some additional advice:
Make your comment less effort than the trolls. Don’t argue every point. Focus on their weakest point.
Essentially, if you can’t resist responding to a troll because you’re an idiot like me, make it like one short sentence where you point out their biggest mistake, and then if they respond to you and you respond back, keep doing that and never let them change the subject. At least you’re causing them to waste effort.
As a person with a long history of intermittent insomnia, I had this bad feeling last night that I’d not be able to go to sleep no matter what.
So, I did what I normally do in those situations, which is probably not the right thing, by the way. I stayed up and tried to distract myself until I forgot about that thought. It usually eventually works, but last night, I couldn’t seem to forget the thought, and at about 4:30 am, I was so tired that I thought I should be able to fall asleep, regardless.
And I did fall asleep, but I think it was around 6. In retrospect, I should have just taken some medicine at midnight.
I think the bigger point is that if you type the entire path, you are obviously typing more characters, which gives more opportunities for typos, whatever they may be.
It’s far safer to find ways to type less. Less typing, fewer typos. As long as you can do it safely.