Maybe they were thinking of Mountain Lions. And they didn’t even mention wolves!

Software skills plus domain knowledge is a good combination, and I think it will remain viable in the future. But who the fuck knows?

I agree that alphabets are easier to learn. However, I don’t think that is the ultimate standard in what makes for a good writing system. I would like to learn Chinese. Someday. But I do like the logo-syllabic writing systems I do know

I disagree. I doubt you read any alphabet letter by letter. You read words or you don’t read fluently. So the reality is: alphabets aren’t inherently better, and I think the continued existence of Chinese as a viable writing system shows this to be the case.

The one advantage alphabets have is they have a more gentle ramp up, but I don’t think they are inherently better. In fact your example of Roman vs Arabic numerals is a preference for logogram over atomistic writing system.

I think this is actually a success: this is the process of all languages. A usable language will evolve and grow, and something as geographical dispersed and isolated as Esperanto will certainly show divergence if it is being used.

So rather than a failure, I think this demonstrates it can be a real language. Though my interest in language isn’t for communication. So eh. Your milage may very.

Ah. Well. I can not be blameless on this. I also probably use cat unnecessarily still. But less so with grep these days. I’m getting better… I swear!

Useless use of cat?

Yeah. I know. And I could tell, but it drives me batty. But also: thorn is an English character!!

Has someone who can mostly read Greek and English. I hate this. I hate this so much.

This assumes IBM will act rationally, which doesn’t have much recent precedence.

Oh. I like this idea. This is the kind of thing AI would be good for.

This is what I use too. But, I would like to not have a Google device as part of my chain. (I say on my Pixel phone, with stock android).

I use to give people shit that the default ls command was from 2002. They finally fucking upgraded it in like 2020. But yeah. That’s some old fucking software.

I think Colorado could force AZ to do what they want just by threatening to turn off the water.

When’s the last time you used Wayland? I tried a few years back and there were quite a few paper cuts.

I’ve been using sway for about six months and there is one obnoxious paper cut, and one thing that just doesn’t work.

The paper cut for me is a java app that won’t render menus correctly. Most menus work, but there are a few that don’t draw properly.

The one thing that still doesn’t work is deskflow.

Screen sharing with zoom and Google meet and jitsi work fine. Keyboard input changes work fine, and most things are just hunky dory.

Uh… Have you tried Fish? Or even a modern ZSH? Like oh my ZSH?

I guess I don’t want notepad tools. But I can set my key bindings in ZSH to vi bindings and do things like:

$ cat <<EOF | sparql --data=some.ttl --query=/dev/stdin
SELECT ?s ?p ?o
WHERE {
  ?s ?p ?o . 
} 
LIMIT 10
EOF

And that gives me a real basic text editor. Granted with syntax highlighting on, it thinks I’m trying to do ZSH scripts. But if you needed a ZSH script it would be perfect.

Second, tab works great for auto complete, it even suggests stuff (as long as you have that enabled, or the command supports it. Some clis do not have support for auto complete, but the shell does)

Modern shells are pretty fucking awesome.

I don’t know any hieroglyphs, but I do know cuneiform. Would rather read cuneiform than regex!

This is the one I use! Might have to look at regexer though

I have had a paper map direct me through a gated community. Thankfully the tools in the truck unfastened the hinges. Still bugs me. It was a county road!

Same. Same. I know some people use their phones, or GPS devices, but when I’m backpacking, I want a paper map and a compass. I bought two a few months back for planning a trips this summer.