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I’m pro voilence against people who block grocery store entrances because they figured that was the best place to chat with someone they ran into… so yes.
I’ll let Randall Munroe decide that himself, considering the fact that he provides URLs for hotlinking below the comics
I raise you this: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lisp_cycles.png
I will soon be joining some former coworkers and feiends in a new company. But due to red tape, there has to be an application process, even if the outcome is predetermined. I am so going to base my cover letter on this.
“I am normal and can be trusted around expensive hardware”
If windows didn’t exist, linux would dominate with the problems you describe, and we’d still see this meme, but advocating for FreeBSD instead.
That being said, I like them both. It’s been a while since I last used bsd, so I think it’s about time I give it another spin.
Not very practical, but good for understanding the OS: Everything is a file. Even your filesystem and harddrive is represented by a file (devicenode).
Back in the day, before things such as pulseaudio and equivalents became the norm, there was also such a file (it might still exist, idk) for your soundcard. By shoving the contents of a wav file directly into /dev/dsp, you could hear it as if it was played normally.
Unrelates to the above, in a terminal context it’s very handy to learn the concepts of STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, and how to manipulate these. I won’t go into it here, but whenever you see a bunch of commands strung together with redirects, < > | >>, that’s usually for sending the output (STDOUT) of one command somewhere else, such as to the input STDIN to another command.
I’ve always been intrigued by that one. I want to test it out, but finding an image has proven difficult.
It’s NOT just a stick. It’s a nice stick, which means its uses are many.