I don’t think I’ve found amazing things recently. Things worth using and things better than the alternative and things that are promising to maybe one day be great, yes.

But I’ll single out one little thing: dust. https://github.com/bootandy/dust

Dust is meant to give you an instant overview of which directories are using disk space without requiring sort or head. Dust will print a maximum of one ‘Did not have permissions message’.

Dust will list a slightly-less-than-the-terminal-height number of the biggest subdirectories or files and will smartly recurse down the tree to find the larger ones. There is no need for a ‘-d’ flag or a ‘-h’ flag. The largest subdirectories will be colored.

It’s like a killer combination of du and sort oneliners that actually shows me what I want to know: What’s the big stuff in this dir.

Depends on the machine and… maybe other things. I used to think that, too, but on my current machines I can step backwards just fine.

It’s probably a much more intensive operation requiring processing a lot of the file from before and throwing away current buffers or something.

Tdk makes chips, really?

Delicious cancer

Could it cure their multiposting?

No. If they want to call it sue doo or sue dough, they should have written that. :)

I also pronounce Linus Linus.

I say zsh, s s h, and sudo. But I’m Finnish and we’re literal folk language wise.

Yes. It’s a shame, but these things seem to happen. I’m just sorry for Al.

The classic term might be eccentric. But I don’t know if you have to be rich for that.

I watch a lot of things labelled horror in the (mostly vain) hope that there would be a good speculative angle about alternate reality.

Using capitals

Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit. It’s only advantage, so far as I have been able to see, is that it spans change. A young person sees the world as a still picture, immutable. An old person has had his nose rubbed in changes and more changes and still more changes so many times that that he knows it is a moving picture, forever changing. He may not like it–probably doesn’t; I don’t–but he knows it’s so, and knowing is the first step in coping with it.

Robert Heinlein

Liberty and justice for all.

And soft lavatory paper.

My first thought was some military gear as well. A scarf or travel utensils or bag or something. Actually even the gloves I got are probably over 20 years old.

Rescued pets cats be priceless, though keeping them fed and healthy and happy can cost a fair bit.

Can’t remember when I bought my de razor, but it was old even then. And it’s the quick and convenient trapdoor type. I rinse and flip the blade after each shave as it only takes a few seconds. It even came with a travel case. Flea market price range, I think, well under 10€.

I have a big stack of blades I ordered from somewhere as well and they’ll last a while.

I once had a hard drive of some particular vintage that wasn’t able to start. I did actually get it running with a hammer tap. Got the remains of data out and replaced the drive. It was nothing special, a Unix system drive with nothing that wasn’t on tape, but I just had to see if I could fix a hard drive with a hammer.

I also remember one admin who would often be seen walking between computer maintenance room and workshop wing with drives and a blacksmiths hammer labelled “format”.

Istr that there’s some genetics involved in which way your legs like to bend. I’ve always bent easily in that direction. I can sit in full lotus easily or e.g. sit on in the floor, legs ahead with heels together and bend forward and rest my forehead on my feet. And there’s many stretches that do nothing for me because I run out of motion before anything gets tight. But legs wider apart, I can almost not sit upright at all. I’m not a flexible person over all.

It’s kind of hard to describe, but anyway. Took me until I was many many years old until a yoga instructor told me it kind of varies from person to person how easy some motions are.

There’s two ways to really do two things at once. Either you find a way to make them one more complex thing in your mind, or you juggle your focus between them.

This is good for things like reading aloud, reading music, playing two rhythms with different limbs, dancing or other choreography etc.

Various horrifying things happening to animals, people, or on some occasions me and being unable to help.

Suffering animals are the worst.

Fall asleep.

Well, I guess it does technically eventually happen to me sometimes somehow. But not when it should.

Never had very bad experiences.

Once, asleep, I opened my eyes as I heard footsteps going around the room, come next to my bed, stop for a while, then walk out again. I could see nobody in the room. After the steps in the hall stopped, I could wake up and get up. It was early but I didn’t really feel like trying to sleep any more.