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Maybe this is more about outrage culture (being upset over relatively small things like microagressions rather than "real problems", often argued to be a fallacy of relative privation, unless the small things are not a problem at all or the argument is that the response is disproportional to the magnitude of the problem) than about whether an SJW is of a feminist or some other persuasion. Some disagree that SJWs are necessarily feminist or vice versa. A lot of these terms aren't exactly clearly defined.

The argument could have been a lot clearer and less confrontational. At least it seems more consistent than anti-feminists being "reactionary" for the old times where we could make jokes about women but being offended by jokes about men.


I think of it like `cp`. Source to destination, where destination is the soft link. so it's like copying a file somewhere but instead of a copy you're making a link


Same here. After adopting this approach, I haven't had to look it up since.

The real question I have left: why is this so intuitive for cp, but completely counterintuitive for ln?

I wonder if is because we think of how we would follow the link.


This. "I want something here that points to there" is how I always think about it. That's why "link" on my boxes is mapped to "ln -s" with the arguments swapped :)


> I think of it like `cp`. Source to destination, where destination is the soft link.

That doesn't make sense to me. The way I think about cp is "copy this, and put it over here". If you think about symlinks that way, you mix it up.

When you say "source to destination, where destination is the soft link", that makes it more confusing for me, because if you consider the symlink that is being created as the "destination" (which at least is the intuitive way to think about it for me, but I suppose it's individual), you actually end up with:

# cp [source] [destination]

# ln -s [destination] [source]

Where "source" is "the new thing that should be created".

Since I seem incapable of getting out of this way of thinking about sources and destinations, my rule of thumb is that when creating a symlink, you always decide where it should point first. Not intuitive perhaps, but this time I've made the mistake so many times it kinda sticks.


If it was a hard link, I suppose my way of thinking about it would make more sense, since all hard links are as valid, pretty much the same. That is, after running

  ln /some/file /other/file
/some/file and /other/file are hard links. So in this case ln is just copying a hard link, while afaik cp would be copying data, making a hard link pointing to the new data. In userspace? That seems to be what's happening here - https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/bin/cp/utils.c

This is made a bit more confusing by the differences in man pages. For GNU ln, it's shown as ln TARGET LINK_NAME, but for OpenBSD, ln source [target]. But the usage is pretty much the same?


how about like this:

# cp [existing-thing] [new-thing]

# mv [existing-thing] [new-thing]

# ln -s [existing-thing] [new-thing]


I do this as well, but it only works if I don't think about it. If I start thinking about it, I begin second guessing myself on whether I got it right and end up having to look it up.


Identity politics is such made up right-wing bullshit. It's clear that you have to belong to a certain group to discuss anything to do with them, unless you are telling minorities what's best for them because you know better.

People are not getting their views strawmanned leading to their characters and careers being destroyed and being inundated with death threats unless they deserve it, clearly.


One can think that parades in general are disruptive but should still be allowed due to the right to free assembly, and you did not address the "almost naked leathered men". Which I don't think is a big deal, but I can sort of understand the whole "think of the children" argument.

And the problem is that everyone deviating from the party line is strawmanned into "having horrible views" and thus it's perfectly okay to harass them mercilessly and cause them economic harm just for being stupid or whatever.


https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ also supports socket activation, Obarun, Gentoo and Void support it so far. Would be interesting to see how it'd compare to systemd's use cases with wider adoption.


I too am autistic and had an experience similar to yours, although I'm not sure if the effect on productivity was nearly as much, but still definitely there and it was a form of escapism.

Still, I had plenty of time to reflect and mature while not really getting very high due to very high tolerance, although I also had anxiety problems almost like psychosis. Still managed to get out, sort of interview although probably much worse than sober, and barely work on some code. Eh, been a few weeks now and I still barely code. Only did what was required for school after burning out, before becoming addicted.

Almost got CHS after dabbing plenty of CBD (which can also cause CHS, although rare) as well as hash oil. Thankfully I only puked until my stomach was empty, didn't last long and wasn't painful, but I had most of the pre-CHS symptoms. Sometimes I think I could just do a tiny amount as a reward here and there... that it wasn't that hard to quit... maybe I'm fooling myself.


Maybe find some prescription drugs that would give you some benefits you desire? They are more regulated and if you find a doctor you like you won’t be going at it alone. I wish you the best.


He didn't damage anything, apparently not beyond displaying a message for every user in the school district. Jail time is incredibly draconian and would only make him disillusioned with the system.


Jail time for reporting vulnerabilities? This is some Poe's law shit.


"View oriented" like https://www.liftweb.net/


First thought was whitelisting USB vendor and device IDs, but I guess those could be spoofed. A button above every USB port?

Going back to PS/2 could be an option? Guess that wouldn't be too different from allowing all devices only on a single USB port.


What if the USB device upon gaining power opened up and poked your button? : P


Shannon's Ultimate Machine....

https://invidio.us/watch?v=cZ34RDn34Ws


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