What do you all think about zram?

Wait, is “dark pattern” taboo now?

Yeah, I use that, too. It might differ from DE to DE, but in KDE, there’s the normal clipboard, and then there’s the one for selections and middle-click. They don’t share the same contents by default, but you can enable that.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve accidentally pasted random private stuff from that goddamn middle click into WEB PAGES! Things that can read whatever text you type without having to explicitly submit anything. It’s a horrible thing for a new user to discover by accident. It’s such an unexpected feature to new users, and no one gets told about it, ever. You simply discover it by accident.

This is a good change, not having it on by default.

To all the haters of this idea, god forbid we make Linux less weird by default for people migrating from Windows.

All that said, I have learned to love select-to-copy and middle-click paste. Especially in the terminal.

Aww! What’s her name?

for loops

Your code executes ls and records the results in a variable. The result is some text, a string of characters. (We call them “strings” and i is now a string variable.) Among the characters in a string variable might be spaces, tabs, or new line characters. I mention this because the special variable IFS is used by for loops, and it contains exactly one space, tab, and new line by default.

When you call for with a string as the input, it splits the string into units by splitting on each character in IFS. That is, it splits the big string into individual parts by splitting at each space, tab and new line. So this creates an array which is what is looped over. Each word in turn is assigned to your looping variable and then the code after the do is executed once per word.

(“word” has a sort of a special meaning here. When I say word, I mostly just mean a string that has no spaces in it. When you read text in English, there are words. They’re strings of characters separated by spaces. But words can also be separated by tabs, new lines, commas, semicolons, or whatever, but not by default when using for! You have to modify IFS to add those characters if you want them to be considered word separators.)

So, if any of the file system entries returned by ls have spaces in them, your loop is going to create more outputs than there are file system entries in the current directory.

For example:

file one.txt
file two.txt
my photo.jpg
notes (final).md
a b c d.txt

That would cause like 12 loops and 12 outputs in your code despite there only being five files.

If you instead overwrite IFS before running your loop, and only assign a single new line to the variable, then your loop will only be over the actual lines of the input text. Like this:

IFS=$'\n'

and then use your exact code above. Using my example of five files, this code will now only produce 5 outputs, not 12.

You can assign whatever characters you want to IFS.

(I have not tested any of this code, or examples.)

Variable names

The loop variable name i is just an identifier. Any valid variable name would work except you can’t use the reserved names like $1, $2 or any keywords as names. Also, there’s no way to escape an identifier. They are just literal names.

You also don’t want to use any built-in variable names or else you’ll overwrite their values for the duration of the current session. Bash will happily let you use them as your looping variable, but the rest of your code might have undesirable results. Variable names like IFS, for instance. :D

Every fountain drink machine uses “actual syrup”. They’re all mixed in the machine in real time. But yes, many places fuck up the ratio and don’t bother correcting it, and don’t check it regularly.

McDonalds routinely checks the ratio. They also use an amount of syrup such that if some (all?) of the ice melts, you still have full strength soda. So it’s extra flavor before any ice melts. I don’t have a citation for that, but a friend once posted a citation explaining it, and I read it. Seems legit. McDonalds Diet Coke has more flavor that a can of Diet Coke, even.

Come on, in the fourth frame the hard drive should be on its side, facing the camera. Not on it’s back.

I live on the Isle of Quibble.

Fewer shits is colloquially incorrect.

Not in my area. Fewer shits is correct.

If you want to use less, say “less of a shit”.

Picture one of those bell curves memes where the right-side Jedi Guy is saying “everything is information”.

There are interpretations of quantum mechanics amd relativity that are compatible with that.

hunchbacked, deep-jawed mega-goose

Yeah, but only after it stains the hardwood floor.

I’m surprised at all my downvotes. Did you think I was being serious?

Do people really say “Impossible” at the end of a comment when it’s not facetious?

My point was that precisely zero people should be surprised by the result of the study. I should have just said that instead of trying to be cheeky.

What? Men feel empathy? Impossible.

My god is YouTube. TV is dead.

And definitely don’t marry him!

https://youtu.be/TyZSBqQ813c

I sometimes enjoy pestering people who make asses of themselves in comment threads. You definitely qualify with how many comments you’ve made in this thread attacking people for having the audacity to say they don’t like CSS. I was serious that I think you should take a break from arguing on the internet. For your own good. (And ours.)

You took my lighthearted joke about an intentionally awkward language and threw it in my face, saying that I must be bad at design, etc.

“If you dont like CSS, you’re just bad.”

I don’t know why anyone would ever choose to be a programming language apologist. If people have criticisms of a language, good, they’re probably valid. You don’t need to apologize for the language and brush their criticisms under the rug. It just makes you look like a jerk.

Sorry, I already said “touch grass”. You can’t come back with a comment like that. It’s much too late.

Nope. I have you pegged.