I enjoyed this a lot (best book in years for me). There is also an audio version available which is also really good. Thank you Scott Alexander!
I found it unique in many ways and would love to hear if people know more similar books.
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mvo commented on Apt: please make the moo reproducible bugs.debian.org/848721... · Posted by u/teddyh
Took me a while (after reading through the reply, to no avail) to figure out what this refers to. Here's the feature this is referring to:
$ apt-get moo
(__)
(oo)
/------\/
/ | ||
* /\---/\
~~ ~~
..."Have you mooed today?"...
$ aptitude moo
There are no Easter Eggs in this program.
$ aptitude -v moo
There really are no Easter Eggs in this program.Try `aptitude -vv moo` :)
mvo commented on dd – Destroyer of Disks (2008) noah.org/wiki/Dd_-_Destro... · Posted by u/opensourcedude
> Unfortunately, there is no command-line option to have `dd` print progress
How difficult could it be to write a dd command from scratch that does include progress-reporting? I mean, dd is simply reading blocks of data from one file descriptor and writing them to another.
Pretty easy: https://github.com/mvo5/godd
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