pmarreck (u/pmarreck)

pmarreck commented on Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) rhodesmill.org/brandon/20... · Posted by u/theblazehen

cluckindan · 18 hours ago

  which <commandname>

pmarreck · 3 hours ago

nope, that just gets you the first hit, not all of them

type -a commandname

pmarreck commented on Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) rhodesmill.org/brandon/20... · Posted by u/theblazehen

e40 · 19 hours ago

Care to share?

pmarreck · 3 hours ago

quite simple

type -a <commandname>

pmarreck commented on Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox github.com/valdanylchuk/b... · Posted by u/isitcontent

pmarreck · 17 hours ago

Would love this with Zig installed

pmarreck commented on Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) rhodesmill.org/brandon/20... · Posted by u/theblazehen

alzee · 21 hours ago

Using commas in filenames feels kind of weird to me, but I do use a comma as the initiator for my Bash key sequences. For example: ,, expands to $ ,h expands to --help ,v expands to --version ,s prefixes sudo

You put keyseqs in ~/.inputc, set a keyseq-timeout, and it just works.

pmarreck · 20 hours ago

also. did you mean .inputrc ?

pmarreck commented on Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) rhodesmill.org/brandon/20... · Posted by u/theblazehen

impoppy · a day ago

Why so many people use ~/bin/? What’s wrong with ~/.local/bin?

pmarreck · 20 hours ago

The latter is XDG.

~/bin predates it.

And of course you can use both.

pmarreck commented on Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) rhodesmill.org/brandon/20... · Posted by u/theblazehen

layer8 · 20 hours ago

But Bash arrays don’t use comma, what’s the problem?

pmarreck · 20 hours ago

Have you met Bash? It’s a shrine to space-delimited everything lol

pmarreck commented on Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) rhodesmill.org/brandon/20... · Posted by u/theblazehen

alzee · 21 hours ago

Using commas in filenames feels kind of weird to me, but I do use a comma as the initiator for my Bash key sequences. For example: ,, expands to $ ,h expands to --help ,v expands to --version ,s prefixes sudo

You put keyseqs in ~/.inputc, set a keyseq-timeout, and it just works.

pmarreck · 20 hours ago

would an alias just work in this use-case?

pmarreck commented on Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) rhodesmill.org/brandon/20... · Posted by u/theblazehen

mathfailure · a day ago

I didn't like the idea. I prefer the alternative approach: _I_ decide the order of dirs in the PATH env. If I introduce an executable with a name, that overrides a system one - I probably do that intentionally.

If I introduce an alias (like `grep='grep --binary-files=without-match --ignore-case --color=auto`) that matches the name of a system binary - I probably do that intentionally.

And if I EVER need to call grep without my alias - I just prefix it with a backslash: \grep will search with case sensitivity and no color and will scan binaries.

pmarreck · 20 hours ago

I do the same thing, but I also have a command that shows me what functions or scripts might be shadowing other scripts

pmarreck commented on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] btboces.org/Downloads/7_T... · Posted by u/wallflower

pmarreck · 20 hours ago

August 5, 2026 is the date mentioned in this?

I put a note in my calendar!

pmarreck commented on Code is cheap. Show me the talk nadh.in/blog/code-is-chea... · Posted by u/ghostfoxgod

overgard · 8 days ago

I asked Codex to write some unit tests for Redux today. At first glance it looked fine, and I continued on. I then went back to add a test by hand, and after looking more closely at the output there were like 50 wtf worthy things scattered in there. Sure they ran, but it was bad in all sorts of ways. And this was just writing something very basic.

This has been my experience almost every time I use AI: superficially it seems fine, once I go to extend the code I realize it's a disaster and I have to clean it up.

The problem with "code is cheap" is that, it's not. GENERATING code is now cheap (while the LLMs are subsidized by endless VC dollars, anyway), but the cost of owning that code is not. Every line of code is a liability, and generating thousands of lines a day is like running up a few thousand dollars of debt on a credit card thinking you're getting free stuff and then being surprised when it gets declined.

pmarreck · 8 days ago

nobody is going to care about your bespoke codework if there is no downstream measurable difference