It's not the most succinct language I'll give it that.
Copy-Item is a cmdlet, the native way to do it in PowerShell. Gp posted a hack to replicate the GUI in PowerShell.
Readit Newsvaliant55 commented on Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer til.andrew-quinn.me/posts... · Posted by u/hiAndrewQuinn
valiant55 commented on Perl's decline was cultural beatworm.co.uk/blog/compu... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Should the Rust community take a lesson here, and maybe the Zig community to an extent?
To me it seems that some in the Rust community in particular, perhaps because they're just the most vocal, are tightly coupled to progressive, social activism.
I guess in general I just find myself wishing that political and social issues could be entirely left out of technical communities.
I'd love for politics to not infiltrate most aspects of life. Until everyone is able to, at least in part, persue life without being oppressed because of their immutable attributes, their belief or lack of belief system, who they choose to love and/or how they view themselves I think it's our civic duty to crusade for those causes.
Luminaries also were concentrated in but a few spots of the world at the time:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21859771
I'm not sure I'd refer to some of these individuals as "luminaries" which typically has a positive connotation.
valiant55 commented on Why millennials feel hopeless about the economy businessinsider.com/mille... · Posted by u/SilverElfin
I commonly see that discussions of “unemployment rate” don’t account for the ways a person can be excluded from the labor market [1]. To achieve middle-class with a family detached home mortgage, annual vacation, etc., dual-earner is nearly mandatory. Those that “give up” and live in their parent’s basement playing video games are not counted as unemployed.
It's upsetting that it's commonly pushed that something as complex as "the economy" could ever be summerized or understood through a single, uncontextualized number. E.g. GDP, jobs reports, SP500 or unemployment rate.
Even just breaking down unemployment rate by race starts illuminated a better understanding of our current conditions. Labor participation sees at least some discussion in the main stream but trying to distill everything into a 5 second headline is hurdling us to doom.
valiant55 commented on A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure sacbear.com/xfinity-wont-... · Posted by u/vedmed
This is literally every/any ISP that maintains last-mile infrastructure or anything in between. Cable MSO's are (still it seems) the worst, and having worked for various of them in a network engineering capacity, including @home networks the pioneer of cable modems and service, I've seen it for 25+ years after now first or second hand from others that still do. Eventually it's cheaper to pay a call center agent to take their calls and abuse than fix the actual issue in the ground, which is simply business mantra for the 21st century for anything.
I have pretty good success with a regional provider. I have the option of a national (Verizon) provider, but since switching to fiber on the regional I've had a ~two disconnects, a few minutes of down time in two years. Fiber just seems more reliable.
valiant55 commented on Things that aren't doing the thing strangestloop.io/essays/t... · Posted by u/downboots
You pay a doctor for a consultation. saying you paid the doctor for medical school and for the legacy of doctors that came before him is.... wrong.
It's not wrong, that's exactly what I'm paying them for. If they didn't have the education then they wouldn't be a doctor, and I wouldn't be seeing them for a consultation.
I'm well compensated not because I'm good at googling things, but because I have a proven track record of being good at googling things. If a junior was able to produce the same results they wouldnt be paid more.
valiant55 commented on MySafeSpace – Whitehouse.gov whitehouse.gov/mysafespac... · Posted by u/cpursley
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-white-h...
Scroll down to the "major events timeline", its only irregular for now...
I didn't see an issue until I got to 1998, what the fuck is wrong with us? We shouldn't have allowed this to happen.
Shared hosting is dying, but not yet dead; FTP is dying with it - it's really the last big use case for FTP now that software distribution and academia have moved away from FTP. As shared hosting continues to decline in popularity, FTP is going along with it.
Like you, I will miss the glory days of FTP :'(
I think everyone is underestimating how much B2B file exchange happens over SFTP/FTPS. I'm in healthcare and my system moves thousands of files up and down from over 100 unique hosts daily.
valiant55 commented on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program pyfound.blogspot.com/2025... · Posted by u/lumpa
Lawyers wouldn't have as much job security if commas didn't matter some of the time
This administration is working very hard to make all lawyers redundant. The law doesn't really matter if the court is at the beck and call of the President.
valiant55 commented on Why UUIDs won't protect your secrets alexsci.com/blog/uuids-an... · Posted by u/8organicbits
I have had this fight so many times ... "we don't need to generate a random key, we can just use this 'unique' identifier" where the unique identifier is always some form of PII.
Some form of PII that can change too. Natural keys are a no go for me.