🎶 This bloody thing is giving me the shits... #vaguetoot
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When people try to manipulate you, but they don't understand the mother you survived.
Amateur.
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So my earlier #VagueToot about #bash #globbing ... I want to be able to specify something like "all the directories which don't contain a file called wibble.yml". #extglob can find files that don't match a `!(pattern)`, but I want to match the absence of such files in a directory. eg, if foo/bar, baz/bar and barf/ exist I want to be able to `ls -ld [magic goes here]` to get info about directory barf/ only.
Yes, I know other ways of doing this. I want to do it using globbing.
Because I do.
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Just a gentle reminder that the "If I don't club baby seals, someone else will club them"-style argument isn't an argument.
(Re: a conversation I had with a friend last night, not intended as a #vaguetoot against anyone on here)
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It's too early in the week to have to make this kind of phone call
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Man, the universe has a wicked, sadistic sense of humor. _"Here's this cool thing that'll happen to you -- but it'll also stab you in the face at the same time! Enjoy!"_
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That has to be the first genuinely dipshit response I've received on Masto since I've joined. Well, maybe not, but folks on here are, on average, pretty chill, cool folks, in my experience. So that was kind of a surprise, and easily an outlier.
Begone, weirdo.
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Oh that should happen, should it?
Well then, do it.
Or STFU.
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I'm thinking many of my biggest problems in life have come from either (a) not knowing when to let go or (b) not knowing when to hold on.
My calibration of these things is pretty awful, really.
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Worldview:
"People deserve respect. Ideas do not."
-- (some guest lecturer in an undergrad class a long time ago)It is my responsibility, if I want to be a decent human being, to treat you with respect, dignity, and kindness except (perhaps1 ) to the extent your behavior prompts a different response. This applies no matter who I think you are from my limited information, even if I think you're a racist, anti-LGBTQIA+, pro-genocide fascist. If those labels are not based on anything you've said or done, a decent human will still treat you with respect and kindness.
Ideas2 do not get any respect; the opposite, in fact. Ideas must prove their worth or be ignored. Ideas should be aggressively examined with careful, logical, moral thinking and, if relevant, with empirical data. To the extent they survive these ongoing tests, they get "respect," but it is always temporary. Ideas can (and should) be downgraded or thrown out often if they fail tests or if new information casts them in unfavorable light.
This applies to all ideas: eugenics, CRT, imperialism, Christianity, Buddhism, capitalism, socialism, fiscal policies, school board bylaws, etc.
Humans who believe bad3 things can (and should) still be treated with dignity and kindness unless such treatment leads to greater harm for others. This does not mean, however, that I need to pretend their ideas are OK. I can be basically kind and decent to a person while thinking (and maybe saying4 ) that their ideas are wrong, immoral, unhelpful, etc. If they get upset at this, it's understandable, but managing those feelings is beyond my responsibility.
Social dynamics get into this and make it messy and difficult. There are unspoken dimensions of Probable Cause to change evaluation of ideas, the Perfect being the Enemy of the Good, the question of when/if expressing ideas becomes an act capable of harming others more than necessary, power differentials, and other considerations. However, those are the principles I think make sense in this domain.
1 There are many who believe there are no exceptions.
2 e.g. the health benefits of essential oils or the belief that Everclear had more than one really good song
3 As defined by me, in my current state of development, of course. How else could it possibly be?
4 Of course, people sometimes do this out of cruelty or reactive aggression while claiming they are simply being honest. See the part about expression of ideas doing harm. Human psychology is a bitch, sometimes.
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I am plotting shenanigans. That's all I can say for now. #vaguetoot
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never a good day when the counter for software you have to actively unfuck for it to be useable goes up by one. #vagueToot
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Decided to keep my pedantic response to myself and not poke the hippo in the room.
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Yeah, thanks Facebook, for throwing that back in my face at the worst time. 😑
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I hate the fact that what's done can't be undone or even propperly made amends for. I hate that some people, really most people in my experience, will never admit they made the wrong decision and will defend it to the death, no matter how weak their arguements or how flawed their logic. #Vaguetoot
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Timezones. They're a pain.
Even when not dealing with technology, but with people, it causes confusion, forgetfulness, misunderstandings, and... Yes, pain.
I don't have any better solutions (UTC for everyone would be worse, trying to work out if 0200UTC is a reasonable time to call someone would be frankly Hellish) - but urgh. Wish I did.
#vagueToot [edit: Just realised, it's not a sub Toot after all, just a vague one]
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"are you sure you have enough disk space and RAM?”
really bro?
really?
#VagueToot #OSS