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So good to see that, even in 2026, Unix Haters' Handbook's part on rm is still valid. See page 59 of the pdf
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Btw, what's this about QWERTY to slow them down? Far as i know, it's to reduce finger travel?
Qwerty was developed so that typewriter hammers have a low chance of hitting each other and get stuck. It was never about finger travel or ergonomics.
PCs adapted the layout and unfortunately we stuck with it ever since. There are many better layouts, some more extreme in terms of difference to qwerty, some just fix the most blatant problems. Colemak and Dvorak for example.
On mechanical typewriters the little arms that slap the steel letters onto the ink ribbon/paper could get physically jammed. QWERTY was designed to make it so that was less likely to happen by placing the keys in an order that discouraged it.
At least, that's the way I learned it.
Source: trust me bro
The biggest flaw with cars is when they crash. When I crash my car due to user error, because I made a small mistake, this proves that cars are dangerous. Some other vehicles like planes get around this by only allowing trusted users to do dangerous actions, why can't cars be more like planes? /s
Always backup important data, always have the ability to restore your backups. If rm doesn't get it, ransomware or a bad/old drive will.
A sysadmin deleting /bin is annoying, but it shouldn't take them more than a few mins to get a fresh copy from a backup or a donor machine. Or to just be more careful instead.
There's a reason sane programs ask for confirmation for potentially dangerous commands
The handbook has numbered pages, so why use "page X of the pdf"? I don't see the page count in my mobile browser - you made me do math.
(I think it's page number 22 btw, for anyone else wondering)
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Because the book's page 1 is the pdf's page 41, everything before is numbered with roman numerals :)
I also wasn't expecting anyone to try and read with a browser or reader that doesn't show the current page number
I dont know if you use firefox on your phone, but i do, and i fucking hate it that i cant jump to a page or see the page number im on.
Mjpdf is decent, while still zen.
That is what I'm using. I don't really read enough pdf:s to notice it normally, but I guess it's another reason to get off my ass about switching browsers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯