Do this in important directories for added safety: $ touch -- - i This creates a file called "-i" which will add the interactive flag, prompting you before deleting every file that rm was going to delete.

That seems flaky at best. Basically you rely on "*" expansion to inject the -i.

While that may work for `rm -rf *`, it won't for `rm -rf foo/*`, `rm -rf foo`, etc

That's the point. You're not relying on it, it's a safety to save yourself from an unintended glob expansion.

Or for far better reliability, just use safety and add that to the config.

Stopped reading at the anti-white bs.

I'm pretty sure that if the author had put "black" instead of "white," this article wouldn't have even been linked here. It's fashionable to openly express anti-white bigotry these days.

Well yes because doing that substitution changes the meaning -- you're saying something fundamentally different in the latter article. It's no longer a piece about how a particular aspect of tech culture which got a foothold among the majority (white men) where that behavior not only doesn't reflect poorly on them, where a black man might get called aggressive and woman might get called bitchy, but is actively rewarded because that confidence is, sometimes mistakenly, used as a proxy for competence. And taken from a systems perspective this aspect of culture accidentally and through no ones fault created a prisoner's dilemma that forces group decision making to a local maximum instead of a global one. To write the same article about black people it would require a very different history and cultural context.

Is the meaning changed so much as to make it acceptable?

I take your point about "that substitution changes the meaning", but I strongly disagree that it changes it enough to make the substitution unacceptable and the original acceptable.

How sure are you of this opinion?

Would you feel the same if there was a legitimate reason for your stopping (like a person on the road)? The outcome is the same.

"Having a legitimate reason" is different from not. That's the difference between murder, manslaughter, negligent homicide, and good Samaritan protection.

Perhaps you just had a legitimate reason to cause a crash, doesn't mean the person driving behind you truly deserves any blame.

18 hours is absurd, IMO. I have a Garmin Instinct Solar that gets up to 24 days of battery life without any solar exposure (there's unlimited battery life with enough exposure unless you use GPS a lot). I get notifications for any phone app I want, plus GPS when I need it and a multitude of fitness tracking, including round the clock heart beat monitoring. I can't use it as a phone or send texts (though I can read them) so I guess that's where it "lags" behind the Apple Watch. I think it's the perfect fitness tracker that's also a rugged watch.

Free speech for me but not for thee.

This is mostly just an insult. It communicates the negativity that you feel toward people with another opinion, but it doesn't contain any substantive thoughts on why you feel such a stance is justified.

Amazon reviews have been shady for years. To combat this I never buy without running the item link through fakespot.com. The other day I also discovered reviewmeta.com t haven't tried it yet.

Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/) is great for converting epub to mobi.

The only "problem" I see is that there's a lot of vc money out there willing to take a long shot.

Well long in terms of odd, not time.

Water is wet

Ironically on that page the "highly recommended" link to https://speedtest.comcast.net/ times out.

Thanks for catching it! I'll fix it now! (We just did a revamp of the site text this week, must have slipped - we only 2 of us work on it :) )

EDIT: fixed! let me know if you see anything else out of place.

Thank you, it works now. FYI it took everything I had not to post something snarky ;)