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Java/.NET/C++/etc. people don’t have the urge to publish every other line of code they deem “useful”. They also don’t have the urge to import said one-liners when writing a helper method in 15 seconds is perfectly adequate.

If only there was some standard format to interchange structured data over pipes, other than plain text delimited with various (incompatible) combinations of whitespaces, using various (incompatible) escaping schemes.

I remember stumbling upon the Flat Earth Society back around 2003. I was convinced it was one of those elaborate ironic jokes/hoaxes that we used to have back then (bonsai kitten, World Jump Day, etc.)

Bash 5.0 released 8 years ago

Would you notice if that URL was “raw.githubusercontent.someotherdomain.com” instead of “raw.githubusercontent.com”?

I’m pretty sure at least 50% would merrily copy & paste it in their shell.

How would that help when e.g. copying files from a Linux server to macOS via Samba? Mind you, the filenames can contain both NFC, NFD or the mixture of the two.

I use this transform chain for asciifying filenames (ridiculous as it is, in 2019 we still can't sync unicode filenames between different OSs):

    uconv -x ':: Any-Latin; :: Latin-ASCII; [:^ASCII:] > \_'
Explanation:
    Any-Latin
Transliterates from non-latin scripts to latin script (e.g. "γραφὴν" --> "graphḕn").
    Latin-ASCII
Tries to asciify characters as much as possible by discarding accents, splitting ligatures, replacing Unicode quotes with regular quotes, © --> (C), etc.
    [:^ASCII:] > \_
Replaces any remaining non-ASCII characters with an underscore.

Laptops with preinstalled Windows also have a tremendous amount of crapware from various vendors. Trial versions of antivirus software, system "optimizing" apps, sometimes outright spyware too.

Thankfully Mac users don't have to put up with this kind of consumer-hostile bullshit.

I’d say this is because the concept of a “stare down” is instictive to us primates (or even mammals in general). That is, asserting dominance via staring at others is something we’re born with, and for good reason: our ancestors’ survival hinged on this when being confronted with someone bigger/stronger. That’s why you look down when you’re anxious or ashamed. Canines and felines do the same.

So it’s just natural that people subconsciously transfer this dominance-via-staring to inanimate objects as well, because it comes from a very ancient mammalian instinct.