On mobile (Safari), the link to the article scrolls me down towards the bottom of the page by the iframe/red dot, making me think half the page was missing.
Such a loss, he was a talented person. I always checked in on his site from time to time to see if there were any updates on his tooling or what he was using it for.
I find it peculiar to ask this question but then also deduplicate your history file because then you lose complete history and context. Sometimes I've had to issue series of commands to fix a particular problem (changing a kerberos password, fixing the expiry date of a gpg key, etc.) that I can backtrack through the history file to find what I did and how I resolved it, later having to do the same, and according to their settings the first instance would be removed.
Personally, I can't remember the solution to everything I do so having that deduplicated log gives me the full history of what I did and how I resolved it, amongst other uses. Sure, removing duplicate 'ls' entries is fine for example, but for every command? Not so sure.
You know what, you're right. And it's actually something that's been bugging me for a while, I just never got around to fixing it. I'm going to update my config now. Thanks!
I also don't understand why they're doing it. On my long-running full history duplicates cost me a factor of 2 in space, and presumably the same in search time (but still perceptually instant).
Actual scientific institutions like NASA already do, and all of the imperial units have metric backings and definitions now, so it’s just ignorance, stubbornness, or apathy at this point.
Oh boy, NASA, a scientific organization using metric. Lemme know when you’ve converted every recipe, ruler and wrench to metric. So ridiculously out of touch.
It leaves the containers behind when I use it so my container list is polluted with all of the temporary numbered containers. It stops me using it when it can’t cleanly handle itself…
Probably Firefox sync, but most likely the extension. I’ll use it again once it works.
I launch FF in a shell function that first calls BleachBit and calls it again when FF terminates. Not sure if that would help your case but it works for me. The reason I do this from a shell function is to redirect the output of FF console to a ramdisk just in case I needed it but did not have it prior to seeing something odd.
I would posit most things in a file system are better represented by graphs. A file type would have a program to run with, a program to edit with, maybe also referencing files in relatively placed directories/locations, and potentially pointed to by a crown job or other automation routines…
Trees and hierarchical layouts do make sense for some things, but as soon as you start symlinking, a proper graph works better - though I imagine computationally harder (a sacrifice I’m willing to make on most desktop machines tbh).
Your notion of sticking everything in a single space and using tags, searches, and filters is something I’ve wanted to explore for a while. Afaik it’s unexplored space, unless others could point me to some awesome tools or processes?
The UNIX filesystem has traditionally been a graph for ever. I haven't looked at details for a couple of decades, but definitely all UNIX/POSIX/Linux filesystems operate on a graph model.
A distinction I used to make when I was teaching this stuff: on your filesystem tree, on Unix names (labels) are on the links (arrows), while on DOS/Windows names are on nodes (boxes).
This is a fun use of technology I lose by having my iPhone 8 Plus. Previously I had an Android phone I used to automate to the nines with Tasker and such. Having similar capabilities on all of my devices and holistically binding them together (as you do with sshfs and similar technologies) is enjoyable and has more utility than any regular walled garden. Vendors locking down their devices to prevent advanced users from unlocking its full potential is sad.
I'm switching over to Android soon - once my current phone dies and I can find a capable device with a headphone jack, replaceable battery, and USB-C - and your setup has inspired me to get back into this game!
Would this file system access API finally allow use to use TiddlyWiki in the browser without add-ons or external tools finally? It's one of the sticking points for me for using it.
