Notices by Benjamin Hollon (benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org), page 4

@RL_Dane
Yikes, your use of awk is *far* more complex than mine.

Okay I think I've got this figured out so far.

@RL_Dane
I have no idea what's going on. Yet, I know I could if I took the time to read the manpages and parse those flags.

I'm seriously conflicted right now.

@RL_Dane
I don't remember why I didn't like bc, but there was a reason. I did try it.

Here's calc: https://github.com/lcn2/calc

I think I liked the interactive shell you get if you don't provide any arguments. Not sure.

@RL_Dane
~] man awk | wc -l
1660
~] calc "$(man awk | wc -l) - $(man tar | wc -l)"
651

That's not too bad. Perhaps I should take the time to figure it out.

@RL_Dane
You could just clone it and open the README in vim or less, you know.

And yes I have had python recommended to me and it works fine, but for whatever reason I abhor using python. I get shivers every time I consider it.

I guess I could use deno.

~] deno
Deno 1.31.1
exit using ctrl+d, ctrl+c, or close()
REPL is running with all permissions allowed.
To specify permissions, run `deno repl` with allow flags.
> 3 + 5
8
> 5 ** 30202
Infinity
> 0.1 + 0.2
0.30000000000000004

@RL_Dane
*That's* how I feel about using python for basic math. ;)

@RL_Dane
Let me introduce you to the most wonderful domain name ever: https://0.30000000000000004.com

Floating point math is tricky, ain't it? ;)

@RL_Dane
Just for the record:

~] pytohn
pytohn: command not found
~] python
Python 3.10.9 (main, Dec 6 2022, 18:44:57) [GCC 11.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 0.1 + 0.2
0.30000000000000004

@RL_Dane @mike @indie1337 @Vivaldi

Yeah, I *want* to use vimb, but there are so many features qutebrowser adds that I'm not sure I could live without.

At least it does go through the extra filter of being based on qtwebengine rather than pure Chromium.

@jmichaelsturm @RL_Dane @michel_slm @mike @indie1337 @Vivaldi

Honestly I like WebKit less than Chromium. Every single mobile browser on iOS is required to actually use Safari under the hood, giving Apple a monopoly over the space and a stranglehold over what new web features are actually used. Even if every other browser has a feature, you can't use it because the only way for many mobile users to have a working site would be for them to leave Apple.

@RL_Dane @jmichaelsturm @michel_slm @mike @indie1337 @Vivaldi

Part of what makes Apple so frustrating to me is that they really do make spectacular products, but their corporate anticompetitive policies are so terrible.

@RL_Dane @jmichaelsturm @michel_slm @mike @indie1337 @Vivaldi

I don't, but Apple's huge control over it and the way they use it to maintain their monopoly really sets me against using it.

I know I use iOS (for those who don't know, it's a handed-down phone), but I really don't like Apple and plan never to buy one of their products.

@RL_Dane @jmichaelsturm @michel_slm @mike @indie1337 @Vivaldi

XD

Well that's an interesting way to put it.

@sirber
You already destructed v1 of this toot.

@RL_Dane @sotolf @joel
Alright, I finished reading. :)

Some interesting things here. Personally, I actually prefer the verbose output to the splash screen, since it's easy to see that things are happening.

@sotolf @RL_Dane @joel
Well then, I'll have to give it a chance, too. :)

@RL_Dane @sotolf @joel
DO IT

Thought I'd mention; my 19th birthday is some time in the next week. I probably won't reveal the exact date—my birthdate is one of the few pieces of information about me I actually try to keep secret.

But it's an important moment for me—first year away from family. I've grown a lot in the last year. At the beginning… in many ways I was a completely different person.

So yeah, even though I don't like making a big deal of my birthday, I thought I'd mention it, since this one's important.

@dmoonfire
You monster.

@clacke @nantucketebooks
(oh, in case it's not clear, I use the Chinese name ordering system with Liu Cixin, putting his family name first. Generally you'll find English translations of his work under "Cixin Liu".)