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  • foyrkopp@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneTr(rule)am
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    9 months ago

    Depending on your definition, this actually is not peak performance.

    Subways are.

    Obviously, the tunnels are absurdly expensive, but nothing moves as many people as quickly around a city as a subway.

    They’re also extremely reliable, meaning people are even more likely to actually use them, and their above-ground footprint is essentially zero.





  • Alien intelligence is not required to follow human reasoning.

    The Lords of Alpha Centauri could run a long-term social engineering program on Earth because they believe capitalism, conflict and social darwinism are objectively Good for You and we need to be purged of the folly of humanistic ideology before we can be allowed to join the galactic civilization market.

    Or because they find our struggles entertaining.

    What I can tell you is that no rational spacefaring civilization would need to resort to social engineering if they just want to kill us. Just toss a bit (or a lot) of spare delta v on a sufficiently large asteroid (or five) and humanity goes the way of the dinosaur.

    (Different story if they want us dead, but want to make it look like suicide because of the space police.)


  • Well, it works well for some people.

    Once you get used to it, it can be a dang powerful tool. For people doing a lot of config-wrangling on the CLI (i.e. admins working a lot ovet SSH), overcoming the learning curve will pay dividends.

    If you’re working mostly locally and in a GUI environment environment, it’s probably not worth it - there’s a reason most devs use more specialized IDE’s.






  • foyrkopp@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldOne-liner
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    1 year ago

    This was actually what got me hooked during university.

    Had to plot about 40 txt files of measurement data, was not looking forward to do it one by one with the GUI-based tool I had.

    StudyBuddy: “Do you have a Linux on this Laptop”?

    Me: “Yeah, set up dual boot a while ago, never really wound up using it.”

    StudyBuddy: Boots up Linux, installs gnuplot, types in a one liner.

    Computer: Brrrrt. Here’s your 40 plots.

    Me: “Okay, I’ve got to start looking into this.”