Yeah, this gets posted regularly. Which is not a bad thing in itself, but the last time wasn't very long ago at all.
Also, if you're going to post it, maybe link to the one posted on the author's website ( https://terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/ ), rather than some other worse site which is reproducing it without permission.
> My personal rule: anyone who uses any chromuim based browser is a tech illiterate
That's funny, that's exactly how I feel about people who haven't jumped ship from firefox yet.
> I have had more than 1500 tabs in one machine a couple weeks ago on a laptop of 16gib ram, running 1% of those on chromium based and it will crash.
I have 1940 tabs open in my chromium-based browser right now. This machine has 16GB RAM. It's running just fine, thanks. It's been this way for weeks. I opened a new tab to reply to this.
> Plus the proper ad blocking and control over privacy, making it the last bastion of browsers right now.
All that stuff is just built into brave. Which is chromium-based.
Technically rc files tend to be a list of commands (usually to set config options) that are executed on startup, not actually configuration files per se.
Pretty sure it was really just smarter filesystems that avoid and/or reduce fragmentation automatically: just be a bit more clever about where you place things, and reorganise/optimise things automatically and silently in the background.
Such things did exist back in the day, but they were relatively expensive to run since they had to run all the time. There was one that I used to run back in the 90s when windows was a thing. I think maybe it was diskeeper but I'm not sure.
Cool page, it lists a bunch of compelling arguments. It's always good to see more and more people realising these things and start insisting on actual ownership.
Meanwhile, did you know defectivebydesign.org has been around for 20 years now? Makes me feel old.
> The ignore file lives in your machine’s home directory in ~/.config/git/ignore. Whatever filenames are added to this file are ignored globally at a machine-level.
The wording here is slightly wrong: ~/.config/git/ignore will ignore files per-user on the machine, not "at a machine level". And it's not "your machine's home directory", it's your user's home directory on that machine. Any other users on the same machine will not see this. Git calls this "global", as in "global for the user".
Git config does also have a --system option which modifies the system-level config file, /etc/gitignore. You could probably ignore stuff at the system/machine level (hint: you don't want to), with this. I'd do something like:
Note however that user config will override this, so any user who has a core.excludesFile setting will not also look at your system level excludes file. Which is a pretty big caveat.
Also, if you're going to post it, maybe link to the one posted on the author's website ( https://terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/ ), rather than some other worse site which is reproducing it without permission.
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