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  • Could someone perhaps explain the major use cases or give a real life example of a time you’ve needed to use awk? I’ve been using Linux casually for quite a long time now, and although I learned the basics of the tool, I can’t recall having ever felt I had a need for it. If I want to glue a bunch of cli stuff together and need to do some text processing, it generally seems like it’d be easier to just use a simple python script.

    Is it more for situations that need to be compatible with most *nix systems and you might not necessarily have access to a higher level scripting language?






  • enkers@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldUS Frites
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    12 days ago

    “Frites” is a portmanteau of the words “French” and “frites”, so it’s still just “frites”.

    Incidentally, when translating the word “frites” to English, you can’t be certain of how many instances of the word “French” you need to add, and the only way to be certain is to ask the original author. This has led to many difficulties in translating posthumous works.



  • The problem is that performant screenshare (to multiple users) more or less requires infrastructure. That requires money, and it’s impossible to compete on price with services that have the VC-enshitification model.

    You can get around this in a few ways, but they’re all tradeoffs that are in some way or other worse than discord.

    • P2P - sacrifice latency, reliability
    • direct multi-stream - sacrifice PC performance and/or bitrate
    • paid infrastructure - sacrifice money


  • Edit: Oh, OP basically already said the same thing.

    I think it really depends on the website and even where you are on the website. For example, if you’re on YT, the watch?v=<b64_id> is probably not something you want to throw away. If you’re on a news site like imaginarynews.com/.../the-article-title/?tracking-garbage=<...> then you probably do. It’s just a matter of having “sane” defaults that work as most people would expect.






  • I’m oversimplifying here, but it’s because it requires conformity. Everyone has to change themselves to fit the system, and if they can’t or don’t, then they are generally not treated very well.

    The polar opposite problem is when there’s too much individual freedom and people are allowed to harm others with impunity, so once again some people will be treated very poorly.