I tend to work on customer systems where I’m not allowed to install anything. I’ve yet to encounter one that doesn’t have vi
installed, but I’ve seen a few without nano
.
I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.
I tend to work on customer systems where I’m not allowed to install anything. I’ve yet to encounter one that doesn’t have vi
installed, but I’ve seen a few without nano
.
Sort of, but aimed more at general purpose computing rather than gaming
How would y’all feel if Valve started selling PCs with their flavor of Linux on it?
My ex-MIL has TMJ and chews with her mouth open so I’d say her eating kettle chips, jaw clicking with every bite.
Get a service industry job to learn a healthy sense of misanthropy
The cast alone makes the movie worth it
And you complete the 90s hacker trifecta with Sneakers
I’d be totally okay with that, as long as he attempted necromancy
It’s not pride, it’s just that I know how to use it really well and that makes it easy for me to use.
But it’s really only for viewing files on another system over SSH. For local work I use Sublime Text
Was that customer perhaps a melancholy robot with a brain the size of a planet?
Looks more like a great awk than a penguin
Somebody get Wonko the Sane on the phone. He’s the one with the house that looks like the inside of an insane asylum on the outside.
The account doesn’t really act like someone pretending to be an actor, and whoever runs it was mainly posting during the SAG strike when she would have had more free time. So I want to believe it’s her, because she replied to one of my posts and that was pretty cool.
The problem with “It’s self-documenting” is that there are inevitably questions about what it says, and there’s no additional resources to pull from.
Totally agree. And I’d argue that we don’t even need technical writers. Even if all people do is correct grammar and spelling mistakes it would be helpful, let alone actually writing docs. It’s one of the easiest ways non-technical folks can get involved with open source projects.
If you know your weakness is writing documentation, please hire a technical writer.
I’m really thankful that I had a great English teacher in high school, and that my degree required a technical writing class. Being able to write a coherent email got me further in my career than the technical stuff I learned in college.
Which is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.