Affine Connection

Now do a standard pax command.

You stole my comment.

So many of the results I see are incredibly obvious fakes.

Yes, but they were satisfied when IBM was given a license to use JSLint for evil.

Windows contains a lot of stuff proprietarily licensed to Microsoft, so they don’t have an option to turn all of it into free software even if they wanted to.

dd does not stand for “disk duplicator”. That’s a modern backronymization that doesn’t reflect the original general usage of the command which is to “convert and copy”. Efficiently (with respect to I/O) copying raw data is only one of its intended purposes; it also converts text encodings.

C was built mostly to abstract from assembly

That’s actually not true; rather, many modern architectures are designed to allow languages like C to be compiled more easily. Old architectures don’t even have a built-in stack.

Because sometimes one has no choice, be it for your job, or hardware support, etc.

Unfortunately, there is some scientific and medical equipment that only supports Microsoft Windows (often obsolete versions, which is even worse).

Maybe about 4-5 years ago, I read through the source to find obscure undocumented features of a couple system calls that allowed me to write a detailed system/process monitor utility that does things that nothing else seems to know about.

I agree that Wayland is better than X, but only because X is worse than Satan. If you like X11 better than Wayland, you don’t know anything about X.

Liking X11 is illegal here.

Ed Is The Standard Text Editor

ed, ex, and vi are all standard, required text editors in the Single Unix Specification.

I got all the landscape ones correct—except for one—by applying my limited knowledge of art technique.

You can’t have total internal reflection within a hollow core, but that’s not how they function.

But then the filename wouldn’t be /^[[:alnum:]._-]*~*$/.

.C came first. I don’t usually use it though; I usually use .cc or .cxx, but if I’m making some tiny test source, I often use .C. I’m strongly opposed to the .cpp extension because calling C++ “CPP” leads to confusion with the preexisting (before C++) use of the initialism to refer to the C preprocessor. There’s a reason why CPPFLAGS refers to preprocessor flags and CXXFLAGS refers to C++ flags.

You also talk to the rapist.

I look forward to finding out how it’s actually much worse than meets the eye. [emphasis added]

It this schadenfreude because you hate Canonical and their Snap system?

It would be better if the workers were actually paid enough.

[[ is not a POSIX shell feature.