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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • We’re not facing a problem, we’re in a predicament.

    We always have, we always will

    That’s a statement of religious faith. We have barely ever even existed so it’s plainly nonsense, and there is no rule of the universe that we must continue to exist or that we cannot unfixably destroy our planet’s ability to support us. You’re just baselessly asserting “they’ll think of something”.










  • I had an old waxed cotton bike poncho made by some hippies in Oregon or something that was great, but wore out and they’re shut down their business. I bought a Cleverhood.

    Gotta say, it’s adequate, but not particularly good. The hand loops are crude and awkward. Inexplicably it’s made out of breathable fabric, which is pointless in a poncho, as a core poncho upside is plentiful airflow underneath, plus you only wear it when it’s actively raining at which point any breathable fabric ceases breathing. My shoulders get damp where they touch the cloth, and that didn’t happen with my fully waterproof waxed cotton one.

    I’m tempted to clean, fix, and rewax my old poncho as it did a better job, albeit it was heavier and more bulky.


  • Your imagination is not serving you well. Ponchos do catch the wind and are very much not aero, but they generally have loops or something for your hands to hold them in place, and are never long enough to go down to your wheels, that would be lethal.

    Their biggest downsides is they don’t protect your knees and below, and they flap around in the wind, and may obscure lights and cameras on your handlebars if you’re not careful. They’re also worthless unless you have full fenders/mudguards.

    But they’re great in warm weather because ventilation is excellent, even if they’re made of cheap fully waterproof material. Indeed there’s little point in making them out of breathable material because it’ll only make a fractional improvement, and you generally only wear them when it’s actively raining, and when it’s wet, breathable material isn’t breathable any more anyway.

    They’re also easy to put on and take off over clothes so for utilitarian/transportation use when you don’t change clothes at either end they’re extra convenient.






  • I don’t even now how anyone keeps track of them and finds the ones they want. And how can you possibly do that quicker than just going to the page afresh.

    Part of working on a project for me is assembling links to important pages. It may be days, weeks or months later that I want to come back and there are the links. And of course, anything generically or regularly useful is just a bookmark as you say.

    It really seems like people keep tabs open just to keep a list of useful pages. There are much easier and more effective ways to do that.


  • No, it’s a shell feature. Terminal emulators don’t even know what shell are running typically, and I haven’t heard of them adding shell features. That would require the terminal emulator knowing you’re using bash, knowing how to interrogate history etc…

    From man bash:

           yank-last-arg (M-., M-_)
                  Insert  the last argument to the previous command (the last word
                  of the previous history entry).  With a numeric argument, behave
                  exactly  like  yank-nth-arg.   Successive calls to yank-last-arg
                  move back through the history list, inserting the last word  (or
                  the  word  specified  by the argument to the first call) of each
                  line in turn.  Any numeric argument supplied to these successive
                  calls  determines  the direction to move through the history.  A
                  negative argument switches the  direction  through  the  history
                  (back or forward).  The history expansion facilities are used to
                  extract the last word, as if the "!$" history expansion had been
                  specified.