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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help understanding a back-up script⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Won’t this delete the two newest files, as opposed to everything except the two newest files?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help understanding a back-up script⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just looked up the man page, and actually head -n -2 means “everything up to but not including the last two lines”, so this should always leave two files remaining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help understanding a back-up script⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah! This is a shell pipe! It’s composing several smaller commands together, cool stuff.

  • ls -1 is the grep-friendly version of ls, it prints one entry per line, like a shopping list.
  • head takes a set number of entries from the head of a list, in this case 2 items.
  • xargs takes the incoming pipe and converts it into extra arguments, in this case applying those arguments to rm.

  So, combined, this says “list all the .dump files, pick the first two, and delete them.” Presumably the first two are the oldest ones, if the .dump files are named chronologically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immune to marketing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you but your tone is way too violent, we should be helping people learn from their mistakes, not infantilizing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some great open source games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Like many open source games, it has that distinctly ‘alpha’ feel to it right now, but I do enjoy NodeCore on occasion. It’s a zen minimalist block game with a unique diagetic crafting system. Instead of a traditional “recipe book” or “crafting grid”, you produce new materials through in-world transformations. For instance, to make glass, you have to surround sand with fire, and to control fire, you basically want to build a deliberately-shaped dirt or stone pit… the whole thing feels a little like minecraft and a little like a sand physics sim or cellular automata.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think part of the problem is just that there are a lot more good games that people know about! Unfortunately one of the tradeoffs for all the riches of heaven is that it’s a lot harder to cover them all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super Crazy Rhythm Castle - Release Date Reveal | Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope it gets a PC port. I’m done with Switch exclusives.

• Controllers with paddles?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨klay’s simple cookbook for Linux, v0.9.0⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Very high praise! Let me know what they find helpful or frustrating!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨klay’s simple cookbook for Linux, v0.9.0⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  ah, well spotted! I’ll fix that, whoops

• klay’s simple cookbook for Linux, v0.9.0klay.gay ↗
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