> When you show up as a marketer and say, “I need to sell you this because my commission is on the line. I need to sell you this because I’ve decided this is what I do for a living.” You’re not showing any empathy. You’re being a selfish, short-term narcissist, which is what most marketers are.

> You show up and say, “It sounds like you need this. My competitor sells that. Here’s their phone number.” You’re being a human.

> If you’re not willing to eagerly recommend a competitor who sells a solution you don’t sell, then we’ve gotten to the truth of who you are and what you’re seeking to do. If you are willing to do that, then there is somebody for who you have the right solution. Find that person. Don’t try to persuade the other people that they’re wrong.

- Seth Godin

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3B...

It's difficult to just do things. Even windows feels more "free." Phone OSes are built like prisons.

Ideally Android would let you drop into a real shell, without having to deal with android sandboxing.

Regardless, I use termux and tasker to get my automations done.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776527

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The --dry-run flag of parallel made me confident to do more batch processing than I ever did with xargs.

Parallel has an option for almost everything, it's almost too much.

But I have shopped around for alternatives. The creator Ole Tange maintains a painstakingly long article of the alternatives and their differences. [0]

The gnu parallel book and reading materials [1] are excellent too.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_alternatives....

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/#Tutorial

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Do you use Syncthing or something else to sync your performance history between devices?

  $ mani exec --all --output table --parallel 'find . -type f | wc -l'
  
   Project            | Output
  --------------------+--------
   example            | 31016
   pinto              | 14444
   dashgrid           | 16527
   template-generator | 42

https://github.com/alajmo/mani

Few people are able to see through the eyes of a beginner, when they are a master.

The 4th one is a pain to teach. Every other file and directory has spaces... so I encourage liberal use of the TAB key for beginners.

Some workplaces:

- penalize black women for having natural hairstyles like locs

- make Sikhs remove turbans

- deny chosen names and pronouns

There are entire swaths of groups who can't be their authentic selves.

I'd rather take the pain of writing scripts to automate this for multiple environments than suffer the death by a thousand cuts which are the defaults.

The best part about sharing your config or knowledge is that someone will always light up your blind spots.

It's not a problem on pc, but an obsidian vault with thousands of notes can have a laggy startup on mobile, even if you disable plugins.

Users sidestep this issue with quick capture plugins and apps, but I wish there was a native stripped-down version of obsidian.

Supporting open source creates competition for your paid alternative, so they're forced to give you a better product or a better deal.