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gilcot··on Total Commander
For GNU/Linux, you have Midnight Commander

https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc.git

gilcot··on Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness
What the hell do you mean by "porting git to Windows properly"?
gilcot··on Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness
Same here. Still seeing some Solaris alive too.
gilcot··on Ask HN: Why did Python win?
Good points.
gilcot··on Ask HN: Why did Python win?
I think people were not ready to switch from some heavy established software. Also by that time, costless was seen as less qualitative (certainly because organisations are happy with licences and are always looking for support contract ?) Coming later, when the market(?) is ready, made R more successful.

I think people used to compare to established standard and detractors are always there to point out missing stuffs, giving impression that Octave or Scilab are behind. Coming with a radical different language, R was condemned to quickly succeed or perish, and anyway avoid direct and frontal comparisons.

gilcot··on Ask HN: Why did Python win?
Tcl also influenced many Microsoft Powershell aspects.
gilcot··on Ask HN: Why did Python win?
> Ruby embraces the many ways to accomplish something, it's true.

Far less true than with Perl.

In another hand, many questions I asked about Python came with various way to do the stuff. So I'm not sure about that advertisement.

gilcot··on Rust 1.72.0
Thanks for that clarification. Wasn't obvious for everybody at first read.
gilcot··on A half-hour to learn Rust (2020)
Only if you have to compile once. :)
gilcot··on macOS 13.5 no longer allows setting system wide ulimits
Thanks.
gilcot··on Ghana's MPs pass bill criminalising witchcraft accusation
Like the Salem case…
gilcot··on Debian is at the heart of the most successful Linux distros
Here, in France, established companies like dealing with big established providers and feel happy with licence contracts. Plus, a version last at least five years. (to compete Ubuntu had to come with four years LTS...) So when they have to use a GNU/Linux distribution, they tend to choose RHEL (Novell could have been a good choice but I don't know why they're not known or not well.) Many countries in Europe and in French speaking Africa countries also love RHEL. Consequence: when you couldn't sign/subscribe for RHEL, you pick CentOS.
gilcot··on $HOME, not so sweet $HOME
You computer is yours …and you are not forced to use maker's app. Well sources are opened, so you can change things to suit your needs instead of considering makers as your slaves can't you? :)
gilcot··on $HOME, not so sweet $HOME
My settings documents are also my documents, so I want my ${program}rc to be right there too. I don't install 30+ stupid programs so I don't feel polluted, that's so simple.
gilcot··on micro – A Modern Alternative to nano
Last time I try it, I wasn't able to figure out an equivalence of « d)Gp »
gilcot··on micro – A Modern Alternative to nano
I've been told that IBM and Microsoft though that sending application commands with dedicated key sequences wouldn't be useful. Function keys should suffice (so I think Midnight/Total Commander interfaces are the right one to expect) but later IBM came with CUDA…
gilcot··on Why does email development have to suck? – Explaining all the <tr>'s and <td>'s
As previously written: Treat your customers like customers, not consumers.

Or worse then, like idiots that cannot understand a simple sentence and write back « YES »

gilcot··on Why does email development have to suck? – Explaining all the <tr>'s and <td>'s
That's certainly why you aren't good fishing candidate like many people ;-)
gilcot··on Ask HN: Can you recommend me a fast, light text editor for Windows?
+1 for GVim. Every time I'm forced to work on Windows OS, I first install GVim.
gilcot··on Show HN: Automation the KISS way. No YAML involved
> For example instead of giving each command as arguments, there could be a "library of scripts", and the user can choose one of those to run on each remote host. Then those scripts could be written in whatever language the user chooses (`bash`, Python, Ruby, etc.)

For running scripts from a library, I've used ByJG's automate.sh[1] that call'em recipes. Unlike z-run, they're bash only and there's no select menu and looks simpler.

[1] https://github.com/byjg/automate

gilcot··on Show HN: Automation the KISS way. No YAML involved
>> how tricorder handles calls to multiple nodes

> Sequentially, one after the other,

> […] Ansible does things sequentially too.

No, call to nodes aren't sequential, but by parallel batches where tasks are sequential. Here's an interesting reading on those aspects: https://ansiblefrombasics.blogspot.com/2017/09/serial-limit-...

gilcot··on Show HN: Automation the KISS way. No YAML involved
> I think the ability to target more restrictively would be a fantastic addition, largely because I could imagine the tags being used in a way the example doesn't cover: DC/AZ/Region tags.

> I don't know that a full parser for Boolean logic is necessary - even having a complimentary `-T` option that takes mandatory tag names might be enough.

Here's how the targeted concurrent is doing it: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_pat...

gilcot··on Show HN: Automation the KISS way. No YAML involved
At first look, your z-run remind me a helper[1] I use sometimes.

For massive remote executions, I often use dssh[2] program or similar.

I think that tricorder belongs to that later category and isn't a true library of scripts dispatcher.

[1] https://github.com/lucaswerkmeister/cheats

[2] http://sigpipe.io/dssh

gilcot··on Please put units in names
You can't just copy data, it's said to be they're factor k (i.e. 10^3) hahaha Even switching to "speed_mph" still makes the warning/comment relevant: that just means that "m" is for "miles" and not "meters"
gilcot··on Please put units in names
Long before that, very flexible units management was seen on HP-28 then HP-48 series.
gilcot··on Thoughts on Markdown
Plus, you can have nice stuffs like:

    \section[short title in toc]{very very long title at page}
and stared version. Those two things, Markdown cannot do, show the power of that syntax ovec simple bangs starting the line.
gilcot··on Thoughts on Markdown
With the former, can you items of many paragraphs and other complex stuffs one sometimes need in a complex/advanced document? So you can understand why LaTeX had to go the less naive way MarkDown did.
gilcot··on Thoughts on Markdown
Maybe it has something to do with emergence and domination of plateforms like github? Just wondering…
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