Hacker News Reader

throwaway31381on Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

I like my custom emoji, that's about it.

>The marque feature either "50MB uploads" (Nitro Basic) or "500MB uploads" (Nitro). Is this per file, per day, per month?

Per-file upload limit, it used to be 8 MiB until april which made it worth paying nitro for some.

throwaway31381on Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well

I won't deny the useful additions GNU and BSD made to the barebones UNIX tools, but just by skimming the ls man page I can list some flags whose addition wasn't caused by the Unix Philosophy's limitation:

  -1 list one file per line
  -C list entries by columns
  -t sort by time, newest first; see --time
  -r, --reverse reverse order while sorting
  -S sort by file size, largest first
  --sort=WORD sort by WORD instead of name: none (-U), size (- 
  S), time (-t), version (-v), extension (-X), width

throwaway31381on Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well

I don't believe GNU's triumph over the BSD derivates was for the most part technical, they just happened to be at the right moment at the right time to ride along Linux's success.

A consequence of the proliferation of arguments in the GNU tools is imho that it made the GNU manpages too verbose and information dense to the detriment of their usefulness.

throwaway31381on Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well

>But ... firstly, let's stop with the Unix worship. They didn't deliver, even in the domain of the terminal. My copy of `ls` has at least 40 flags

GNU is Not Unix.

I count 13 flags on both Unix V10 [1] and on Plan 9 [2], its spiritual successor.

[1] http://man.cat-v.org/unix_10th/1/ls

[2] http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/ls