This feels like gatekeeping someone sharing something cool they've recently learned.
replyI personally lean more towards the "let's share cool little productivity tips and tricks with one another" instead of the "in order to share this you have to meet [entirely arbitrary line of novelty/cleverness/originality]."
But each to their own I suppose. I wonder how you learned about using xargs? Maybe a blog-post or article not dissimilar to this one?
I don't think there's anything wrong with sharing something cool, even if it's trivial to other people. The problem is framing a blog post with "ooh this was buried in the secret leaked CIA material".. and then the reader opens it to find out it's just xargs. It feels very clickbaity. Akin to "here's one simple trick to gain a treasure trove of information about all the secret processes running on your system!!" and it's just ps.
replyIt felt almost like satire to me, especially with the name "ciaclean".
replyNo I agree with you. This whole aura of "well IIIII knew this and YOUUUUU didnt" needs to die. I get that it's sometimes redundant and frustrating to encounter the same question a few times... but there's always new people learning in this world, and they deserve a chance to learn too.
replyWhy do people constantly have to be looking for any way to justify their sense of superiority over others? Collaborative attitudes are so much better for all involved.
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replyAnd they have to learn that from cia?
replyThat says so much about the generation we are in, just don’t go to school but learn math from mafia
Where else would you learn about triple-entry bookkeeping?
replyLots of negative sentiment on your comment, but I was going to write the same. Hopefully AI won’t make us forget that good command line tools are designed to be chained together if you want to achieve something that’s perhaps too niche as a use case to make it into a native command. It’s worth learning about swiss army utilities like xargs that make this easy (and fun)
replyIt's cool that it comes from CIA, and someone who doesn't know about xargs may just learn something new. What is not to like?
replySeriously, this seems like someone in awe of xargs. Maybe its the Bell Labs in me but this is boilerplate stuff.
replyPeople really do need to read the “Unix Power Tools” book and realize their problem has been solved for decades.
reply"People just need to find the info they don't know about, so then they'll know it."
replyI don't find that the insinuation of the parent comment at all.
replySaying "If you read X book, you'll realize it's a solved problem" IS the information -- the name of the book you need to read
People need to be curious. Then they seek out the info they don't know about.
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