If you are manipulating files and processes, bash is a very natural and succint language to do so. Programs are much more elegant than a generic programming language.

> though I believe the concept of the ‘external drive’ itself should be deprecated

why?

I think they’re problematic because they’ve reached ungodly amounts of storage and I don’t think most non-technical people fully understand how much of a loaded gun a non-regularly-backed-up 2TB external HDD is.

As a real world example, I’ve had to help recover my aunt’s 5-year-old 2TB HDD that she dropped several times and had no backup of, and by helping I mean confirming she probably lost a terabyte plus of data unless she wants to pay five digits USD to pay to a recovery company for a way less than 100% recovery. She is a highly educated professional (a MD) and yet, it did not even occur to her that the drive will not only might fail, but rather, will fail.

To quite a lot of non-technical people an external drive appears to be the safest form of storage, considering its being physically visible and movable. The closest analogy is storing money under the pillow versus a in bank, in all the good and bad ways.

> Warren buffet said if he could go back he would just put tons of money in an index and wait.

So?

Why?

“DevOps” is currently a hot buzzword in the industry, many non-technical people in management hear about DevOps and how it’s good but do not understand what it is. They proceed to conflate DevOps culture as a position or individual skill and seek out to hire anyone with the term on their resume.

Well that and the hodgepodge of skills that make up DevOps are not taught in university yet are desired from candidates who have established years of being a DevOps Engineer but given the field's infancy are in short supply.

Wow even release downloads were taken down

  $ brew install youtube-dl
  ...
  ==> Downloading https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/download/2020.09.20/youtube-dl-2020.09.20.tar.gz
  ...
  curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons
  Error: Failed to download resource "youtube-dl"
  Download failed: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/download/2020.09.20/youtube-dl-2020.09.20.tar.gz

> Putting it out there as an idea, might inspire others and might help.

Yeah I agree, maybe it's broscience but maybe it will spark something interesting and to me that's worth trying and sharing.

That said, to be honest I didn't read past the abstract as I don't have the time but cool idea :)

> (dev surveys show Linux being far more popular though).

Hmm, this is hard to believe. It might be a selection bias, maybe Linux users are just more likely to answer these developer surveys, no?

Could be a flawed survey (Comment was based on stackoverflow's). I generally like a lot about each of the three big OSs and yet I hate certain aspects of each of them.

I don't have a strong favorite myself.

Probably just benzodiazepines labeled "LSD off switch" to make money off the increasing interest in psychedelics.

I saw the same thing a while ago and deleted it. I got my first job in a different country easily without LinkedIn. I see no value in LinkedIn for job hunting, many of the ads are just links to different job boards or application forms that I have to fill out or upload my CV to anyway.

Ironically I created a LinkedIn again after starting this job, I think mostly to flex on my exciting new job and measuring myself against my peers from college, while some small part of me also thought it could be important for networking. If you really want to keep in touch with peers from college you will find a better and much more genuine way of doing so. If you want to network maybe it can be a useful tool but I'm not sure stroking each other's ego is the best way to do that.

Once again I was coming to the conclusion that it's a useless and pointless platform (like most social networks, but that's another topic). My feed right now is nothing but cringe memes, humblebrags, and weird flexing. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I think I will delete it for real this time.

Also GitLab