Huh. tar tf and unzip -l. I’m not sure I’d even bother to write a shell function to combine them, much less install software.

Zips just exploding to files is so common, if you just mkdir unzpd ; unzip -d unzpd file.zip it’s going to be right nearly all of the time. Same with tarballs always containing a directory; it’s just so common it’s barely worth checking.

You write the tools you need, don’t get me wrong. This seems like, at most, a 10-line bash function, and even that seems excessive.

function pear() {
case $1 in
  *.zip)
    unzip -l "$1"
    ;;
  *.tar.*)
    tar tf "$1"
    ;;
esac
}

Gini is wealth and income inequality, which is States in the page you linked. In developed nations, income inequality is strongly correlated to wealth inequality.

The Gini index for Russia was 0.88; the US was 0.85. There was more of a delta between US in 2008 and US 2021 than that. There’s more difference between the US and almost every other western developed country in 2021, than there was between Russia and the US in 2021. Russia is higher; it’s not much higher.

The US entered into it when you replied to the comment:

Average monthly salary in USD: $1256

the only possible reason was to put it in US context. Not just USD, but US salary, which is specifically a US thing. Your reply was that it was a huge deal in Russia because of wealth inequality, implying, via your response to a comment about US salaries, that it wouldn’t be a huge deal in the US. To which I suggested it was, because the US, too, has a wealth disparity similar to Russia’s.

What’s confusing about that?

No, not on porpoise.

Well, once someone converted it to dollars and started comparing it to costs in the US, it kind of opened the topic, don’t you think?

Also, according to both the link you provided and the income inequality page by country, the US and Russia are on par; they both have Gini coefficients of 85-90, and PIP (poverty & inequality plaform) indexes in the 35-40 range.

Which metric did you see that says Russia’s wealth inequality is worse than the US’s?

They were absolutely having sporadic outages a few days ago, but they’ve been Ok recently.

No, this is a specific configuration Midwest.social has enabled. It actually modifies posts and replaces external image links with proxies through the Midwest.social server. It results in really slow image serving in posts, and frequently outright breaks images. The server is also not correctly configured for mime types, so SVGs aren’t served properly: even if the origin has the right mime-type, the forced proxy breaks the mime-type. So I can’t embed SVGs on this account.

I appreciate the service, but I’m really going to have to abandon this account. The comment modification and hijacking of image links doesn’t feel right.

I have no idea! It seems to be the human material. Have you ever heard of a solution? I can be aware of it and resist it, but what I hate is that instinctive, negative impulse, and I don’t think wishing it away is going to help.

I’d love to watch it once, but Imgur blocks VPNs.

There isn’t a massive disparity between the wealthiest and poorest in the US?

Ok, so preface: this isn’t about you. Your comment just coalesced something I’ve been ruminating about recently.

I wish we, as humans, didn’t have this knee-jerk tenancy to make everything a zero-sum competition. Vi vs EMACS. x86 vs ARM. Windows vs Mac vs Linux vs FreeBSD. C vs Go vs Rust vs Clojure vs JavaScript. Arch vs the world.

It really is a zero-sum game, with real consequences. If your favorite distro becomes unpopular enough, it might die, and then you have to give up something you love. Windows winning the OS market for decades meant countless people had to suffer using Windows because the company they worked for mandated it. If I crusade for V(lang) enough, it might become popular enough for jobs to open for it.

The downside is that we’re constantly fighting against diversity, and that’s bad.

I suffer from this as much as anyone, and I hate that my first impulse is to either tear down “the opposition”, which at some point is nearly everyone, or schadenfreude.

“It is not enough that I succeed, but that others should fail.” It can’t be healthy.

I miss the days when every package came with a man page.

Every respectable package; don’t come at me, pendants.

groan

You also lose the option of PoE with fiber, although TBH in all my years I’ve never used it.

I’m just bitter because I bought a big roll of Cat6 a couple years ago and it cost an arm and a leg. The same length of multimode fiber would have been a fraction, and I’d probably get better speeds.

The prices for devices on Amazon aren’t significantly different for switches, although if your devices are all ethernet (and they probably are) then you have to add the cost of the trancievers. Still, cheap switches are comparable, and the enterprise stuff jumps up an other of magnitude on both sides.

If more devices came with fiber sockets, it’d be cheaper to run fiber just for the cable price difference.

It does seem there’s more diversity in fiber that might make consumer standardization harder. There’s single vs multi-mode cabling, SC and LC connectors, simplex and duplex, and even the polishing types aren’t all incompatible. So, there aren’t any clear choices to offer to clients, and it’d be more confusing for many consumers. Ethernet is, basically, ethernet, unless you’re a network engineer chasing specs.

i dug around on Alibaba and found SFP fiber for $10/km. Insane.

And, yes, that got me started down a rabbit hole of home fiber. It is odd that home devices with fiber options aren’t more common. I’m sure someone will say, “why? Ethernet is good enough,” but again: fiber wire (cable?) costs are a fraction of ethernet, especially if you’re going for the high speed rating. I don’t see prices for switches and connectors on Amazon being outrageous, for multi-mode.

Here’s me, just tooling along extending ethernet and running fiber was so as expensive as it was ten years ago. Ethernet for sure still is.

That’s crazy! Thanks for the links, it’s fascinating. Fiber technology has really passed me by.

I’m finding that technology has changed a lot since I last looked into this, but glass fiber was not known for its flexibility. For guided rockets, I can see that wouldn’t be much of an issue, but for the maneuvers those drones make it seems fiber would not have some downsides. Do you mean the winged drones?

Dang. That link gives me a page not found, but if that’s network quality, it’s hella cheaper per foot than ethernet. Why am I still running cat6 in my house?

I don’t know about the TOW2, but I was an Infantry tester in 1988 when the Army was evaluating the TOW replacement contenders; I was in the Bofur’s Bill team. No wires, and double the range of the wired alternatives.

The Army went with the TOW2, in the end, which surprised none of us. And Bofur’s was tight-lipped about the technology, but us gunners were fairly sure that it was fly-by-laser.

That was so long ago, I wonder if any details have been published in the meanwhile. They acted as if there construction was a state secret, at the time.

It was waaay before any sort of flexible fiber optics; copper wire seems like it’d be cheaper.

I can think if plenty of situations where system time is

• Optional
• Unreliable
• And even potentially disallowed by the user

In fact, if you don’t set up your containers right, the system time is almost always wrong.

Are the drones actually dragging around cable? Oh! Are these from guided anti-material munitions? That would make sense! I thought someone was laying fiber optics for some reason.

I wonder what the environmental impact of this is. This can’t be glass, right? Plastic?