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4:25 PM

I hardly cook

Do people here follow the primary?

Have Americans here chosen their candidates?

@Tim Guy Fieri

Come on. Have some political enthusiasm.
Anyone else feeling the Bern?

Ansible vs Chef: why do you use which?

@Tim I'm enthusiastic about unburned food cooked by a chef, like Guy Fieri

There is no evidence that Bernie has ever even been to flavor town

4:41 PM

Is leeroy feeling the bern?

@Tim Not anymore, he shaved the affected area and applied the cream for 3-6 weeks and it went away.

I am here in the chatroom canvassing for Bernie

as a volunteer

5:04 PM

@Tim An odd place to canvass.

5:28 PM

Wat up @FaheemMitha

Hi @jesse_b. How goes it?

@FaheemMitha Pretty good, seems like you've been online less lately.

@jesse_b I've been online. Perhaps not that active in chat.

@FaheemMitha Are you still battling organized crime?

@jesse_b I'm not sure what you mean. I think maybe you've got me confused with Batman.

5:39 PM

@FaheemMitha You were in the middle of some organized crime ring involving your housing management or something

@jesse_b I think you mean my family Trust.

@FaheemMitha Odd name for a criminal syndicate but I guess they usually refer to themselves as a family

@jesse_b No, my family Trust means what it says.

It's my family/relatives on my mothers side. Not my immediate family.

Not nice people, mostly. But I've actually covered that here already, I think.

I trust the weightlifting is going well.

@FaheemMitha Not bad, having trouble gaining weight though

@jesse_b Why do you want to gain weight?

5:58 PM

@FaheemMitha muscle has mass

@jesse_b True, but that doesn't answer the question. Do you mean you want more muscle?

@FaheemMitha Yes but really just weight in general

6:16 PM

@jesse_b I have some weight you can have! Unfortunately, it's less transportable than a cut tree.

@JeffSchaller A little extra weight is probably beneficial for lumberjacking

@jesse_b ohhhh, if I was a lumberjack, I'd be okay

@JeffSchaller You're at least an amateur lumberjack

@jesse_b I am indeed! Don't do it often, don't get paid for it. But I do enjoy it.

My home depot has some used makita chainsaws for sale from their tool rental department for like $130 each. I might pick one up

6:21 PM

Monty Python - Lumberjack Song

I could see getting a used chainsaw

They look relatively undamaged

Small engines generally don't die

Although a rental tool has definitely had a lot of 300lb gorillas giving it a good share of hot suppers

new chain, new spark plug, probably good-to-go. 130 seems high for a used one, though

yeah, I'd be afraid

These saws retail for $350

but yeah I see ones cheaper from private sellers on buy/sell sites and they are probably better maintained

ahhh, not familiar with Makita's prices. I'm seeing my local home depot with basic ones in the $100-200 range

neither of which will help with either of our weight issues, unless used very carefully

@JeffSchaller hah

@JeffSchaller I believe it's this model: homedepot.com/p/…

6:28 PM

> Single choke/run/touch stop switch adds convenience

boy, sure glad they made that part of tree work easier

I really broke a sweat moving TWO pieces of plastic to start the thing

hah

marketing wank

I like Makita though, they still make a lot of stuff in good ol Japan

"we need to make up a reason to push out a new model with a higher price"

Almost every other tool company is 100% made in China

I remember a previous chat conversation we had where the page advertised something like "less fatigue"

although most of their power tools are made in China now which probably includes that saw

6:30 PM

Mar 19 '18 at 12:59, by Jeff Schaller

"Engineered with smooth rounded surfaces for comfort, reducing operator fatigue" -- be sure to get a refund if you're tired afterwards ;)

heh

Rounded edges are nice though. A lot of steel hand tools come with rough edges and you can really improve them with a few minutes on a belt sander and buffer

The finishing touches on tools is something that is mostly lost, tools from the early 1900s had a much better finish

I like it when people think about design; like when the air compressor has a holding area for all the various connectors

woot finally got my 1000th bash upvote :)

user image

at least, sometime later tonight when the batch job runs :)

@JeffSchaller Yeah unless I get some downvotes in between I guess :p

6:37 PM

@jesse_b if not today, then soon, I'm sure it'll come!

@JeffSchaller Yeah I'm in no rush, I tried hard to find and answer bash questions when I was around 980 points and found that bash questions get answered quick so I decided to just let it happen when it happens

@jesse_b I hit the same problem; I settled on finding questions that hadn't been answered in a way that I would think of. Then I wonder how I'm wrong, then I consider answering :)

The "fastest gun" answering idea also hits the problem of questions being mis-tagged; so if you answer a bash question, I might come along and retag it, just fer-instance :)

@JeffSchaller You removed the bash tag from a question I answered yesterday that said "Bash script" in the title :p

I have some inscrutable passion for cleaning up bash-tagged questions. And others, but bash is a frequent offender

you're welcome!

aligning text has nothing to do with bash :) the same change would have worked in csh or zsh

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Q: align text bash script

I'm writing a script that will check the many applications services. I have the script looping through the services. Just looking for the best way to align the output text. Here is the code: services=( 'MonTier-AppAdmin' 'MonTier-Derby' 'MonTier-es-raw-trans-Nodes-1' 'MonTie...

shell-script text-formatting printf

Yeah not really about bash to be fair

6:43 PM

but of course, if everyone misunderstands it the same way, then I'm wrong, so it's probably a losing battle

I've been doing it for 5 years now

(4 & change, to be less precise and more accurate)

@jesse_b I have some spare downvotes if you want them ..... for free .... just ask .... ;-P

I heard Jesse wanted to learn patience ;)

@JeffSchaller I never heard of such computer language, hmmmm, patience you said, a peaceful name it seems. It sure should have all the rough corners smoothed and rounded for comfort. :-)

@Isaac indeed! Although it it sometimes fatiguing

@JeffSchaller :)

6:50 PM

#!/bin/patience

while: fatigued {
set patience++
}

cut-down-tree() { sleep 200 years; }

until ! tree; do source '/dev/chat/Jeff Schaller'; done

If anyone agrees, please vote to reopen this question: unix.stackexchange.com/q/570265/237982

They've had a rough start (unix.stackexchange.com/questions/570291/…)

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