greetings, everybody!

Wish everyone a good day!

Hey @Tim how have you been?

I just became unemployed, so I can revisit the hard drive problem that happened one and half a year ago, and find things that I like to study

how about you?

working on a dhcp problem in hong kong

are you physically in HK?

I am not

that is a fine foot @finefoot

@jesse_b Haha thanks. I was confused about where that notification sound came from. Because I'm not used to getting pinged in the chat since I rarely use it. Was just here to look something up from a while ago. ;)

why didn't \exit force my system to use the actual exit command? I thought that was essentially equivalent to using command exit

it's a shell built-in; I don't have an exit binary anywhere; my shell exits when I run that; yours doesn't?

$ declare -f exit
exit ()
{
    if [[ $SHLVL -eq 1 ]] && [[ $BASHPID == $$ ]]; then
        printf '%s\n' "Nice try!" 1>&2;
    else
        command exit $1;
    fi
}

I was trying to bypass that with \exit but I guess that doesn't work in all contexts?

I have a script that replaces git on my system and if I use \git it will use the actual git command instead

Ahhh; the backslash just prevents alias expansion; probably doesn't bypass functions

"The first word of each simple command, if unquoted, is checked to see if it has an alias. If so, that word is replaced by the text of the alias." (backslash quotes the e)

makes sense, thanks

You buying activision Jeff?

then I've done my good deed for the day! that takes the pressure off the rest of the day :)

only thing I'm buying is a loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter; and these days I'm lucky to remember the stick of butter

I think it's a pretty safe bet. Microsoft is going to buy them at 68.7 billion and they are currently selling at 58.9 billion

(catching up on the news -- I can't get over the "all cash 68 billion dollar deal" part)

pretty easy 25% return as long as the deal goes through

which I think it will. microsoft and activision combined is only 14% of the gaming industry so it's kind of a stretch to call it a monopoly

plus activision hired nanci pelosi's former chief of staff to lobby the deal

"Our job is to make sure that U.K. gamers are not caught in the crossfire of global deals..."

hurray, the economy of online gamers is being protected? and: weird phrasing!

sounds like a pretty lame job

I have a feeling it's all just smoke and mirrors so nobody can claim they didn't do their job

I think there will also be a lot of clickbait headlines between now and august like "New information released could be the end of the microsoft/activision deal!" and that will cause the stock price to plummet but ultimately the trial will be uneventful and the deal will go through

$75 to $95 is good but if I can get $60 to $95 that will be even better