zen of stack overflow

[iliana]

Resurrecting a bit of mine from cohost. Here's today's this week's this whenever's zen:

Be very wary when linking to the so-called Advanced Bash Scripting Guide; it contains a mixture of good advice and terrible.

[lifning]

you have much better stackoverflow RNG than me. i've been keeping an eye out ever since you started doing these and nothing's even come close to these levels of poignancy

[snow]

This answer was pretty much copy and pasted from the source.

As it should be.

[semaphore]

You get a body diode whether you want it or not.

[iliana]

You've omitted a lot of information, but what you show here doesn't make sense.

[snow]

Like any good engineer, in the face of limits imposed by the laws of nature, we cheat and get around those limits anyway.