Yes, but they usually came at the same price.

dd literally has the nickname “disk destroyer”, and it is a well-earned title. Once you have a bad default choice and no pre-installed alternative, you’ll have at minimum 3 competing tools. Just the way the world works.

In my experience, if you didn’t write the function that creates the list, there’s a solid chance it could be None too, and if you try to check the length of None, you get an error. This is also why returning None when a function fails is bad practice IMO, but that doesn’t seem to stop my coworkers.

I too know how to run sed -r!

I could have sworn there is a puffer fish-themed SSH file manager GUI, but I can’t for the life of me find it right now.

Python does not need to be compiled, have you ever used it?

Can you please articulate why Python and Bash are so different in your eyes?

I don’t like that solution because that means Huffman walks away with a golden payday instead of losing it all.

You must not have checked any financial news lately…

24601!

He doesn’t need to keep his system working, he can probably pay someone for that. He needs something that will maximize engagement, and a million “I use arch BTW” comments is exactly what he wants.