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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aliases are just bloat! You can do just fine without them. Heck, why not remove the ASCII conversion and read everything in hex or binary?

It's all about SPEED and efficiency here!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm in DevOps so I'm in a lot of effemerial systems so in practice, I will run into systems where profile hasn't been set up. Tho I do like the idea of making sure all systems properly have that aliased cause it'd be serial killer vibes to spend hours of time to make sure that I can save a keystroke.

Tho it'd never make it through PR. Also, wild require explaining to my coworkers that I do this