Not sure that I understand.

What's hard about `restic -r /media/ehecatl42/t14g3-backup/t14g3-restic-repo restore latest --target /home/ehecatl42/Desktop/nvim-restore/ --include /home/ehecatl42/.config/nvim/`* and just `cp`ing your missing files from that.

* From my recent .bash_history

If you want to make a point about something being “not hard” maybe using a less messy command would bring that point across better ;)

It may look messy but this is really the minimal amount of info. You need the location of backup, operation, time for restoration, pattern to restore and the destination. If you already set up the backup part of restic, then this command shouldn't be hard to understand / reproduce at all.

You could maybe default to latest and default to restoring to ".", but that carries some risks. This is only as complex as necessary.

> this command shouldn't be hard to understand

I understand the command, I'm just questioning the example if they want to do some positive marketing for the tool. Something simple like the following gives the same information but is much more understandable than unnecessarily convoluted directory names.

    restic -r /backups/restic restore latest --target /home/dewey --include /home/dewey/myfile.txt

The real world isn't neat and tidy though.

I commend his real example "* From my recent .bash_history".

If someone is intimidated by paths in the CLI, the tool isn't for them. Appropriate solutions and their value is relative. Better to be realistic and honest than push people to adopt something they may struggle with.

Besides, this is HN.

Either you do not understand the meaning of hard or you have a very quirky way of trying to be sarcastic :)

“oh come on please it's easy just /etc/init.apt-get/frob-set-conf --arc=0 - +/lib/syn.${SETDCONPATH}.so.4.2 even my grandma can do that”

Slashdot → Kuro5hin

Re. ubiquity making things hard to find— Recent application naming is infuriating! Consider, in GNOME, for example, Nautilus vs Files. "GNOME Files" does not, of course, help. Same with "Apple Photos".

GRRR!

About as helpful as trying to debug "An error has occurred".

Apple Photos, Music, Numbers, Notes… It’s truly exasperating trying to surface an answer for a question like “how do I sort photos in Apple Photos by date of photo not date added?”

At least Google figured out after the fact that golang made more sense than go.

renaming iTunes to "music" has pissed me off

and making "Apple Music" also refer to a subscription service is even worse.

you can only get away with so much by using "music.app" and "photos.app" - and it really doesn't apply on the phone. (Aside: how long until the iPhone is just the Apple Phone?)

Trying to hide the real name of the application is some weird gnome pastime.

Sounds like you use GNUs. A wildebeest to set up, but, once done, nothing quite like it filters the filth.

Parentheses (()), braces({}), brackets([]), and chevrons(<>). I concur.

Or, in British English, brackets(()), curly brackets({}), square brackets ([]).

And I’ve heard both “angle brackets” and “pointy brackets” (<>)

Smooth, squiggly, hard, and pointy are my gotos

<http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html>

That would be fine if we could somehow magically change the English language so that this would universally match how people call these symbols around the world - but that's not likely to happen.

I used to work in ITS looking after a few token Solaris boxen, and played a hand in inviting Stallman down to campus one year in the early-mid 2000s. I had pizza (appiza?) at Yorkside with RMS, and "Three Davey Gs" (my boss (Gewirtz), Graeber and Gelernter).

Graeber was anything but shy that afternoon; he and Stallman were at each other's throats, embarrassingly so. I don't recall their having fundamental philosophical differences… it was just a clash of personalities, I guess.

Being _by far_ the most junior person there, I felt incredibly uncomfortable.

That sounds like a great party story you have there! (at least, having seen RMS live once, I can imagine how "great" it went)

I don't mean to be boring, but Emacs has had a window manager for years, EXWM. Oh, and a browser, EWW. If you want Inception-level recursion, a virtual LISP machine is your friend.

Brits are also allowed to live there.

I read it as, "for non-Brits: a posh town in the UK"

I read it as, a joke.

Translate to fortune format and surprise yourself daily!

That is a brilliant idea for a low-noise spaced repetition solution. Thanks, I'll make good use of this!

>GJail

Just Gail… the G is "soft" like giff.

Not to re-table a long settled debate, but I always knew that the one true pronunciation is gif, and everyone else who pronounce it gif is just weird.