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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Old Mac OS before Mac OS X used : as path separator Macintosh HD:Users:yourUserName:Desktop:My File.txt. It’s still used for AppleScript. Converting from and to POSIX paths using / happens pretty regularly when writing AppleScript nowadays.

    That’s also the reason why : is still an illegal character to use for file names on macOS.

    [–] leo85811nardo 61 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    Funny thing is Windows accepts forward slashes as arguments in programs and API for long time. They just refuse to return forward slashes and don't give users/developer options to do so, so we have to deal with it anyway

    [–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I think you mean users\developers

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

    DIR πŸ€ͺ

    [–] Wispy2891 2 points 1 week ago

    screenshot of PowerShell

    On Windows 11 it's possible to use backslash for path in the terminal. But then it's windows 11 and their million bugs

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Windows just wants to help you learn about escape characters

    [–] kippinitreal 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I hope the file encodings CEO and the line endings CEO trip over something and break their nose

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

    Also whoever decided to do strings in WTF-16

    [–] MITM0 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

    Yeah, I only got it after I bumped into it second time

    [–] ch00f 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    you lose a hand specifying linux file paths?

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

    If you use the character 0x20 in a file name, yes

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

    No! That’s impossible!

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Linux species file paths?

    Edit: Mac does too, they just hide it.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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    [–] herrvogel 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

    Technically yes

    [–] HStone32 1 points 1 week ago

    I mean, DNA can be stored in a file. Hormones and steroids can be described discretely by chemical composition. And while we still don't understand how the frontal lobe works, we do understand how brains store, recognize, and recall information, which is the basis for generative AI today.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago
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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    It’s the Overly-VerboseCommandSyntax in PowerShell that always grinds my gears.

    [–] HStone32 2 points 1 week ago

    I've never met anyone who likes the windows shell environment, or uses it by choice. Only people who try very hard to convince themselves UNIX is somehow worse.

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

    All too easy