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I've been working on a video game and actually followed the article to implement astar.

If you have an inaccessible node, astar will indeed scan everything. But to get around this I only had to add a limit to the number of frontier iterations which was just a conditional.

I know, but you still have to make it executable, hence it's not as convenient.

And on top of this, an unlink is less error prone than a rm -f.

Well the symlink command was also easier to share with others having the same issue, whereas a one liner that creates an executable script which returns 0 is less ideal.

> The /bin/true (or /usr/bin/true) command is now nearly obsolete, because most extant shells now have a builtin "true" command. But it's still useful occasionally, for various silly reasons [...]

This make it sound like this is useless, but I disagree. For example, recently I had some games crash because they couldn't find pulseaudio, and making a symlink from pulseaudio to /bin/true fixed my issue (and yes, they had sound). So there are certainly legitimate uses for it.

I question the same thing, and would like to know how accurate it is.

Is there any peer reviewed literature that supports this?

Somehow I can see some companies using this to spy on their employees and "measure" how productive they are, and how their timesheets reports match.

Control for whom? Before gdpr the general stance in the industry was we never delete user data, just mark a field saying its deleted in the db and that's that. It's been a total shift.

And it's not just that, I've seen first hand that even internal communication about customers are treated with more care as they can legally request all their data.

For what is worth, I have disabled it in firefox 90 in about:config.

I think you would still be surprised at how many things emacs can still do better like undo in region or even simple macros that find use even during simple text edits.

Though ultimately feature per feature, I don't think emacs looks all that great, but the difference is that you can actually use a lot of what it has to offer whereas it's difficult to do so in more modern editors (with fuzzy matching and all).

> Debt repayment has one vital characteristic: it is easy to understand

If it were this easy you wouldn't see so many people taking on so many unnecessary debts. Technical or otherwise.

Thanks for sharing this.

It tried when the mounting failed, saying it would drop me to a shell and then said "it fail to open up a shell".

I've been using linux on my desktop for almost 20 years. This was the first time I couldn't get a shell to fix my problem.