[HN Gopher] Just
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Just
Author : bpierre
Score : 12 points
Date : 2024-01-28 16:31 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| behnamoh wrote:
| At first I thought it had to do with the Just monad. I need to
| get some fresh air!
| justinsaccount wrote:
| Often "Just" is... justified. At least, as a question to
| understand why someone is doing something the hard way.
|
| As the post ends with:
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| > We should try to understand what makes it hard. And make it
| easier.
|
| Yes, and I often do that by asking a question like "Why don't you
| just use [X]" i.e. Someone is saying something like
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| "Transferring files between these two servers is too hard. It
| keeps timing out and then I have to look to see which files have
| already been transferred and manually skip those. Sometimes a
| file is present but incomplete and finding those is even more
| work"
|
| Why don't you just use rsync?
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