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0 pointshombre_fatal6y ago0 comments

Yeah, manpages feel like the equivalent of being served a book on a subject where I just want to know a quick incantation. Like reading the entire wikipedia entry on cats just to settle a dispute on how many toes they have (18 btw).

I think manpages are a popular thing to worship here for nerd points but people don't use them nearly as much as they say they do because nobody actually wants to read a manual when they are trying to Get Things Done. Also, some things are just incredibly hard to figure out, like ffmpeg arguments.

Check out http://bropages.org/

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flukus6y ago

> Yeah, manpages feel like the equivalent of being served a book on a subject where I just want to know a quick incantation.

Because manpages are from a time when reading the manual was expected behavior, searching for a quick incantation more often than not results in learned helplessness because you don't actually learn anything, just the specific spell for the specific situation.

I'm as guilty as anyone of trying to solve the immediate problem with a magic spell at times, but bropages embrace this willful ignorance.

your-nanny6y ago

not to make fun of my old roommate, but I had to give him line by line instructions for him to use a scientific calculator, which he dutifully copied, instead of taking the time to learn calculator principles. know your tools.

anthk6y ago

Bro pages are a joke compared to the conciseness of man pages under OpenBSD.

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