{"id":1057,"date":"2016-07-22T11:25:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T18:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2016-07-22T11:53:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T18:53:11","slug":"a-tale-of-two-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve finally decided to get a Mac. &#8220;But Steen!&#8221; my friends say, &#8220;I thought you were Mrs. All-Linux-All-The-Time!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I still am! Even though I still like others better, to be honest Macs also essentially run on a Linux distro.<\/p>\n<p>Initial thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It looks like I will have to manually install Basemap to get it working on the Mac so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=977\">I can do this on it<\/a>, as even Homebrew doesn&#8217;t have it. Which isn&#8217;t so bad, but since I already have a working machine with Basemap set up, it is easy for me to slide into laziness and not manually install it on the Mac. But I&#8217;ll probably do it eventually.<\/li>\n<li>Macs have `say`<\/li>\n<li>MACS ARE MADE OF METAL. Nothing drives home the reality of how often you use your laptop without pants quite like getting a metal laptop.<\/li>\n<li>I only use the terminal on my Mac because I cannot figure out the GUI for the life of me. Like, what the heck is going on there? At least the terminal is familiar!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But then again, there&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">uniq on mac only compares first 8kb of line, use sort -u instead <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/waytoospecificcmdlineadvice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#waytoospecificcmdlineadvice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pall Melsted (@pmelsted) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pmelsted\/status\/698146269563379712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That is legitimately terrifying :\/<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be sure to continue using my other machine for any sort of bioinformatic work.<\/p>\n<p>But it is not all bad, I always have fun getting to know a new computer. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing how this all pans out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve finally decided to get a Mac. &#8220;But Steen!&#8221; my friends say, &#8220;I thought you were Mrs. All-Linux-All-The-Time!&#8221; Well, I still am! Even though I still like others better, to be honest Macs also essentially run on a Linux distro. Initial thoughts: It looks like I will have to manually install Basemap to get &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1057\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Tale of Two Laptops&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}