[tacostakohashi]

I think it's a bit sad to be using a heavyweight, ad-ridden website for such trivial things that can be done with e.g.:

date --date="2 days ago"

cal -3

On the other hand, I admire whoever the operator is for creating a business around such a simple thing.

[D13Fd]

The site loads quickly. It's fast with few ads.

Maybe the date command can do things like calculate the number of business days between two dates, accounting for U.S. holidays, and add or subtract work days excluding U.S. holidays -- I don't know. But I know it would take more effort than I'm willing to do to figure that out and test it. And I suspect it would involve a few switches and be subject to easy error.

For pulling up the calendar, it's literally a bookmark that brings up a browser tab with the year's calendar, showing U.S. national holidays. Can the cal command show holidays at all? It's unclear.

I think it's a bit sad to discount the value of a clear, usable, and fast GUI over a command-line interface for certain day-to-day tasks. Both tools have their uses.

[shpx]

You can't make a single typo in Bash and also the browser makes aliases for you automatically based on usage, whereas Bash aliases require thought and maintenance.

So it's Bash that is slower ("heavyweight") if you count how many neuron firings it takes and how much these gigantic, slow write heads (fingers on a keyboard) have to move through space as part of the system. Computer scientists haven't been able to make a language with any sort of error recovery because "it would be non-deterministic" but Google (guided by capitalism) was able to see that's what people need. Google search is a programming language/shell.

[woleium]

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