hdisk VS translate-shell

> then people decided perl was bad and moved on from that.

Screw what people think. I found out I like perl. The last thing I wrote is a programmatic partition editor [1] - like how you use sfdisk to zero out the partition, except I wanted to have the MBR and GPT partition table to combine them and make hybrids.

I was fun, and I will use perl again (I may also use awk at one point now that I see how cool it is)

[1] https://github.com/csdvrx/hdisk/

> Bummer you’d been downvoted for that.

Some people have an instinctual dislike of things they've been told it's fashionable to hate. I resent that, because all programming languages are interesting in their own ways.

> It sounds like quite the ambitious project that you’ve nearly got working. Cool!

Oh it's already working, it just needs more polish :)

Check https://github.com/csdvrx/hdisk if you're interested

Actually, I'll try to submit it!

> That is not the sort of thing I’d expect someone to write in Perl, and I’m experiencing an odd mix of “that’s amazing!” and “what on earth were you thinking, my friend?!”

I wanted to do it quickly :)

For decoding weird formats that mix little and big ending, I think perl unpack/unpack is the fastest way.

Also, for computing crc32, I didn't have to bother much :)

There is also a Google (and more) translate client written in AWK

https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell

Ya, I referenced the API call from soimort/translate-shell. But it should have rate limit

We use the zx script below to translate all __STRING_NOT_TRANSLATED, using translate-shell

Translate Shell https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/ on Linux (especially useful with custom Bash scripts)

Flashcards. My favourite translation tool is translate-shell https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell which I use on Linux with a Bash script to copy all translations to a log. I have another Bash script to create a frequency list from this log. I then make flashcards from my most frequently translated words. Learning the words I've most often found incomprehensible naturally improves comprehension.

My preferred translation tool on my laptop is Translation Shell https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell It takes longer to type or copy-paste words, but it has advantages in the custom Bash script I use it with (e.g. to send translated words to a text file which I use to make a frequency list). It's especially useful while watching videos, but I also use it while reading.

Related tool: https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell (has different engines, but deepl is not one of them)

You can try using translate shell