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shermantanktopyesterday at 3:54 PM1 replyview on HN

How did that even get started? It’s not like downloading a zip or tar file is so terribly taxing.


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godelskiyesterday at 4:02 PM

Convenience, mostly.

  curl -L "foo.sh" -o foo.sh && bash foo.sh
Is just more characters. But you should do it simply because a poorly written bash script can accidentally mess you up when streaming.

Why sudo though?

I honestly think it's stupidity. Most people really don't know you can build programs to the user and don't need system privileges. I think everyone is just so used to installing from package managers and doing `sudo make install` that they forgot programs only need to be in $PATH and not /usr/bin

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