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Amateur

For other uses, see Amateur (disambiguation). An amateur , from French amateur "lover of", is generally considered a person who pursues a particular activity or field of study independently from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, self-taught, user-generated, DIY, and hobbyist. [1] Contents 1 History 2 Amateur athletics 3 Contribution of amateurs 4 List of amateur pursuits 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading History Historically, the amateur was considered to be the ideal balance between pure intent, open mind and the interest or passion for a subject. That ideology spanned many different fields of interest. It may have had its roots in the ancient Greek philosophy of having amateur athletes compete in the Olympics. The ancient Greek citizens would spend most of their time in other pursuits, but would compete according to their natural talents and abilities. The "gentleman amateur" was a phenomen...

How can I filter just one particular nick messages in weechat (IRC)

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 0 down vote favorite Consider have a buffer/channel opened in your weechat. I want to temporarily see all the messages of one user/nick. Is this possible? This means only the filtered nick messages will be shown (just for a while). terminal irc weechat share | improve this question asked Dec 8 at 11:23 SdidS 165 9 add a comment  |  up vote 0 down vote favorite Consider have a buffer/channel opened in your weechat. I want to temporarily see all the messages of one user/nick. Is this possible? This means only the filtered nick messages will be shown (just for a while). terminal irc weechat share | improve this question asked Dec 8 at 11:23 SdidS 165 9 add a comment  |  up vote 0 down vote favorite up vote 0 down vote favorite Consider have a buffer/channel opened in your weechat. I want to temporarily see all the me...

Does constant writing to “files” in `/proc` or `/sys` reduce the life of my SSD due to its limited number of writing cycles?

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 0 down vote favorite My laptop has a SSD drive and I run a script which writes every other second to /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device4/cur_state . I don't think this would count as writing to the SSD and thus reducing its remaining number of writing cycles, since procfs and sysfs are virtual filesystems. Or am I overlooking something and this is an issue? linux files filesystems proc ssd share | improve this question asked Dec 8 at 11:29 Jayjayyy 225 8 1 You are right. Not writing to the SSD doesn't count as writing to the SSD. The same would hold for a RAM drive such as tmpfs . – glglgl Dec 8 at 12:29 add a comment  |  up vote 0 down vote favorite My laptop has a SSD drive and I run a script which writes every other second to /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device4/cur_state . I don't think this would count as writing to the SSD and thus reducing its rem...