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sindresorhus / TrueColour.md
Created January 17, 2017 11:46 — forked from XVilka/TrueColour.md
True Colour (16 million colours) support in various terminal applications and terminals

Colours in terminal

It's a common confusion about terminal colours... Actually we have this:

  • plain ascii
  • ansi escape codes (16 colour codes with bold/italic and background)
  • 256 colour palette (216 colours + 16 ansi + 24 gray) (colors are 24bit)
  • 24bit true colour ("888" colours (aka 16 milion))
printf "\x1b[${bg};2;${red};${green};${blue}m\n"
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smoser / README.md
Last active March 7, 2022 15:34
Boot a specific installed Ubuntu kernel using grub-reboot and grub-set-default

Ubuntu Grub Boot Kernel

Boot a specific installed Ubuntu kernel using grub-reboot and grub-set-default.

This allows you to pick what kernel you want to boot on next reboot, or set the default, without having to know much about how grub works or editing config files.

Usage

  Usage: boot-kernel [options] [kernel]

call grub-reboot or grub-set-default to boot the provided kernel.

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sixtyfive / cult_of_ignorance.md
Last active November 16, 2020 15:45 — forked from conspect/cult_of_ignorance.md
A Cult Of Ignorance, Isaac Asimov

It's hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: "America's right to know." It seems almost cruel to ask, ingeniously, "America's right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?"

None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way throughout political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Politicians have routinely striven to speak the language of Shakespeare and Milton as ungrammaticaly as possible in order to avoid offending their audiences by appearing to have gone to school. Thus, Adlai Stevenson, who incautiously allowed intelligence and learning and wit to peep out of his speeches, found the American people

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XVilka / TrueColour.md
Last active April 8, 2024 14:02
True Colour (16 million colours) support in various terminal applications and terminals

THIS GIST WAS MOVED TO TERMSTANDARD/COLORS REPOSITORY.

PLEASE ASK YOUR QUESTIONS OR ADD ANY SUGGESTIONS AS A REPOSITORY ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS INSTEAD!