The "no-sugar" style

Situation

I’m the person who like concise, and don’t like the literature style stuffing in lots of irrelevant information to distract you from the main idea. So when I read a book called “No bullshit Java”, I know that’s exactly the kind of writing style I prefer, both reading and writing.

However, that “No bullshit” is kind of stronger than my tolerance. Is there a better phrase that can convey the idea that I don’t like those “bullshit”, but not as strong?

Example usage:

I read a very useful blog, but there are so many distraction there that it is very easy to miss a step. So I’m documenting it again in my (no-)____ style.

I want something more vivid than “concise” (or “distilled”), but not as colorful as “no bullshit”.

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Creating GPT partitions easily on the command line

Incentives

I’ve long been enjoying using sfdisk to manipulate my disk partitions. I always use it to,

When my disks are over 2T in size, I can’t use MBR and therefore can’t use sfdisk anymore. I have to use GPT instead. My first GPT partitions was created using GUI tools, but I really hate GUI tools. So this time when I need to partition GPT again, I look for the command line alternative instead.

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