Izkata

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I work with legacy code and am regularly reading commit messages from 10-15 years ago while figuring out what was going on several teams past. It's also why I'm against squash-merges, there have been plenty of times a commit was
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I swear I remember once reading about a culture where babies don't have souls until they're named. Maybe something about gaining their own distinct identity?
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> Picard's closing boils down to, "we don't know if he meets the third A little piece of in-universe lore for anyone unaware or who had forgotten: At this point in the series, Data's positronic brain is new technolog
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Time. In addition to degrading infrastructure, bad forest management making the wildfires worse than they should be: https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-better-approach-to-forest-man...
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Also skill atrophy due to over-reliance on these tools is a real thing. And for some people it happens really fast, just a couple of months before they start noticing a difference (like with two of my co-workers - one stated directly to me,
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No, master is protected. I think they were trying to update their local master so they could resolve a merge conflict.
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I didn't catch the exact commands they were doing, but their branch was made that far back, that's how it was that many commits. Support was putting that setting in ~/.gitconfig for all new laptops, and we didn't know it
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There were negotiations before it all started and people seem to have missed or forgotten the claim that Iran mentioned having material to create 11 nukes during this. When this first came out all the news reported there was no evidence Ira
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[pull] rebase = true Don't use this one unless you really know what you're doing. Multiple co-workers have gotten into really bizarre rebases because of it (like rebasing 70+ commits from master on top of their bra
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It's a generic and very old term for committing dependencies to your repo, it's not go-specific.
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> Edit: I have always held that searching for an answer (whether it be internet or human) has always been about asking the right person, the right question, at the right time. At the peak of search they're describing, asking a quest
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> How Is All of This Relevant to React? > Not that much. You can even say it’s a stretch. No mention of React's built-in Context? Because this is really similar. Not exact for sure, this particular example wouldn't work
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And the animated show, Tron: Uprising?
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I have no idea where "cooked" came from, but "cooking" seems to be from the very old phrase "cooking up" which broadly meant something like "creatively making" and didn't specifically refer to fo
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Those were just the most prominent things, which were immediately noticed because it's completely normal to leave them open remotely to maintain context for something and quickly pick it back up when reconnecting. It's kind of the
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My laptop would regularly freeze and need a hard reboot, and I never could figure out why. One day for a completely unrelated reason I decided to try switching from pulseaudio to pipewire, with no other changes (including no other upgrades;
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> Robotic vacuums can get some more innovation, but the obvious next steps are unsolved problems (I want it to pick up before it cleans) that may not be solvable for a reasonable price. Roborock has already released a vacuum that does th
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Considering pipewire was a drop-in replacement for pulseaudio with (almost*) full compatibility and none of the stability issues (you can even use the pulseaudio commands to control it), the problem was definitely in the pulseaudio code. *
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> Systemd the init service is excellent. When it's not actively going against decades of convention and breaking solid programs everyone has used forever: https://superuser.com/questions/1372963/how-do-i-ke
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You can be completely right in a bad way, and it's what I suspect is going to happen. Three years ago I mentioned to co-workers I was most concerned about juniors not being able to build skills to become mid-level or senior. In the pa
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Last week I helped a co-worker with some flaky tests, where the code and tests were generated from one of the models. While looking at how one of the tests work, I'd spotted a place in the code where a boolean condition was backwards
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Force --no-ff merges in git. That's pretty much what you want.
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Python is an object-oriented language in the broader meaning, but object-oriented programming is a particular style that java pushes you into, that python doesn't. It doesn't just mean "everything is an object", it'
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Before the iPhone was the iPod, and before the iPod I had an iRiver mp3 player. There was certainly a trend and only Apple's product survived that one.
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I assume they meant the people who planted those "tree farms", that they chose trees people were less allergic to.
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Beryl forked from Compiz and even though Compiz was the name people knew, Beryl was more popular for a while because it had like 10-20x more functionality out of the box. At some point they merged back together into Compiz Fusion and lost a
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Slightly beyond that, pasting creates a temporary new layer you can manipulate like normal layers before anchoring it or converting it to a normal layer. It's visible in the Layers window as a separate layer from the one you were worki
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That's an option on the Move tool, whether to move the current layer or the thing you clicked on. As someone who has never used Photoshop, I've always found Gimp to be pretty intuitive, and reading some of the complaints on here I
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> COVID, I believe, had about a 1% rate, in the OG variant, and that brought the world to a standstill. The claims that caused lockdowns were 3-10% death rate. The world was brought to a standstill primarily due to massive fearmongering.
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> 4. (This is the big one) It would spread when the carrier was asymptomatic. This was also quickly found to be false. From memory the spread was 98.8% symptomatic, 1.2% pre-symptomatic, and 0% symptomatic. Granted you can't tell pr

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