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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Telemetry is orthogonal to the concepts of Free/Open source. You sound like someone who just has an ideological objection to companies making money and producing text editors, and to proprietary software. However, many of the people he
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Actually, my use of "literally" is correct as hibbelig points out. I never said that they used the string literal "107". They literally tried to do something which would clearly lead to attempting to use a string represe
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
I don't use JB IDEs but for the people I know who do, the thing that stops them using VSCode is debugging: I'm curious, does anyone consider VSCode debuggers to be as good as JB or is it just obvious at this point that JB IDEs are
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
You can configure it to have an extremely minimal UI. I remove the side bar and menu bar and work in Zen mode full screen. People often ask me what editor i'm using.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Agreed, my use of literally was incorrect. But otherwise I don't think we disagree! Bash/zsh etc is a terrible language and it's absurd that knowing it is still required. Nushell is a better direction, but I don't know h
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
> maybe some less obscure error messages would be nice? Bear with me here! The error message is exactly what we’d expect in this situation. The author literally tried to use the string “107” as an executable name, and bash says ‘I can’t
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
For what it’s worth, the explanation of the error was obvious to me after seeing the code for a few seconds. So maybe my point is… don’t worry if stuff like that in shell programming seems obscure to you; it becomes much less obscure with p
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
I disagree! It's railwaycats emacs because of the SVG support, unless I'm out of date.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
I use a white terminal background, and lsd outputs yellow, which is unreadable on white. I've so far failed to stop this; e.g. it didn't seem to respect my LS_COLORS.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
That's interesting. While perhaps not "standard", I'd definitely say it is very common among educated US speakers. Not to blame Bruce Springsteen -- who for all I know might have been trying to depict via grammatical err
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The English starting point is very questionable. Is it trying to say "she had said goodbye too many times before"? In any case, this makes the exercise of translating questionable.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Yep, for example, it's standard for US speakers to say "I wish you would have done X instead" whereas Brits would say that should be "I wish you had done X instead". I believe that that construction is a past subjun
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
The article seems confused. It acknowledged that the problem is annoying customization of workflows by managers, but then bemoans the fact that no one has created a replacement that supports customizations. But that's the point! We don
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
> But then you're back to using a forge, and needing to open the website to review changes in addition to using git and email. It sounds to me, and I mean this quite objectively, not as a personal insult, that you're attracted
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Why not log in anonymously to a single shared service that can be maintained more easily than N instances for N patients?
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How is that better than having shared access to a remote git repo and your collaborator sending you a commit sha and branch name? Note that I'm not suggesting you use any for-profit company's hosted git product.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
No-one should be applying patches from emails. I know several people will react with certainty that I'm wrong, but email-patch-based flows are just used because the old-timers using them are very accustomed to it. It makes vastly more
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
> git has first class support for applying patches from emails. You say that like it's a good thing.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Agreed it doesn't look great. But to be fair, it's probably GDPR cookie regulations that drove them to it.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
I don't agree on -e: see my comment higher up in the thread. It might be ok if you're hyper-aware, but recommending it to others will leave them baffled and confused in situations like that in my example where a non-zero exit is w
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
No. I agree, when I first encountered -e I thought it sounded like a good idea. But it's not too long before the problems rear their heads. #!/bin/bash set -e grep nomatchforthis echo "Won't get here!&quot
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
It's so tempting to implement in bash. I made the mistake _again_ this week! It's so seductive to be able to start subprocesses with no ceremony, use output redirection, use jq, etc. If you have even the slightest hesitation regar
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
pull is fetch + merge By default. There's an option to make it fetch + rebase. But anyway it's a complicated composite command. I agree with the others. Don't use pull: use the underlying simpler commands directly.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Yes I agree. Have you ever seen the "command line instructions" GitHub prints at the bottom of pull requests to checkout the PR code?! I don't think you'd approve of them. I'm pretty expert at git having used it eve
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By "abstractions", parent means the abstract entities forming the application domain model. The user interface to that domain model is not the abstractions.
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Haha but no, they're not similar. We can absolutely influence the prevalence of inappropriate GUI interfaces. For starters, push back if someone tells you to make one inappropriately. I don't think there's a huge market deman
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Did ChatGPT4 prompt and context limits change in the last 24hrs?
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
OK fair enough (and I was being deliberately provocative so deserve any criticism I get). You're of course right that there's a huge diversity of programmers (in terms of experience, background, and extent to which they give a shi
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I'm surprised to see RedHat thinking that programmers will prefer a desktop GUI interface to CLI for operations like starting containers. I thought that thinking had died out 20 years ago and that even Java and Windows people understoo
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
It's nice not to have to switch languages. I use multiple languages but we're not infallible; it would be better if we could write it all in one perfect language that we know really well. Just explaining the desire, I've neve

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