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by idoubtit 1y ago
I think that comparison is unclear and unfair. The core is that instead of: jj rebase -r @ -B abc the recommended Git alternative is: git rebase -i abcd1234 # move the last line to the desired position This is a proces
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by idoubtit 1y ago
Just two personal experiences of why the quality of Firefox is far from Chromium's: downloads, and creating an extension. A few years ago, they changed their interface for downloading. This introduced more than a dozen of bugs. Some we
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by idoubtit 1y ago
> Fun fact: movie sales, in terms of tickets sold, peaked in 2002. Fun fact: this is completely wrong. The cinema theaters were much more popular in the 1920s and 1930s, with about 3 times more tickets sold in the USA (out of a smaller p
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by idoubtit 1y ago
I think the programming language is not relevant, especially since startup time plays no role. A different design can have much more impact, and IIRC Garnet is not fully compatible with Redis. The main difference appears to be that Garnet i
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by idoubtit 1y ago
A command without context is not very useful. If anyone wants to run LanguageTool locally, I suggest reading the official documentation page: https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server Their recommended process is : 1. Instal
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by idoubtit 1y ago
"Preislamic" is a common term for near-East history. Islam is well dated, it introduced many changes and unified the region, so it's a powerful marker. I've never encountered the word "Pre-Arabic" about the Ara
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by idoubtit 1y ago
The grand-parent post was about the general consensus: sysadmins generally like systemd. So I'm not sure answering individual concerns is useful, but I'll take the bait... > now that there is journald, you have to pay attention
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by idoubtit 1y ago
Thank you. Without this source, it's hard to separate the facts from the bullshit in what was posted on phys.org. I'm not a scholar, just an amateur, but two sentences were strikingly ridiculous. "Legend has it that Noah hid
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by idoubtit 1y ago
> These requests seem like they are all for background tasks to keep data up to date when the user goes to use it. Where did you get this information? Is it just a guess based on what Apple declared about these domains? In the article, t
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by idoubtit 1y ago
> BSDs are [...] much better documented This is an opinion that I've often read, but that does not match my limited experience. The difference in quality between BSDs and Linux is not clear. I've found outdated documentation on
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by idoubtit 1y ago
Plastic recycling is a drop of water in an ocean of plastic. > In New Zealand, soft plastics are mostly recycled into fence posts The latest (2025-01) official report[^1] I could found states that the recycling of plastics in NZ is poorl
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by idoubtit 1y ago
Just a side note about the historical anecdote at the bottom of the post, which is related to Notre-Dame de Paris: > 28 statues that portrayed the biblical Kings of Judah. [...] They didn’t portray French kings That's wrong. Several
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by idoubtit 1y ago
> it's undeniable that we are making progress. Yes, I agree that some public organizations in France are making progress with Open Source. For instance, free software is now common in universities (with local variations). And overal
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by idoubtit 1y ago
This is just for show, and facts won't follow. It's not the first time a French government vows to stick to Open Source. Yet most of the public money goes to proprietary software, and Open Source is the exception. Two months ago,
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by idoubtit 1y ago
> 1. The amount of "culture" being created has to be like a magnitude of order greater than 25 years ago. For music, I'm not even sure the cultural creation has increased. A few decades ago, there were scores of indie band
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by idoubtit 1y ago
Among ancient Greek authors, I've read a far better example of mockery mixed with seriousness. Towards the end of the Illiad, the Greek leaders organize a feast where many oxen are roasted. It's followed by sport games. At the foo
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by idoubtit 1y ago
Isn't it just obvious? When the Nazi ideology was widespread, of course it permeated into every domain of the society. I haven't read the books, but the presentation by this holocaust museum was not informative. For instance, it f
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by idoubtit 2y ago
I respect this choice of modernization, and I suppose some readers enjoy it, but it makes the publisher's whole work useless to me. When a text has been altered, I can't trust it respects the intent of the author, and any style in
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by idoubtit 2y ago
I never understood the appeal of title case. It brings nothing valuable, but sometimes leads to stupid mistakes like this, or raises ambiguities that hamper my reading. I hope the American influence won't make this practice more common
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by idoubtit 2y ago
I know this was sarcasm, but my experience is that I download much less with Debian's APT than I did with Flatpak. I can think of two explanations: (1) Debian packages have more shared parts, and (2) they have optional dependencies (&q
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by idoubtit 2y ago
The question "Who invented this?" is most often pointless, because the largest part of the invention is collective. Once the environment is ready, many people can invent on the shoulders of their predecessors. Without the Wright b
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by idoubtit 2y ago
> Although there is: https://www.netmeister.org/blog/urls.html I think the section named "Pathname" is wrong. It describes the path of an URL as if every server was Apache serving static files with its def
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by idoubtit 2y ago
I don't understand what is the purpose of xit. The only new feature would be "(5) Universal undo". To leave Git, the universal standard, or even to try an alternative, I would expect major features or a different workflow. Xi
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That was a useful read. I'd been frustrated by `merge.conflictstyle = diff3` so I'm glad I learned about `zdiff3`. I also discovered `fetch.prune` and `pull.autoSetupRemote` which will slightly enhance my workflow. My only disagre
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by idoubtit 2y ago
Since about half the English words come from Latin, mostly through French, there are many cases of -ant and -ator in the English language. So I thought that most American adults knew that -ant is like -ing (see "migrant"), and tha
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by idoubtit 2y ago
Netbeans is a good IDE for PHP. Many thanks to Junichi, the maintainer and developer of the PHP module for many years. I don't know of any decent open-source alternative for PHP. Last time I checked, at spring 2024 IIRC, the various
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by idoubtit 2y ago
Indeed, while still in jail, this man surely knew smartphones existed. And, of course, basic usage of a smartphone is easy; it wouldn't be addictive if it was hard. The point of this (low quality) article was that, after 30 years far f
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by idoubtit 2y ago
> Java 8+ is basically a declarative language. That's a bold claim! The article you link to does not contain the word "declarative". It simply states that modern Java allows more of Data-Oriented Programming, meaning a emp
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by idoubtit 2y ago
I solved it, to my own surprise, by considering a more general problem. I wanted to get an interval for the solution, so I replaced 3 with y. Now for y=5, the solution is obvious. x(y) is a increasing function and its minimum is... oh!
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by idoubtit 2y ago
> It appears the last commits on GitHub are from mid 2024 That's not what I see. The last commits for elm/compiler were minor fixes in 2023. Last substantial changes were in 2021. See https://github.com/elm&#x2F

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