richie_adler

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by richie_adler 3y ago
"Xerring"? Not "xeroxing"?
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by richie_adler 3y ago
Interesting how this work received an homage in The Name of the Rose , up to the name of the librarian, Jorge de Burgos. (I hated the way they pronounced the name in the movie, /'iorge/ instead of the correct Spanish way &#x
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by richie_adler 3y ago
They probably do.
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by richie_adler 3y ago
And I would argue that where religious motivations are involved, reason and empathy utterly fail. Dogma trumps all.
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by richie_adler 3y ago
> I just want to help where I can personally and have fun, it's not deeper than that. Your position seems to be "I don't want to be bother ever by the problems of others if they don't affect me and my close ones direc
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by richie_adler 3y ago
... workers in general in countries without workers' rights...
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by richie_adler 3y ago
I'd ask what's the benefit in drinking, but most people see brain destruction and increased risk of doing something stupid as "fun".
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by richie_adler 3y ago
The VS Code one is very nice. It even emulates staging, which isn't a thing in Fossil.
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by richie_adler 3y ago
Starring Jodie Whittaker as the wife.
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by richie_adler 3y ago
> people who only came to need it after making poor decisions most of their lives Who would those be?
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by richie_adler 3y ago
Safe when taken as directed.
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by richie_adler 3y ago
> wrote up employees for wearing masks That would have been my cue to start polishing my CV.
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by richie_adler 3y ago
> All of which are entirely orthogonal to what makes working in an office a terrible experience. I.e.: people
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by richie_adler 3y ago
ObRef: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
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by richie_adler 3y ago
> Some Spanish (as in Catalan) names can be downright legendary. Not only. Argentinian national hero Manuel Belgrano had as full name Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano González. Chilean painter Pablo Picasso's full n
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by richie_adler 3y ago
Replace "Hello, $reason_for_this_message" with "Hello, $acceptable_level_of_polite_preamble; $reason_for_this_message", then.
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by richie_adler 3y ago
Thank you! Mandatory reference to nohello.net/en/
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by richie_adler 3y ago
Far from me to defend pederasty, but I'm quite sure I would disagree with the thing you wouldn't want to publish, RL or not.
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by richie_adler 3y ago
I remembered the little dancer in Tetris.
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by richie_adler 3y ago
I read the post in Mastodon with a tone of amused incredulity at the unusual situation. Yes, some unusual habits of the professor may have contributed, but I don't read any negative judgement there. Somebody got burned too many times w
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by richie_adler 5y ago
There is an extensively tested sync protocol, the whole file does not get synced each time. https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/sync.wiki
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by richie_adler 5y ago
Your comment basically can be summarized as "Everybody stop discussing this topic that doesn't interest me!" To which I can only reply: No.
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by richie_adler 5y ago
> You want people who fix code mistakes to go to jail if they don’t keep a record of the mistake? Why? Are you actually unable to engage in a significant discussion without using strawmen?
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by richie_adler 5y ago
> I actually managed to get Dr. Hipp to slightly soften the language on the Fossil page once, in a thread right here on HN regarding git He did because AFAIK he's an extremely nice guy who gladly suffers fools; I guess that's f
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by richie_adler 5y ago
> the Fossil devs projecting their dogmatic views on their perceived competition. Meanwhile, you project your disdain towards Fossil in your own hyperbolic comments and the use of intentionally divisive words like "perceived competi
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by richie_adler 5y ago
> what if I accidentally commit (not push) a piece of sensitive data (say a private key), but notice before I commit Fossil has autosync by default, so the commit has probably reached another instance anyway. But it has a provision exac
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by richie_adler 5y ago
> Does it not come down to the usual "cathedral vs. bazar" opposition? This is expressly addressed in https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki (fifth row of the first tabl
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by richie_adler 5y ago
«This is a false dichotomy. There's a third option: After you as the developer have your giant squashed patch, go through and break it down into individual, reviewable chunks in a logical order. "Reviewable chunk" doesn'
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by richie_adler 5y ago
That last paragraph should appease the critics who appear to be under the impression that Fossil is in a crusade to de-Gitify the universe. Strangely, it does not have that effect.
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by richie_adler 5y ago
Can you please point to the part of the document where somebody is forcing you to use a tool you don't like?

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