ben0x539

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Comment · 1 month ago
I don't think it would occur to me to write out Continuous Integration because it's basically a nonsense term if you don't know what it means anyway, it's not any less opaque than just CI. The problem isn't the shorthand here, but yeah it's probably good to spell it out anyway so when someone googles it they have more confidence they've found the right thing.
Comment · 3 months ago
Can you control the timing of queries across two db instances well enough to expect the tables to be identical?
Comment · 4 months ago
screenshot of finishing with 4 strokes / 6 par (tho my locked-in daily result was 14 strokes).

The video is bouncing the ball of a wall right at the start to make it jump over the wall, water, and corner behind the start, to skip most of the track.

Comment · 4 months ago
https://i.imgur.com/PzlgXnD.png skill issue

edit: https://i.imgur.com/9xnntqB.mp4 fairly reliable trick shot

Comment · 5 months ago
I imagine people will immediately patch out the auth requirement once the auth servers go away for good.
Comment · 5 months ago
I bet we'd see a bunch of unexpected breakage in presumed-to-be-lower-level-than-http[s] infrastructure so that eg. your legacy IRC server goes down because it's running on rented hardware and the hosting provider's operations rely on some internal http services.
Comment · 6 months ago
Say what you will about github-the-source-control-platform, github-the-unified-login-for-bugtrackers has been a huge success.
Comment · 9 months ago
> edit: I removed the author’s name from this post

well, you didn't from the search query.

Comment · 11 months ago
In your experience, is there a lot of contention over whether a given issue counts as a bug fix or a feature/improvement? In the article, some of the examples were saving people a few clicks in a frequent process, or updating documentation. Naively, I expect that in an environment where bug fixes get infinite priority, those wouldn't count as bugs, so they would potentially stick around forever too.
Comment · 1 year ago
That is some "every element apart from helium and hydrogen is a metal" taxonomy!
Comment · 1 year ago
You know that "Fachkräfte" doesn't mean immigrants, right?
Comment · 1 year ago
Few things are truly forced upon me in life but walking away from everything that I don't like would be foolish. There is compromise everywhere and I don't think entering into a tradeoff means I'm not entitled to have opinions about the things I'm trading off.

I don't think the article sounds like someone didn't take the time to grasp the language. It sounds like it's talking about the kind of thing that really only grates on you after you've seriously used the language for a while.

Comment · 1 year ago
Unfortunate that this page largely shills XLibre, the X fork by the guy who got ejected from contributing to Xorg when he landed a bunch of code that was blatantly untested, leading to tons of his commits getting reverted. Like, I am not a fan of Wayland, still using X on my machine, but from what I've seen of his posting, this guy isn't great PR for the "X is fine actually" camp.
Comment · 1 year ago
I bet there's concerns with users who don't have a robust mental model of what applications/windows are currently alive or starting up or whatever just losing track of a window completely if it doesn't grab focus, and getting annoyed at programs seemingly failing to start up at all (because they only create a window hidden behind a newly focused window).

One-size-fits-all woes I guess.

Comment · 1 year ago
I just wrote a "program" (ok, tiny utility) that behaves like you describe, but don't worry, it's for my personal use so you you won't have to deal with it :)

(i run it when I have an image in the clipboard and it shows an always-on-top window with that image. i can drag it around but it doesn't take focus. it's so on my single monitor setup (aka laptop on the couch) I can take a snapshot of something and then easily reference it in a maximized/semi-fullscreen application). I honestly mostly wrote it to see how fiddly winapi stuff from rust is but I actually end up using it a bunch)

I see where Wayland is coming from but I've come around to preferring the chaos of every app getting to do whatever it wants over hoping that various compositors are willing to support some obscure special case some app or other might want. Like, it sucks if apps are misbehaving but it sucks more if you can't reasonably fix an app to behave like you want it at all.

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