nickkell

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Comment · 3 months ago
Similarly I moved to Germany. The office here is mostly deserted by 16:00. In a way I respect their ability to completely split their work and social lives, but it's not particularly fun for me - especially starting from scratch in a new city.
Comment · 3 months ago
They could have had an orange juice
Comment · 8 months ago
I assume by DSL they mean some custom templating language built on top, for things like iterating and if-conditions. If it's plain JSON/YAML you can produce that using any language you wish.
Comment · 9 months ago
For the most part I agree with you: there is less functionality and hence less to police. There are also fewer people in chats/channels, as for the most part they are private or undiscoverable.

There are definitely still breaches of etiquette though, e.g. people frequently tagging a whole channel when they have a support question, even though it contains hundreds of people.

Comment · 9 months ago
Again, this just isn't true. Where are you getting your information from?

Feeding the world is technically easy, there is more than enough space for growing crops. The only reason that it's not done is the desire to eat meat and the lack of any real will to do it.

Comment · 9 months ago
What would make it interesting? Most of the animal mass on earth is livestock for human consumption. More animals are reared to replace the ones that are slaughtered.

It might be interesting for wild fish, but I'm not sure if there are accurate numbers for the wild populations remaining.

Comment · 9 months ago
Is it really beneficial to use a deck created by someone else? I thought part of the learning process is really engaging with the cards - by writing them, thinking about them, and making mental associations with things you already know.
Comment · 9 months ago
I'm a big fan of rebasing to keep the commit history clean and as a form of self-discipline when coding to make sure I'm grouping the changes atomically.

I will try to give Jujutsu a go based on your recommendation!

Comment · 1 year ago
You don't see any of yourself in the pair? I found a lot of their neurotic behaviour relatable.

Butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast... God, life's relentless.

Comment · 1 year ago
Awww that's not fair.

C# actually has fairly good null-checking now. Older projects would have to migrate some code to take advantage of it, but new projects are pretty much using it by default.

I'm not sure what the situation is with Unity though - aren't they usually a few versions behind the latest?

Comment · 1 year ago
No need for a gym membership if you climb those stairs often enough!
Comment · 1 year ago
I use it in my project to document the schema. We keep the markdown file in source control so that we update it whenever we make database changes. We also have an extension that allows viewing it as the diagram in vscode in our .vscode\extensions.json file.

There are some disadvantages however:

1. The foreign key relationships aren't completely clear

2. The diagram became difficult to navigate in vscode as our schema grew in size

Comment · 1 year ago
He knew his Judo well.
Comment · 1 year ago
Do you believe it's fake? There are many kits on the market to turn old bicycles into e-bikes.

As to the USB charging - that's an outlet for charging things like mobile devices, not for charging the battery on the bike.

Comment · 2 years ago
That's where reflog comes in handy

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