Deebster

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm guessing by the recipes you mean Southern USA. I thought okra was from somewhere in Asia, but Wikipedia tells me it's from East Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea and "East Sudan" - which is kinda funny as there's a Sudan and South Sudan).

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Dickbutt? Getting /r/HighQualityGifs/ vibes

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

btw, you wanted cue not queue, as in cue cards, that's my cue, cue the music.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you saying you think it's ridiculous to end support "already"?

I think it's likely that anyone still using 486s isn't updating software anyway, so it's unlikely to matter aside from niches like retro devices. Luckily, open source means that if there's a genuine desire there'll probably be a fork to provide it.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Nothing dates it more than the reference to Boing Boing.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

btw, you've typoed the name: altwiki makes me think it's an alt-right version of Wikipedia.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think people should downvote this Linux-related content that's in a Linux sub just because it's been posted on different servers in the Fediverse. People are too free with their downvotes.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 10 points 3 weeks ago

Oof, that's embarrassing for a "hacker" distro. I guess they have too many red teamers and no blue.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

But you're misrepresenting my argument.

Hardly, I'm directly addressing your statement that case insensitive is intuitive to users, grandmas or otherwise - I give examples where it's not initiative or obvious which filenames match. I didn't mention ease of implementation at all.

The principle of least surprise is an important UX consideration, and your idea of effectively introducing collation and localising which files conflict is just trading one problem for another set of problems and suprises (e.g. copying directories between drives with different settings).

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

Case insensitive is more intuitive

Are these the same filename?

  • ΑΓΑΘΉ.txt
  • αγαθή.txt

What about these?

  • MY-NOTES-ON-Δ.txt
  • μυ-notes-on-δ.txt

Databases have different case-insensitive collations - these control what letters are equivalent to each other. The fact that there's multiple options should tell you that there's no one-size-fits-all solution to case insensitivity.

This issue is only simple and obvious if you don't know enough about it.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

It is a map, though, unlike OP's image!

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Sad because the UK's quite small/unsunny and that means most other countries aren't doing much?

I thought that the UK was quite strong in wind, so it'd be interesting to see that charted.

 

This is old news, but no-one posted it at the time.

They released a bunch of new features, including error boundaries, each without as (simple but useful), exported snippets and er LLM-friendly documentation.

There's 24 new things in total, as it was a Christmas advent thing.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Deebster@programming.dev to c/xkcd@lemmy.world
 

Title text:

Can you pass the nackle?

Transcript:

[Cueball is holding a pointer and gesturing towards a whiteboard that shows the chemical formulas HCOOH and CH₃COOH. Below these, respectively, are classic diagramatic representations of formic/methanoic acid [with an apparently accidental doubled bond between the carbon and the hydroxy group] and acetic/ethanoic acid; being, in turn, a single- and double-carbon chain molecule with a double-bonded oxygen (carbonyl group) plus an oxygen-hydrogen (hydroxy) upon one carbon of each, to form the full carboxyl grouping, and hydrogens completing all other expected bonds.]
Cueball: The two simplest carboxylic acids are hakoo and chuckoo.
Off-panel voice: No!!

[Caption below the panel:]
How to annoy chemists

Source: https://xkcd.com/3040/

explainxkcd for #3040

 

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Animal Far (infosec.pub)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Deebster@programming.dev to c/memes@feddit.uk
 
 

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/21363946

The normal complaint new Zellij users have is that it has a lot of keybindings which are likely to conflict with programs like nvim or Helix that use a lot themselves. Before, the workflow was to lock Zellij with ctrl-g which let input go through to the focused shell/program.

The new mode has most of the keybindings behind the ctrl-g lock, e.g. a new tab is ctrl-g t n (instead of ctrl-t n). You can still use alt-(cursor) for changing focus and alt-n/alt-f for a new tiled/floating pane, but all other key presses get passed along.

You can switch between default and unlock-first (non-colliding) modes so if you need those alt shortcuts you can lock everything as before.

Plus some other nice features like being able to change modifier keys while running (via the Kitty Keyboard Protocol), and autoloading the new config when you edit the file.

 

The normal complaint new Zellij users have is that it has a lot of keybindings which are likely to conflict with programs like nvim or Helix that use a lot themselves. Before, the workflow was to lock Zellij with ctrl-g which let input go through to the focused shell/program.

The new mode has most of the keybindings behind the ctrl-g lock, e.g. a new tab is ctrl-g t n (instead of ctrl-t n). You can still use alt-(cursor) for changing focus and alt-n/alt-f for a new tiled/floating pane, but all other key presses get passed along.

You can switch between default and unlock-first (non-colliding) modes so if you need those alt shortcuts you can lock everything as before.

Plus some other nice features like being able to change modifier keys while running (via the Kitty Keyboard Protocol), and autoloading the new config when you edit the file.

 

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Bacon v3 released (dystroy.org)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Deebster@programming.dev to c/rust@programming.dev
 

Bacon is a Rust code checker designed for minimal interaction, allowing users to run it alongside their editor to receive real-time notifications about warnings, errors, or test failures (I like having it show clippy's hints).

It prioritizes displaying errors before warnings, making it easier to identify critical issues without excessive scrolling.

Screenshot (from an old version I think):

v3 adds support for cargo-nextest, plus some QoL improvements.

v3.0.0 release notes

 

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