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Re:Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python on Saturday October 31, 2026 @10:29PM (#50322210)
Or, you know, you can use the exceptions
Re:Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:41AM (#50102280)
But how often you do ignore the response body? In my case I do call http endpoints to read it
Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:05PM (#50089852)
never, ever in my life I've seen SecureBoot doing anything ever remotely advantageous for me.
Re:Don't Put Tilde In Your Path on Sunday October 11, 2026 @09:23AM (#50043068)
well.. it's in zsh (and probably any other *sh) too
It would ne reaaally weird to me to call it parmesan... I'm italian.

And fuck you, asshole, and don't tell me what I can do.

Re:Southern Olive Oil on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:43AM (#49994440)
>>> American South

I lost some neurons trying to understand the locution, then it talked about texas.

yeah... so it not from the "south of the americas" (think brazil, urugay, argentina...) but "the south of the u.s.a."

not really clear from someone from the other part of the atlantic

Don't know if it is fat-finger, malice, trademarks, or pure ignorance... but it's _parmigiano_ ; not parmagiano nor parmiagiano
will the "exploit" app be available? asking for a friend :D
Re:Operation Smart Kettle – Börzels Blog on Sunday September 13, 2026 @08:55AM (#49683470)
that's the ERROR code 418 for you :D
Re:Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions on Saturday August 29, 2026 @02:01AM (#49487308)
I already have it (minus the "realistic rendering") in my old car navigation...
Re:A better way to view diffs on Thursday August 20, 2026 @08:06AM (#49373471)
sooo, like any decent ide diff viewer? hell, kdiff3 did it almost 20 years ago

https://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/doc/screenshots.html#dirmerge...

Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker on Monday August 17, 2026 @01:27AM (#49326851)
that's a price I would like to pay.
It's not. Op is wrong
Re:Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes on Monday August 10, 2026 @06:48AM (#49241990)
while it's cool about the negroni, it's missing the (IMHO) better "negroni sbagliato"
Re:A big win for Android interoperability on Sunday August 02, 2026 @07:50AM (#49143599)
You mean like the EU digital wallet
Re:The World's 2,400 Castles on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @07:40AM (#49005151)
still missing castel del monte, in puglia - italy.

it's on the 1¢ coins here!!

Re:My Homepage Has a Pulse on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:46PM (#48936951)
there is a neko too! :D
And the rest of the world people? would it be healthier? the doubt is striking me
Re:The Field Guide to CSS Grid Lanes on Sunday June 14, 2026 @02:00AM (#48524598)
yeah, but realistically in what other places would you use them?
from TFA

    uv run ohbin run rg -- TODO src/
yeaaah
> I know some people who are adamantly against solar and wind

let me guess... they sell oil?

> how many more years do I need to work in tech?

The right answer should be "until you are able to do it".

That's the whole premise of welfare. Anything less or more is privilege/vice

Re:Roku LT Operating System open source distribution on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @02:09AM (#48380537)
to spy on you
Re:The advertising cartel coming to your web browser on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @01:32AM (#48380277)
neither?
Re:On Rendering Diffs on Saturday May 30, 2026 @01:56AM (#48333069)
While for "simple" diffs these UIs are "fine", I'm still struggling (after 15+ years of search) for a really good tool that could help me with 3-file diffs...

I'm still stuck with (k)diff3, and, while they work, I would really like to a more integrate web interface for my projects

Re:Using AI to write better code more slowly on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @12:51AM (#48275137)
Basically you're using AI as very costly linters...

what's wrong with (depending on the language) checkstyle, sonarlint, ruff, mypy, xmllint, and/or eslint?

Re:Jira Is Turing-Complete on Monday May 25, 2026 @02:18AM (#48263961)
> corporate programmers with the hacker spirit

that thing does not exists

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