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Re:Git rebase -I is not that scary on Sunday July 26, 2026 @09:46AM (#49058201)
Just make sure you've committed and/or stashed first, as you don't really want to rely on the stochastic process to retain your local-only critical work product.
If you don't have an agent swarm that's already trained to re-scroll all the unscrolled feeds and translate them to binaural beats during your micronaps you're ngmi
Design and manufacture open hardware for 25k?
When I read "degrades functionality" I thought it was going to be some minor cloud-related feature, but holy shit they're disabling the ability to save files?? That article headline is really underselling it.
I have a splitter but it's pretty niche and probably not the best DAC
He sucks too. Not everyone is working backwards from their team sports fandoms.
Re:Apt-bundle: brew bundle for apt on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:26AM (#46812391)
aconfmgr[https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr] is a kinda similar project for pacman-based distributions.

The difference is that it strives to track all non-user files, (not just packages, and especially /etc), but you can adopt it partially.

I'm supposed to entrust my life and others' to this and they're bragging on their home page about GitHub stars?
Re:If You're Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C? on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @04:36PM (#46211020)
If you want to get to a higher level compiler, prompt fondling will not suffice; you need to master formal specification. Then machine learning algorithms can do the program synthesis to implement the spec. But just talking out your vague software requirements with a chatbot is not analogous to programming.

Also, like others said, even once you have your formal spec, C is a particularly bad choice (unless you want to specify quite a bit more). You want the program implemented in a language with as many safety constraints on it as possible, not one where you have to mentally track memory.

Re:Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros on Friday December 05, 2025 @01:23PM (#46165146)
> In June 2025, WBD announced plans to separate its Streaming & Studios and Global Networks divisions into two separate publicly traded companies. This separation is now expected to be completed in Q3 2026, prior to the closing of this transaction. The newly separated publicly traded company holding the Global Networks division, Discovery Global, will include premier entertainment, sports and news television brands around the world including CNN, TNT Sports in the U.S., and Discovery, free-to-air channels across Europe, and digital products such as Discovery+ and Bleacher Report.

So no, I don't think this gets in the way of Ellison taking over the rest of TV news; if anything it seems like it smooths the path.

Re:Why Today's Python Developers Are Embracing Type Hints on Saturday October 11, 2025 @02:13PM (#45551323)
Thanks, I didn't have this context. I'll start using this!
Re:Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It? on Thursday October 09, 2025 @02:47PM (#45531530)
First there was PyPI and pypy, now there is PiPy
Re:Why Today's Python Developers Are Embracing Type Hints on Monday September 29, 2025 @02:11PM (#45416924)
Exactly, I want it to complain if I try to manipulate the fields/methods of an unknown object.
Re:Why Today's Python Developers Are Embracing Type Hints on Monday September 29, 2025 @02:10PM (#45416904)
Option is a pretty common name for this, as is Maybe.[^1] Either way I think that ship is sailed in Python.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_type

Re:Why Today's Python Developers Are Embracing Type Hints on Saturday September 27, 2025 @07:35PM (#45400278)
Yeah post 3.10 you don't need Union, Optional, List, Duct, Tuple. Any still necessary when you want to be permissive, and I'm still hoping for an Unknown someday...
Re:What are OKLCH colors? on Monday August 25, 2025 @07:30AM (#45012698)
How does oklch compare to CIELCh(uv)? I've been using that seemingly similar system to pick uniform colors.
AI more like crypto every day, including victim-blaming "you're doing it wrong" hand waves whenever some fresh hell is documented.
Re:Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts on Friday July 18, 2025 @09:00PM (#44611555)
Would you like to count the number of spaces that various items in your manifests are indented and then pass that as an argument to a structure-unaware text file templating engine? Would you like to discover your inevitable yaml file templating errors after submitting those manifests to the cluster? Then yes, you are really missing out!
Re:Koto Programming Language on Saturday March 29, 2025 @09:38AM (#43515437)
For one thing, inferred types may feel easy to use when implemented (well) but they are not easy to implement.
This advice is missing something crucial which is how to discover new creators sans feeds. Not saying it's impossible, but it's something they excel at and they've extinguished a lot of the old ways.
Re:ElevenReader by ElevenLabs on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:15AM (#43037466)
That's good to know, thanks.
Re:ElevenReader by ElevenLabs on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @11:47AM (#43027100)
What's the contribution model moving forward? I see the repository is still active, but is it not still under the Eleven's control? How will it evolve when they stop accepting pull requests?
Only thing I'd quibble with is the reason most consumers switched off of pseudoephedrine. The manufacturers knew that the inconvenience of having to go to the counter would reduce sales so they just replaced it in the aisle with an identically branded product with a different active ingredient. Most people made no affirmative choice at all; they're just buying "Sudafed", but now it's a placebo.
Re:PEP 760: No more bare excepts on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @10:37AM (#41788374)
Python doesn't use semantic versioning. The number after the first period is a major (annual) release and can and does contain breaking changes (though so far never on the scale of the 2->3 upgrade).

We may never see a 4.0 because of the scar tissue, but the language continues to evolve.

Re:Atkinson Hyperlegible Font on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @12:22AM (#41575765)
I recently replaced mine and ruled out a bunch of others based on just two rules:

- the zero must have a mark - the base of the lower case L must go to the right and not the left, for better distinction from the number one

Re:The Dhall Configuration Language on Thursday September 05, 2024 @07:00PM (#41461136)
Has functions, static types, a tree sitter grammar, an lsp client, and lots of implementations. Seems to me to be the most mature of the many new programmable configuration languages.
Re:How CrowdStrike Stopped Everything on Monday September 02, 2024 @09:53AM (#41425388)
Private equity owned businesses are run in an even more predatory manner, not for next quarter's profits but just to extract every dime of equity as fees and services for their parent or as loan principal that can never be paid back.

And then venture-backed companies are ticking time bombs that abruptly close shop when they run out of money or are acquired, or at best themselves turn into the publicly traded companies you loathe.

"Good" companies are mostly just a consumer-friendly stage of the investment lifecycle.

Can you elaborate why? As in, you got hit by an insured driver and so your insurance was able to bill them, whereas you didn't have collision coverage of your own?
I wonder if copyleft projects can use this to find license violations and force the altered code into the open.
Maybe not the point, but https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch is a good alternative to the first of these.

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