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Re:Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub on Thursday July 30, 2026 @02:51PM (#49114073)
I've had that same "what's the point" thought every time I've read about stacked PRs, but recently had an (obvious) epiphany. The benefit is you get CI for each commit! I've always hated fixup/typo/fix tests commits and toyed with having a CI check that enforced ci passing on each commit but this drops that need.
In this instance the PR that was merged was from 6 years ago and was clear https://github.com/pedronauck/reworm/pull/28. Looks to me like a force push overwrote the commit that now exists in history since it was done 6y later.
Re:A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @01:01PM (#43558807)
Use the lessons learned from those before us in less heterogeneous days, aka inspect the binaries you're going to call out to for fitness. Things like "check if grep is gnu or bsd" or "check if sl is sapling or steamlocomotive".

I've done that a bit to deal with macos crippled bash for example.

No script element zapper can remove it, easy peasy.
Re:How does rsync work? on Monday July 04, 2022 @01:02PM (#31979275)
True, but I imagined fetching every file with wget or equivalent and then just using it locally. Doesn't work anyway because the data is not all there.
Re:How does rsync work? on Monday July 04, 2022 @01:01PM (#31979258)
Ah I see now, I didn't traverse deep enough whem checking.
Re:How does rsync work? on Saturday July 02, 2022 @11:43AM (#31959982)
You are right that he can't unilaterally relicense the kernel and that it will likely never happen, but Linus is in fact against the GPLv3, see debconf 14 Q&A: https://youtu.be/5PmHRSeA2c8?t=2840
Re:Inspecting coredumps like it's 2021 on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:01PM (#28600562)
I used to use DDD as a GUI frontend to GDB.

https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/

Re:Outperforming LAPACK with C++ metaprogramming on Monday January 29, 2018 @10:04AM (#16257835)
The way I read GP, the python script can very well do the equivalent of gcc -DPARAM=42 -o binary-param=42 && ./binary-param-42.

edit: oh nm, reread GP...

Re:Some Chimps Are Putting Grass in Their Ears (2014) on Monday November 14, 2016 @10:49AM (#12950512)
I think puranjay interpreted the snippet as a joke referring to college students in fraternity as the "primates in a primate house".
Re:Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @11:56AM (#9341645)
virtual machines. For custom kernels, clusters, both, and other reasons. Having more than 1 vm running gets to be a pain with 8gigs or less.