Yep, the repository root. Where everyone starts to read your code, so you put your README there and the docs-folder and the entrypoint to your source tree, oh and also all this random guff that no sane reader would ever be interested in.

I still remember how I tried to read larger repositories for the first time and this was genuinely a hurdle, because I figured these files must be highly relevant for understanding the code.

My attempt at combating that has been to move as much of the code structure to the top as possible, so that someone new will have a much higher chance of clicking on something relevant. But yeah, downside is that your code structure isn’t as separated from the guff anymore…

If you search for “find duplicate files <your OS>” there seem to be some options…

I started noticing it around February or March or so.

I feel like it’s displacing Corporate Memphis, at the very least in terms of how much I hate it.

It was an effort by multiple Unix vendors to create a common desktop environment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment

*tabs Fedora*

I don’t have experience with Jujutsu, but I always have the same problem with these alternative frontends, which is that I’d still want to be proficient with the original. If you need to look up how to fix something or you want to help others in your team or you want to script something, then the language to speak is simply the Git CLI.

And I don’t feel like I even use the Git CLI enough where a different tool could be so much better that it’s worth learning both.
Obviously, your priorities may differ, but yeah, that’s just always the reason for me why I prefer the Git CLI, even if it were objectively more difficult to use.

Yeah, those models are referred to as “discriminative AI”. Basically, if you heard about “AI” from around 2018 until 2022, that’s what was meant.

Yeah, there were also several stories where the AI just detected that all the pictures of the illness had e.g. a ruler in them, whereas the control pictures did not. It’s easy to produce impressive results when your methodology sucks. And unfortunately, those results will get reported on before peer reviews are in and before others have attempted to reproduce the results.

I do enjoy the irony of them ignoring that particular social cue. 🙃

For testing new speakers, this song: http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Robbero/59698

On a definitely related note, I’ve recently been thinking it’s wild how we build foot paths out of rocks and then put on rubber socks for actually walking on them.

In other words, asphalt is a scam by Big Foot to sell more shoes.

I imagine, they can still get inflamed gums or similar, if something gets stuck in there…

I believe, you have to take turns pushing down individual teeth. By random chance, it will close the mouth when you do that. So, you lose when you get bitten.

I’m always amazed how badly companies understand the concept of human interaction. Showing appreciation requires putting in some amount of effort. If you just type some words into a box and an image comes out, that’s not anything. Might as well use the first clipart that comes up in image search…

I mean, for what it’s worth, I’m a seasoned dev and just did a run where I tried to answer everything as it makes sense to me (which is “throws an error” or “invalid date” for all of them) and I also got a score of 4/28.

…and two of those points were given to me, because the quiz interpreted my answer differently than I meant it.

In other words, this quiz exists to highlight that JavaScript’s Date functions make no sense.

I feel like it’s just capitalism doing a capitalism. People are self-conscious about their skin, so you can sell them all kinds of crap.
Even a basic washcloth does a decent job with exfoliating, if you use it regularly. Rub your face dry with a scruffy towel, if you need more than that.

But of course, there’s hardly any money to be made with reasonably priced products, so you won’t see TV ads for them.

Somehow, it feels like the fields are larger on average, even though this is clearly not the case…

A few years ago, all the languages I would use started to have automatic unused variable warnings built-in. And yeah, by now when I hear of people that don’t have that, it’s very much a feeling of “Man, you live like this?”.

I am not sure, but in Nix I declare the desired state of installed packages and configurations in an obscure language and the package manger takes care of that, right?

The package manager is only one (very important) component of the system that applies your configuration, but otherwise this is a good description, yeah.

Now the module declare reasonable default configurations? Like http server starts on system start and serves on port 80?

Obviously, it depends on each individual module, but so far, I’ve mostly been fine with the defaults. Typically, it doesn’t modify the configuration, unless you explicitly specify a configuration value, therefore using the defaults that the software normally uses.

Now you lost me at the Home-Manger. I can declare stuff in my home folder. OK, so for user-wide configuration? For packages and configuration in the user space? Or what?

It’s for user-wide configuration, so what would generally be stored in dotfiles. For example, you can configure the search engines in Firefox. Or the panel layout in KDE.

Home-Manager can also install packages, which is useful, because it can also be used standalone on other distributions. And in particular, you usually want to declare that a package should be installed and what user configuration it should use, all in one place…

In German, we also call the Netherlands “the low countries” (“die Niederlande”). 🙃