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contradictioned··on Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents
Severe Acronym Overload Disorder.

Funny enough, Google's overview box also suggests soad: "SAOD (or SOAD) most commonly refers to the rock band System of a Down"

contradictioned··on The RSS feed reader landscape
I’ll add https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer to the self-hosted list. It is my reader of choice since I think over ten years. Never had the feeling of looking for another one.
contradictioned··on Leadership is a hell of a drug
"I didn't forget my homework I just.. did it orally"
contradictioned··on HTML First
Drag and drop? At least that’s only using a pointer device without modifier key…
contradictioned··on Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings
I used to mix up terminal windows, and on some occasions tried to call a sudo command on university clusters. But I always followed it up with a sudo echo „sorry wrong terminal“.
contradictioned··on Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glass [video]
Funfact, the German term for this drop is Bologneser Träne (tear of Bologna).
contradictioned··on We updated our RSA SSH host key
Of course, there is no reason. But humans make errors, and humans deal with those errors.
contradictioned··on Self-Host All the Things?
I have something similar, but with traefik instead of nginx. Traefik integrates very nicely with docker using labels, such that the labels configure e.g. domain, path, http-auth etc for the web service running in a container.
contradictioned··on Extremely Linear Git History
yep
contradictioned··on Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX
Some more points, collaboration using e.g. git and its ecosystem, a representation that does not force you to use proprietary software (not sure about libre office for formulae), the ability to easily produce tex files by other scripts, e.g. to compile maths exercises from a set of templates.
contradictioned··on Unix didn't use to support '#!', a brief history
Or in Germany, it's sometimes called "Lattenzaun" (lattice fence)
contradictioned··on Preview, the Mac app people forget about
Preview is one of my most loved pdf viewers, next to skim for latex writing.

I often have pdfs from my scanner which I want to join into a single document or remove back sides which accidentally got picked up by the duplex scan. It's so easy with preview; if only it could do ocr...

contradictioned··on Tokamak Energy sets a temperature record among commercial fusion companies
It is enough to own black and decker... Scnr
contradictioned··on Bugs in Hello World
With that in mind, is this criticism of the Java hello world valid? Its output abstracts more than stdout and maybe in Windows this but would not occur. (I don't know, just discussing)
contradictioned··on Firefox Profilemaker
This is the first time I saw "Fx".
contradictioned··on Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place
Now, I miss Miranda. It was a multi protocol messenger I used for icq, aim, and jabber. Friends were more into trillian. But one always had bittlebee, I somehow envied this...
contradictioned··on WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
I managed to get a part of my family to Threema. Just the part of "you are paying for the product, thus you are not the product yourselves" was reasonable enough.

In my friends circle we are all on telegram (after trying wire which is just buggy as hell), but I think this is mainly due to its multi device story and then fact that it is not WhatsApp.

contradictioned··on Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Is 7zip really a good format for sharing data? I also use the program for unpacking and I like the context menu integration. However when I send files, I prefer zip because I feel like this is easiest for the recipient to open (no matter if they are using windows, linux, osx, Android...).
contradictioned··on German Professor Who Is Hardcore Star Wars Fan Repaints Observatory as R2-D2
He is also known for his Star Trek lectures. As far as I know only in German, but if you understand it, really entertaining https://www.startrekvorlesung.de/
contradictioned··on Notepad++ 7.9.1 – pour Samuel Paty
In this case, "a" could also mean that there were multiple victims, and he was one of them.
contradictioned··on How journalists use youtube-dl
But you cannot bill per view or click.
contradictioned··on What is the best dumb TV?
The oven in my apartment doesn't even have knobs, but only touch surface controls. It is so annoying as I cannot quickly set it to one of the three programs I normally use, and holding the "up" button for selecting the temperature is also not working well. Especially since the thing gets harder to control the dirtier my fingers are, and that just naturally happens when preparing a meal.
contradictioned··on Microsoft Excel’s 35th birthday
SQL is then the programming language. I am aware that this differentiation is outdated; but if one sees a scripting language as something to write a small, self-contained job and a programming language something bigger more thought through and interoperable, (and with a fair bit of hand waving), I think that analogy fits.

Of course here we do not only have a program but tabular data and operations on them.

contradictioned··on Microsoft Excel’s 35th birthday
Excel is the "database scripting language" as I like to call it. Very flexible, just do what you want and see a quick result.
contradictioned··on Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?
Same here. I really like it, because it just does what I expect from an RSS reader.
contradictioned··on Firefox 81.0
Handwriting the "one" of ten: 1 or l?
contradictioned··on Catching SQL errors at build time
That reminds me on sqlj https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLJ

I only heard about that in lectures but unfortunately could not really use it (sqlj was only compatible with Java pre-generics, so that was no option). Nice to see this idea revived.

contradictioned··on What's Left for Private Messaging? [video]
Several years with help of volunteers. There's also a bunch of people writing subtitles for the recorded talks; live streams are automatically subtitles nowadays. Some years ago we would even do manual subtitles for live talks.
contradictioned··on SQL Murder Mystery
Cool to see more SQL role play games, goes next to this bookmark of my former colleague: http://sql-island.informatik.uni-kl.de/?lang=en
contradictioned··on YAML: Probably not so great after all
Funfact, even Facebook, Whatsapp, and Telegram support preformatted text in triple backticks.
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