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As a German, I can confirm it to be a problem here too. While we don't have as many trucks, misalignment is cancer. But even for cars with properly aligned headlights, all it needs is a slight hill to have this headlight blind me again. I think the real issue is lights getting (at least as percepted by the human eye) more and more bright.

What they lack, however, is deeper support for users on different servers (at least I couldn’t find any). Part of the appeal of Gitter is that it syncs with GitHub: kick someone off your team there, they’ll lose they rights in the Gitter channels etc. If I’m connected using another Matrix server however, there’s no connection to my GitHub account. So while one can obviously chat using this other Matrix server, there are no benefits of Gitter over just opening a room on some random Matrix server anymore.

Well, last time I checked, at least two people were needed to have sex. Makes it hard to follow this request for some…

They're on their way: https://uutils.github.io/user/test_coverage.html

> If you're using someone else's labor, it's only fair they're allowed to dictate the terms of how you're allowed to use it.

And they are, that's what choosing a licence is all about. In case of MIT/ISC/BSD/WTFPL licensed software, this someone else just decided to dictate a lot less than he could have.

I'm using Fish for years, tried Nushell recently, but it didn't click for me. While I like the principle of data being more than just plain text, it probably was just too alien to me.

A few here said they don't use Fish or another shell due to compatibility issues, but I wonder what the problem is: If I want to use a script written for another (POSIX) shell, it most likely has a shebang (or I can add it), so it will get properly executed using that other shell…

Game dev is large part C++ exclusive because of legacy (the widely used engines were started long before Rust existed), so does one really have a choice if the goal is learning game dev? In the end, you learn what you need to accomplish your goal, even if you'd prefer other tools.

It's simultaneously a good and a bad thing Git is so dominating nowadays. On one hand everyone can just jump on everywhere as the tooling is familiar, but on the other hand there's so much more out there. Fossil looks really nice, but I see no use (for me) as long as there's Git and surrounding tooling (Github and similar).

I used to use Crashplan on Windows back in the day, but their interface is (was?) horrible and it's all Java, so when I switched to Mac I compared some options and in the end chose Backblaze.

Always have local and offsite backup, so you can get to it quick when the laptop dies, but still have options when the house burns down. For me that is:

* Connect an external drive every few days for Time Machine to do it's magic. If I forget, it will remind me after a week or so.

* Continuous offsite backup using Backblaze. Really, they're great!

If you want continuous backup locally too, you could use a NAS for Time Machine to backup to instead of a simple drive.

I wonder how big the market is for this. Despite being an actually nice language, Swift is not that popular outside Apple's ecosystem, so I guess most developers would use XCode for it's integration (with Apple Developer, SwiftUI/preview etc).

To quote John Gruber of Daring Fireball[1]:

    > There’s only one big tech company that seemingly never played this hire-for-the-sake-of-hiring game, and thus hasn’t announced any layoffs at all, let alone a headcount that would fill a basketball arena. Just one. One company that has, at its best, always kept its cool in the face of economic swings both up and down.

Well, he doesn't call it an apple here, but I think his observation nontheless is sound, that most of these companies just hired for the sake of hiring the last years. Another observation I read yesterday (forgot where), MS laying of 10k isn't that much considering they hired 12k last year.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/01/20/google-layoffs

I found those in the inspector, sure. But I can't find them in the base64 encoded header.

Edit: Nevermind. I tried like 10 different online base64 decoders before, till I found one wich didn't show just garbage (maybe they all hiccup on the emojis?), but even that one didn't decode properly as it seems. Either the eleventh one now told me the whole truth, or I should've used curl -i from the start instead of copy/pasting from Firefox's developer tools.

Finding the source in the header was obvious, but I can't figure how to decode that properly. I can see the rules for body{} and @keyframes{}, but no idea where all the text (the before/after rules) are hiding..

The best tool I've found so far to migrate from Twitter to Mastodon, now that they pretty much killed third party clients.

They shipped breakage of third party clients for sure..

Well, we all already know alcohol does more harm than broccoli. If that isn't enough to stop someone drinking it, why would cancer warning labels?

Rust Analyzer can add `use` statements on confirming completion and clippy will complain/remove unused ones, if that's what you want.

When I first discovered YAML, I loved it's apparent simplicity. Nowadays, I sigh every time I have to use it and am very happy with the Rust world having mostly adopted TOML.

Unix is not just a set of terminal commands, it's the whole system architecture, and the fact that all those derive from the original old AT&T Unix. If I run the Bash shell on Windows, it won't turn it into Unix either..

Never knew it was that old. Sure, watching it nowadays, it's obviously not done using modern technology, but a compelling story and acting instead (which is often lacking in modern blockbusters). I'd have put somewhere in the nineties maybe, not '81..

Well, to quote some Go..

  if err != nil {
    return nil, err
  }

My employer (in a ~40k town on the border of a metro region) rents out space to the local Sparkasse, who have 3 or 4 banking buses and a small non-public office there. I can see these buses come and go every day.

That said, last time I visited an actual bank branch was like 10 years ago to terminate my account with Sparkasse, have used an online-only one ever since.

I did the same challenge this year, though I didn't use as “esoteric” languages (TeX… I love it :D), but I've made it more difficult than necessary by using the languages I'm familiar with first, before realizing this might be a mistake… I've written on my learnings on the AoC subreddit[0] and if you'd like to see my code, it's of course on GitHub[1].

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/zwi0t4/2022_w...

1: https://github.com/d12bb/AdventOfCode/tree/main/2022

Or even 2022.

Depends. Highly specialized apps (Blender comes to mind) fare better using custom toolkits. Anything else probably should use the platform-native one, not only for looks (lots of really great mac-only apps use customized widgets, see Things as example), but feel and integration as well.

> Anyway, use firefox or librewolf. Stop enabling the chromium monopoly!

Or Safari of course, it's really a great browser if one's on the Mac.

Anything HomeKit is local-first. That's one thing Apple actually got right, and thankfully has pushed into the new Matter industry standard too. Won't work without some Apple device though of course.

I sometimes think the ~40 I do have to be a bit excessive :D

I redid my config [0] using Tangerine recently and am very happy with it. Lisps are such a great thing just from a syntax and readability perspective alone. Can't understand all that startup time craze though, my Neovim has always been opening without any perceptible lag without me doing anything to optimize it. Maybe it's just me…

0: https://github.com/d12bb/dotfiles/tree/main/nvim