Notices by Bean!_ (faho@octodon.social)

Fun fact: The discord app on Linux won't start if you have a package.json in your home directory

Why call it "Apache" and not "java's crypt"?

"This page looks better in the app "

well what if I want them to look like garbage? just utter, complete, entire shit?

what if I don't want to hand you yet another avenue for advertising to me just so that the page looks "better", but also doesn't actually behave like pages do in my browser.

what if I like how the page behaves now?

fuck you, show me the garbage page.

I would kinda like another term for "a person's theme animal".

You know, the sort of animal they like to have on their stuff? My mum had an unhealthy obsession with owls, but she wouldn't wear a suit and go to a convention, so "furry" doesn't really work.

And "spirit animal" is appropriative and also probably a deeper connection.

So I'd quite like a word for that?

Github currently has 966 repos with over 20k stars. The most starred repository is "freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp", and the most starred repo for a software project is facebook/react in 9th place.

You'll see a lot of documentation projects in this list - like the "awesome-foo" lists.

One explanation for that is that people use stars as a kind of bookmark. And they don't remove their stars, so this list also includes a fair amount of dead projects.

You will also see a lot of "flashy" projects here instead of the foundations they are built on.

If you ever see someone use "stars" as a metric for something, that's what you should consider. For most cases, it's probably not a great metric.

Ahahahahahahaha

Now I know why I've not heard of that "Arc" browser before - it's in private mac-only beta.

(also it's yet another blink user by a company that raised a bunch of capital and includes people from Tesla, Amazon, Snap, Slack, Pinterest - it's Silicon Valley: The Browser. The vibes aren't great)

I hate this marketing material so much.

The actual site for the browser says:

Arc is a browser

But more importantly,
it’s everything you care about,
all in one place.

Arc is a browser…
But more importantly,
it’s everything you care about,
all in one place.
Arc is your
space
to breathe
on the internet.
Are you ready to let go of the old internet?
Try it for yourself

(that is all of the text on the entire site - except it does some annoying formatting stuff and I believe that "Arc is a browser" bit is an image of text instead of text?)

This tells me... absolutely nothing?

I really don't understand how people can decide to use Discord for any form of documentation.

It's the equivalent of telling people to search through all your bug reports, which barely even works to prevent duplicate reports.

The obvious result is that people won't find what they are looking for and will just ask again. And to me one of the main reasons of writing documentation is that I don't have to answer every question every time. Ideally people will find the answer themselves, and if they don't I have something to point them at.

So using a chat log as documentation feels like a recipe to have to answer everything again and again and again and again. I don't get it.

It's always interesting to me how many people believe they can do full-time opensource on donations alone.

I very firmly don't. I believe if I turned on Github Sponsors I'd get 1.50€ per month, and at that point it's not worth what I assume the german tax system would inflict upon me.

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Wtf you can't enable unstable rust features on stable builds?

... what if these things stayed the same and this is an old version?

In general, rust does not want you to use even a slightly older version.

Everything is pulling you forwards, and even slight inconveniences for the sake of supporting older versions won't be taken.

That's... an extreme culture shock when you're coming from a position of using C++11 because C++17 support is "just not there".

I suppose it helps that getting a new rust isn't the massive pain in the cock that getting a new gcc is.

It's funny to me how that massive privacy-invading search engine company is called "go ogle"

Yes, spiders are web developers, but squirrels work in

nutworking

PSA: It is entirely okay if a thing isn't suitable for all possible use cases.

It is entirely okay to use different programming languages for different things.

For instance, a shell script isn't the right tool to solve an n-body problem.

Hot take: An extremely easy thing to do to make lisp more approachable would be to ditch the terms "car" and "cdr".

When I touch the build system, that's almost never because I want to change something about the build system, it's because there's something else I want to do but it requires a change in the build system.

Build system languages are programming languages that you almost exclusively use while yak shaving.

Anyway, here's my explanation on why we want to port #fishshell to #rust: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512#issuecomment-1410820102

(after the initial PR was a "pull request" PR and not a "press release" PR and, uh, reached an audience we didn't really expect and so the responders lacked some context)

Hot take: I consider it a failure that 23 years since the follow-up C89 still has some relevance outside of software archaeology.

And I'm not even talking other languages, it annoys me how you can talk about C and then someone will gotcha you with "oh that will only work since C99"