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Due to the impending lemm.ee shutdown I have migrated to notabot@piefed.soc

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Oh, well done.

Design Patterns is good, another one is The New Turing Omnibus.

I think the pupil size calculation is based on defraction, so it doesn't matter how dense your retina is, if your pupils are smaller than that you still wont see enough detail. This is one of the reasons why we keep building bigger telescopes and especially telescope arrays. The bigger the effective apeture, the finer the detail it can resolve.

So close to salvation salivation

The world being quiet.

Most of the time you're right, it's little more than a detail, but sometimes I miss the querying that it allowed. You could ask for things like a list of all branches that branched from a specific parent branch and modified a specific file, Which can be handy when you want to understand the impact a change might have before you make it and try merging.

Having the branch name embedded in the commit means you can meaningfully ask this sort of question. In git's model you can't say a changeset is in a specific branch once there are child branches further downstream because the changeset is in all of those branches.

Rather than come up with lots of examples for other queries (I know it wasn't the focus of your question, but I think it's really neat), I found this page which seems like a reasonable description.

Git branches are very different to Mercurial branches. In git they're similar to tags that move along with the head commit of that particular branch. In Mercurial every commit contains meta data indicating the branch it's on. It also has a query language that lets you do sone quite neat things with selecting groups of commits based on their metadata, which can be useful in code reviews and similar.

So 5 meter long sharks with 24 feet? That sounds terrifying. How far up the beach can they run?

Whilst I appreciate the source material, in this case it's not even danger he's running away from, it's being rubbish at a game he claimed to be good at.

I manage all my homelab infra stuff via ansible and run services via kubenetes. All the ansible playbooks are in git, so I can roll back if I screw something up, and I test it on a sacrificial VM first when I can. Running services in kubenetes means I can spin up new instances and test them before putting them live.

Working like that makes it all a lot more relaxing as I can be confident in my changes, and back them out if I still get it wrong.

How do such people program?

They don't. They used to copy and paste stuff they found on the internet, then when it doesn't work they made a barely coherent post on Stack Exchange, or maybe the issue tracker of one of the packages they think they're using. I suppose that nowadays they copy and paste whatever they get out of the LLM de jour, then try to tell it that it didn't work, copy and paste the answer and repeat until it either compiles or they finally give up and post to an issue tracker.

Seriously. Can you imagine, you've had this process running quietly for years, and it's getting you round some awkward tax or import restriction somewhere, you're making a tidy extra profit, and you don't even feel too bad about fidfling the paperwork a bit, after all, who's going to notice, a bunch of flightless birds? Then along comes the orange idiot and his cadre of fascists and accidentally expose you because they don't understand how to rationally calculate tarrifs and just get an intern to copy and paste from the nearest LLM.

It's laughing at this sort of thing that's jeeping me sane right now.

It's got to be something like that, there was something like $1.3m of machinery exports from an island populated by penguins. Someone was doing something naughty, and whilst the way these tarrifs are calculated is idiotic, it's fun that it's exposed sonething like this.

That probably explains why he wants to buy one despite being a citizen already. I'd guess he thinks it'll mean he wont be taxed on overseas income either. Figuring out whether he's currently paying any, and if so how much is left as an exercise for the interested reader.

Slinkitty.

That's definitely the American version, in most places they'd be wearing their uni-form to go to school anyway!

Surely they want to join the band so they can play their horn?

I'm not sure where you are, but typically even if you rent rather than owning you pay the normal taxes, either directy or via your landlord, so they have little to do with owning a property, and more to do with occupying one, as a proxy for the demands you put on communal services. In most places you would also not lose your home for not paying them, you'd get dragged through the courts, possibly jailed for some period, and the tax authority in question would just end up with a lien on the property, entutling them to recompense when you sold or refinanced it.

I'm not discounting the possibility you live sonewhere with different property tax laws, but you've been making extremely broad and general statements that don't match reality in many places.

They say that an ordnance tech at a dead run outranks everyone else, but I'd say a cat making a bee-line for shelter probably outranks them if you want to remain in the same number of pieces. Cats have good hearing and the nous to associate a stimulus with bad things happening and to get away in time.

Maybe my post didn't quite come across as I intended. I meant that that episode was so soul scaring that I've sort of mentally blocked it out. I still don't know why the writers did that to us.

Canaries were taken into coal mines to warn the miners of poisionous gasses by dropping dead. When the canary metaphorically picks the lock on its metaphorical cage and literally makes a break for the border, I think you can consider that a sign of a similar magnitude.