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VarSets[0] introduced recently in 1.0 and mentioned in a grand-aunt comment are a good alternative to spreadsheets used this way. [0]: https://wiki.freecad.org/Std_VarSet

That work like this often predicts a good portion of the technological advancements, but usually completely misses the mark on the execution and the enshittified commodification is…

My default pull is ff-only. I don't like merging or rebasing by default. When working in a short-lived branch, I like to rebase. I usually get no or simply easy-to-solve conflicts.…

You're absolutely correct! The "how to modify an environment variable" bit and the bin-dec-hex table made me feel the same way. Then I saw the part explaining how to check for dupl…

One more from me: mkcd() { mkdir -p -- "$1" && cd -- "$1" }

Most input is text, most output is text, commands are text. Vast majority of programming languages can process and produce text out-of-the-box. There are countless utilities for pr…

I ended up writing a similar plugin[1] after searching in vain for a way to add temporary DNS entries. The ability to add host entries via an environment variable turned out to be …

Just tried it on our codebase. Getting over a thousand errors, a good portion of which seem to be: ../../../tmp/typescript-go/built/local/lib.dom.d.ts:27982:6 - error TS2300: Dupli…

Exactly. They want _their_ oligarchs controlling their 99.(9)%. This ban is as close as you can get to open admittance.

(Not directed at the parent comment but the thread in general) I don't know why people are more interested in labeling it than explaining it. (Although admittedly, they go side by …

Is there some sort of explanation of what DMNO is?

So: "Sleep on it" is an effective strategy.

A pain point, for me, is having to explicitly type private functions. I like refactoring independent blocks out into functions, to separate the scopes and have readable summaries a…

Ahh, very nice. It was fun to rediscover/relearn some of these things through this game. Very nice wording on the 5-color challenge! I think it was the perfect balance. One thing I…

I tried using a PostgreSQL SKIP LOCKED queue once, turned out to be a mistake. It was a queue for a distributed worker pool. The simpler alternatives I was used to at the time (Rab…

"[C] is simple but expressive, practical but admitting of elegance (think of some of the pointer arithmetic in K&R); it is small, fast, and portable; it is the lingua franca of pro…

This is ridiculous! Someone should fix it and send a p—oh.

At least you get English videos. A couple of times I've gotten videos in... Hindu, I think, by searching in English and clicking on a video with an English title. And it was a tech…

I think that line has been blurry (blurred?) for a long time. Is it ill-intentioned when Apple slows down charging with non-authenticated cables because "they might be shitty and h…

IPv6 with a 16-bit payload size limit?

Indeed, this is how I did it. 2^28 is around 270 million. With little more than a handful options, it should be possible. Although I have to say, it turned out to be more difficult…

It's the identity element of the monoid, no? Similarly, the product of an empty list should be 1.

I think it is a text book example of the main difference in DNA between Google and Apple: Google is all about crowdsourcing. Apple is all about curation. What's in their DNA is bei…

"Google Maps" is a misnomer. Call it "Google Business Search" or something similar, and the perceived problems disappear. Google Maps provides a small fraction of the functions of …

I think the reason is simpler: Unchecked exceptions. Investing in (checked) exception safety is not as valuable when anything can throw an NPE.