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Does this _need_ to be language specific, semantic and smart? Just a word-based diff would be so much better than a line-based diff.

Are there 2 things called fsync now? I had to ask google, because the article fails to explain it. Google says yes, this is something else than the fsync syscall (man 2 fsync).

Have medical researchers not heard of gitignore? Any hypothesis about the mechanism here?

Absolutely not. I wish everyone knew the difference between patents and copyright. You can download an open source HEVC codec, and use it for all they care according to their copyr…

Thanks for the link!

Hi fellow Kate user. I agree.

Ah, much better source: iOS is the answer to where the vulnerability was – right in the headline. I could not find that by searching for the usual keywords in the original post.

What a 90s thing to do! Shrug! fast forward to the 2020s Is there an app for that? I don't know how to put a shortcut on the a desktop anymore.

I thought so, but that's what I came to the comment section to know ;-)

Setting a variable by split identifier is surprisingly common in CMake (because functions can't return a value): > set(${VAR}_VERSION ${VERSION}) This is the main reason I don't li…

But not all governments, thankfully. Remember DVD-Jon? He won the trial for breaking DVD crypto, because consumer rights stood above trade secrets.

I see this as an attempt at a lesser evil, and I would support that (see my EME DRM comment), but I have one concern: Does this new "privacy preserving attribution" feature respect…

Yes, that line is important. This has happened before. Remember the critique against Encrypted Media Extensions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_Media_Extensions ): Oh no,…

Me too. I have a branch with some commits on top of git-revise where I implemented this config option: ~/.gitconfig [sequence] presentation-order-head-on-top = true Branch: https:/…

Why haven't more people heard of git revise? Unless you actually want to transplant your changes onto a new base, honestly, do yourself a favor and use this instead: https://github…

He couldn't have come up with a more french name? /s

The following heuristic has become increasingly true over the last couple of decades: If you have some kind of "charset" configuration anywhere, and it's not UTF-8, it's wrong. Pyt…

I think you are onto it: Why don't we use a heavier hydrogen-bearing molecule that is actually possible to store as energy bearer? You mention natural gas; that's one option (CH3 =…

I'm skeptical because C++ is a slippery slope. Glad to see they are going for templates and concepts, and not constructors and destructors. Yes, what C++ is supposedly good for – R…

Interesting. I can't help but think of Git as a benchmark for these criteria: In my mind, Git is very guilty of 1-5, and any CLI would struggle with 6 (save for discoverability), b…

Do you totally disagree that this is the minimum? I'm only saying that the context is the minimum. I refuse to disagree with you about things I'm not saying.

I also want to slightly disagree, or rather state a minimum: The most important part of a commit message is the context. Good enough commit log: utils: Minor drivers: Fix assets: U…

The irony is that most people who think they want an app would not see the difference between that and a shortcut to your webpage.

Whether you seek royalties or not, you only want to step on your own patents (or the participating parties, who can agree on licensing), not a patent troll (non-participating entit…

Patents against standards: It's a failure of our society when it's near impossible to write a standard without stepping on someone's patent. When an open standard is patented, it i…