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Cold ketchup on hot french fries is one of life's great joys, though.

> You can invoke git-who as git who by setting up an alias in your global Git config This works even without the alias, by the way: by default `git whatever` will search your path …

FWIW, the latest stable release is 7.0.12, released a week or so ago: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/upcoming/release-notes/7.0/ . (I'm not sure why the URL has /upcoming/ in it, act…

Field size for American football is definitely standardized: 100 yards between goal lines and 160 feet wide. Lots of Americans will have an intuitive sense for how long something l…

Man with PhD in subject is pedantic about that subject on Hacker News, film at 11. ;) There are, of course, stylistic norms, and a lot of those norms are shared across lots of kind…

I'm not sure what your dissent is, so I'm not sure how to respond to it. I think you're saying that you had a good experience in your music theory classes, which used Bach chorales…

What I mean when I say that music theory is a descriptive enterprise is quite literal: the research that professional music theorists do is designing theories to describe music we …

Fair point; that's partly my own bias (I know basically nothing about non-Western musics), and partly because of the article I'm responding to ("Bach doesn't tell us anything about…

We know quite a lot about Greek music theory (Thomas Mathiesen's Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity in the Middle Ages is the go-to source here: https://archi…

Oh boy. Music theory, as such, has no "rules," and so of course Bach did not invent them. Music theory is a descriptive enterprise, which aims to make sense of music as composed/pe…

While acknowledging that git's CLI is often unintuitive: `git tag` lists tags, `git branch` lists branches, and `git remote` lists remotes, so I don't think I understand this parti…

The current version of perl is 5.36 (it's a really good perl). The language formerly known as Perl 6 is now called Raku. The "Perl 7 initiative" referred to in the grandparent is t…

Very little of git as used by most people is Perl these days; almost everything has been rewritten in C by now. A few things remain, but they're pretty niche: git-send-email, the g…

Perl may or may not be relevant in 2022 (it's certainly relevant to me ), but this article does not do a great job at explaining Perl's merits. The example code, in particular, is …

Yeah, `git log --format=%ae | sed s/.*@//` will get you most of the way there, and then it’s down to how you want to deal with the domains themselves, as you say!

The rule we have is that anything that is not idempotent and not run as a matter of daily routine must dry-run by default, and not take action unless you pass --really. This has sa…

Yeah, that seems to be the case (confirmed with their little example at https://github.com/mdn/dom-examples/tree/master/server-sent-... ). Once the connection is closed you can see…

Hmm! You're right that I hadn't looked it a while, so I checked before making the comment above. I'm still seeing the same thing I always have, which is "No response data available…

SSEs are one of the standard push mechanisms in JMAP [1], and they're part of what make the Fastmail UI so fast. They're straightforward to implement, for both server and client, a…

Just to second this…Joe has done lots of great work at Fastmail, but ‘vesta show’ might be my favorite.

Oh yeah, our support team is worth their weight in gold. They're all real people who know an awful lot of arcana about the nuts and bolts of email, and much more friendly and helpf…

For what it's worth: as a Fastmail employee, it's also extremely irritating for us!

(I work for Fastmail.) One of our attempts at doing some mitigation of the attack caused this; we fixed it about 16:00 US Eastern this afternoon. Sorry about that! Without getting …