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the git repo has more info about the 15.11.2 release: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/commit/d5dc7d794ce2fc... - Only maintainers of projects should be able to assign runner…

i doubt there's a noticeable difference after applying any "dumb" file compression scheme, e.g. brotli/gzip

this can be solved on the file system layer below. on my laptop with btrfs this requires no special effort: simply copying the files and renaming them suffices. nautilus (gnome fil…

not sure about mysql, but in postgresql an update on a table with a foreign key will take 'FOR KEY SHARE' locks on the referenced table, which is a weaker type of lock. updates on …

nit: the suffix -um in latin typically indicates a neuter grammatical gender. -us is usually masculine, and only in its accusative form it becomes -um. there are exceptions though,…

in a similar spirit, i wrote "sanest", sane nested objects, tailored specifically for json fornats: https://sanest.readthedocs.io/ it does not have the exact same feature set thoug…

thank you, random stranger, for sharing your gnu/extremism. while i am in no way defending software patents (which I don't like at all), i find the full-frontal attack attitude tha…

this is a very important point. i tried swiping in my phone using the colemak keyboard layout which i use on normal keyboards, and found it utterly unusable because the prediction …

thanks for writing this down. i completely agree with you. i am a happy emacs and magit user. i contribute to emacs packages, and maintain a few myself (emacs-direnv, evil-swap-key…

that project did not exist since i switched to colemak only recently, and that made my evil-mode setup (vim editing on top of emacs) completely unusable for me, which is why i star…

keep in mind that normal keyboard activity is completely different than typing a piece of text from the first letter to the last letter in one go. being efficient with navigation, …

many consider it best to touch type your normal layout (colemak, qwerty) and to use hunt-and-peck when forced to use qwerty. it helps not messing up muscle memory for the normal la…

you mistake speed as the dominant factor and then you claim you are fast enough so switching is not worth it, while you should instead focus on comfort. you will only fully realise…

if you are interested in vim ergonomics and alternative layouts, i wrote extensively about the vim + colemak layout i use on a daily basis: https://github.com/wbolster/evil-colemak…

among some other differences, colemak has better shortcut compatibility. a z x c v are on their qwerty position so "select all", undo, cut, copy, and paste are one-handed shortcuts…

perhaps you should give a split keyboard a try.

the historical reason for staggering are the metal arms on mechanical typewriters, which obviously does not make any sense nowadays, but unfortunately the design stuck, as did the …

Logging in means granting access to all kinds of private data, including deploy keys. This doesn't seem right.