The missing 'e' is definitely on brand, at least!
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Other way around. They made Stash in house, they bought BitBucket, and rebranded Stash as BitBucket Server. The BB acquisition happened before Stash was released but Stash was not an acquisition.
I was of the impression that they bought Stash, renamed it to Bitbucket Server, and stopped development, while slowly attempting to reimplement stash code into Bitbucket cloud, one feature at a time?
Nope, you can see a condensed version of their acquisition history on their Wiki page for more proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlassian#Acquisitions_and_pro...
When BitBucket was acquired they were cloud only, and when Stash launched it was on-prem only. We used Stash and BitBucket Cloud around that time at the place I was working and I can definitely tell you that on-prem Stash was definitely not a reskinned on-prem BitBucket Cloud; for one I’m pretty sure BitBucket Cloud was written in Python (Django) and Stash was a typical Atlassian Java product.
Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working
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You can get into a similar state on MacOS by pressing a key multiple times in a row (option I think). It just quietly disables a large number of keys. I figured it out by accident one day because I assigned the key as my "push to talk" on Discord. That was a fun hour trying to figure out what had happened.
On MacOS if you remap your capslock to control there is a race condition on the login screen. If you use the control/capslock key to wake up your laptop and manage to time it right, you can enable capslock but not have a way to disable it (unless you remapped another key to capslock (why?)).
this happened to me a couple times before i switched to an external keyboard with qmk and just did the mapping in firmware
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I use caps lock, apart from being safe it also gives a bit of feedback in the form of the light going on/off even before the conplete wakeup.
I've also discovered that capslock is a useful way of detecting (linux) kernel panics. If everything freezes, and capslock stops toggling that light, your kernel is dead.
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#255Side note, @foone is a great account to follow on Twitter if you're looking for weird Hardware hacks and commentary on tech.
They have like 500 tweets just in the past day. I don't use Twitter, but doesn't that completely drown out your feed? How do you follow someone who's posting every few minutes?
They're arranged in threads. You just scroll up to the top of the thread you want to read.
Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working
#256Side note, @foone is a great account to follow on Twitter if you're looking for weird Hardware hacks and commentary on tech.
And ironically @foone hates Hacker news with a passion(1) for some reason and yet these threads make the front page of HN every 3 months or so! (1) https://twitter.com/foone/status/1310432709273989120?lang=en
> @foone hates Hacker news with a passion(1) for some reason
Here's their most recent thread (in response to this post) on why: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1440703149585563652
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This line is likely inspired by the concept of "Fractal Wrongness": https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fractal_wrongness and 2012's "PHP: a fractal of bad design": https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
> Fractally wrong people are often immune to the stopped clock rule because they are not exactly stopped clocks. More like clocks losing a random number of seconds a day, in the wrong time zone of the wrong planet, in the wrong solar system. That's a wonderful definition.
I think it's a bad analogy.
A clock losing a random number of seconds per day is actually correct more often than a stopped one.
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Wait you mean the GeForce Experience overlay? I must have reassigned that right after installation so I didn't remember. But at least this one warrants having a hotkey in the first place!
I've reassigned it to Ctrl+Shift+Alt+] because that is one of the key combinations I'll never press accidentally... or intentionally, for what it matters: what do I need this overaly for anyway? Also, it's also somehow easily memorizable, after all, I still remember it after 4 years since I've bought my NVidia graphics card.
While I agree that the specific hotkey used for the overlay is unfortunate,
> what do I need this overaly for anyway?
The overlay allows you to access a number of functions in games, much like the Xbox overlay. You can turn it off entirely if you don't need it, but otherwise the global hotkey is an integral part of it, because it's the only way to invoke it.
Contrast that with Catalyst Control Center which was a regular windowed application that you usually opened when performing first-time setup and then never needed to fiddle with those settings again. And it had a global hotkey AND a context menu shell extension, which took a couple seconds to load every time you right-clicked the desktop. It was insane. Loosely quoting Raymond Chen - noone ever got promoted for _stopping_ a feature from shipping.
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Capslock exists to make typing in allcaps easy. I use it most when I'm in a C project with lots of macros. I use it about as often as I use ten-key -- just enough to justify its existence, not enough to find alternatives in every os/editor/browser/etc that I use.
I used to use Caps Lock when rewriting my sloppy SQL for production. But VIM makes it very easy to 'uppercase' a word with `gUiw`.
Yep. That's one editor that I use, and only double the keystrokes.
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Gitlab is another culprit for this and their UI/UX is growing to be as awful as every other complex enterprise tool on the market. The search/filter box on the MR and Issues list has the appearance of accepting free input, but what you need to do is use some ridiculous no-code query UI to click your way to a valid query. I can't type 'author: xxx' into the field, because that will tell me that searching that way is u…
It's out-of-band signaling which eliminates the ambiguity between searching for "author=" and searching for an author. It's still probably bad user experience. I'm not sure if it's justifiable, given how GitHub code search mostly ignores punctuation (whuch I hate too), whereas GitLab seems more literal.
It's specifically related to finding authors of merge requests, or issues, rather than a generic code search.