Didn’t the kinda do that in Behind The Curve?
They used a long body of water as a flat reference, set up 3 columns with a hole through them at the same height above the water reference.
A torch shone through 1 end should be visible at the other end if all of the holes are on the same plane.
Because of the curvature, they had to lift the last column to be able to see the light.
They didn’t manage to explain that one

When metrics become targets they fail to be metrics any more

Tests is the industry name for the automated paging when production breaks

It’s the SATA cable

I think that’s how themes are distributed for VSCode, right?
With VSCode, everything is an extension.
But the vscode marketplace seems to have filters for themes, so there must be some way to differentiate them.

I think extensions need a permissions system

What makes this even more sneaky is that JetBrains has a theme called “Darcula”.

So, with a wider generic theme called Dracula and themes that duplicate JetBrains Darcula theme, it is no surprise that “Darcula Official” is being installed.
It’s more than just a typosquat

Edit:
But why can a theme make web requests?!

When learning c++ you hate c++. Then suddenly you get it, and love c++. Then you learn more c++, and you end up merely liking c++

Invalidating creds sent over http is a great point!

For me, after looking over the docs, it’s close enough to JavaScript that it might as well adopt more of the syntax (for example, conditionals and loops don’t use parenthesis). It also has some similarities to python, but again not enough to be python.

Feels like an in-between language that has enough similarities to seem easy, but some gotchas that will regularly catch you out.
And then some extra features like the if chaining, which doesn’t have the keyword if or switch in it. So you have to know that that structure implies an if or switch conditional.

Especially for something like bash scripting, which devs probably don’t spend as much time doing compared to python or js. So, it would probably take them longer (and break their brain more) than just scripting it in python/js directly or dealing with bash directly.

It’s an improvement over bash, and it’s nice that it transpiles to bash.
I might have to play around with it and see how it actually feels to use

Trees!
Trees store lots of environmental and atmospheric data in their trunks. When they get fossilized a lot of that information remains intact.
Also, ice cores. Layers of ice protect previous layers of ice from further contamination, so are a pretty good snapshot of the environment/atmosphere at a given point in time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/67074940

Wiki has more detailed information on how Miyake Events are “stored” in trees and ice cores.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event

I’m here on Lemmy because I liked RIF and RES.
Reddit, the proprietary platform, made those pieces of software obsolete, and not in a good way.

I’m pretty sure open source software can extend closed license, proprietary even obfuscated software. That’s the cool thing about open source.

It’s just… Whether it’s worth the effort to hang your hat on proprietary software… That bit quite a few 3rd party Reddit apps in the ass

Tweaked some things

+2543; -5642;

Like yaml/toml

Yeh, for me git is a backup system.
My boss gave me a hand on some bits (more, I set up a framework and he could tweak pages). Anyway, I fixed some stuff, tidied some of his shit, then trying to get git to merge that back into his workspace REALLY stretched my knowledge of git LUL.
I’m sure doing that every day would get me up to speed, but ATM commit/push means “backup” to me

Like man milk

It’s a funny read.

IMO, the bridge example is more like joining a maintenance team looking after an old bridge. I’m sure there could be good metaphors of the old guy that hammered 300 of the original rivets, and can tell an interesting story about toilet breaks 250ft in the air. And new government regulations both about bridges and conservation of protected buildings/structures that somehow clash or whatever.
Building a bridge would be more of a startup/new project.

It does feel like it takes the most esoteric circumstances, as well.
Same could be said for “Steve that has to dig a ditch” seeing competitions of plant operators doing back flips in forestry machines meant to scale mountains.

It’s just that programming is a very accessible hobby that can transition into a career (how most programmers got a career, tbh), but is also the thing that modern business/industry/entertainment all depends on.

No you aren’t.
The title is demeaning.
“don’t want to throw shade” as if we all know what’s going on except the people involved in the link.
“Clearly the maintainer hasn’t heard of a certain…” Haha, we are in the same group, right? We know what’s up, guys… Right? Haha, look at these losers.

Never mind that you are applying a time pressure on open source maintainers to try and merge a change they don’t understand. Not very respectful. And quite frankly, in extremely bad taste considering the recently revealed xz social engineering.

Where is the question?
There isn’t a single question mark in your post. You frame it as if their problem and they don’t understand.
Even here, where you are so close to asking, you make it sound like you are checking that everyone here understands.

Nobody likes missing a train.
In this scenario, missing a train is caused by timezones.
It’s sarcasm. So against timezones.
Maybe, against more granular timezones, ok with status-quo, but would be happy if all official correspondence happened with UTC.
Possibly completely against timezones.
Maybe a mix of all of the above

Good god, imagine 360 timezones to describe each longitude.
Each timezone would be 4 minutes, and span roughly 56 miles (tho, that’s different as you get nearer the poles).
For the majority of things, it would be fine. Most appointments etc that are “booked” verbally would likely be within 56 miles, where “casual” time would work. Anything beyond that feels like a “significant” thing, which would probably involve written/digital communication - where computers could pick up the slack for translation.
And EVERYONE would be aware of timezones. So, even Microsoft/Excel would have to recognise that timezones are a real thing.

So, probably not that bad

He is the epitome of capitalism and nepotism.
He is not the epitome of tech meritocrasy