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by u801e 2y ago
I've been doing this with vim for several years since they added the terminal feature in vim version 8.
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by u801e 2y ago
Would they notice that she had not badged in or logged in on Monday morning? Unless she had already taken time off starting Monday.
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by u801e 3y ago
> Interestingly though I still use NNTP (News) daily. One community I participate in still makes use of a (private) NNTP server as the forum of choice. Only the lightest amount of moderation is needed, and trolls are swiftly booted. I re
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by u801e 3y ago
> I don't think they were suggesting to review the individual commits, rather the (individual) commit messages. That's a good point. > Commit messages are text, so you could have a similar line by line click-and-comment revi
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by u801e 3y ago
> It's an awful shame that GitHub doesn't allow commenting on commit messages. You actually can comment on a commit itself. I'm in the habit on middle-clicking on the sha1 link of commits in a PR and looking at the commit
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by u801e 3y ago
> A commit is required to have a bug id. The bug tracker has entire discussions of what lead to the commit Companies do change bug trackers and ticketing systems and those links may no longer work years down the line. > The bug tracke
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by u801e 3y ago
I can go up and down unobstructed stairs without any issues, but I have back problems which keep me from doing heavy lifting and I'm in no condition to jump or climb over a sofa in the middle of a flight of stairs. The real problem her
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by u801e 3y ago
> A couch and a fire and that couch can't be pushed over or jumped over. Not everyone is young and in shape to push couches or jump over them.
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by u801e 3y ago
> I like how vim is modal, but some Windows shortcuts (like Control-C) just make too much sense to given them up on Linux Ctrl-C does work in the GUI. That said, one thing I like about Linux is being able to highlight text using the mou
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by u801e 3y ago
> IRC simply a different use case than a forum. Except that newer products like Slack and email providers with their conversation view are conflating the two use cases. Slack tries to implement features of a forum by allowing threaded co
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by u801e 3y ago
Or a usenet newsgroup.
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by u801e 3y ago
Yet, when I'm browsing Facebook, I frequently encouter an issue where the brower tab process starts allocating 5% or more of resident memory (on a 16 GB memory machine). On the other hand, my usenet client worked just fine on my compu
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by u801e 3y ago
I remember the days when having 16 MB of memory was plenty to do that.
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by u801e 3y ago
It's too bad yenc didn't take the place of base64 for email.
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by u801e 3y ago
At least on my system, it's not an issue: $ date --date="@2200000000" Sun Sep 18 07:06:40 PM EDT 2039
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by u801e 3y ago
As for what the future holds: $ date --date="@1800000000" Fri Jan 15 03:00:00 AM EST 2027 $ date --date="@1900000000" Sun Mar 17 01:46:40 PM EDT 2030 $ date --date="@2000000000" Tue
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by u801e 3y ago
> > * enables use of git bisect to locate bugs > This is really only viable if each intermediate commit on a development branch is intended to be bug free. git rebase has an --exec option that allows you to run a command or set of
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by u801e 3y ago
Another good reason is that having a small commit that changes just one thing is a lot easier to revert without encountering conflicts, even after other features have been committed to the main/master branch.
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by u801e 3y ago
> Even emails were not a proper replacement. Initially free providers only supported sending/receiving emails with 1 to 5 MB attachments. Pretty much every ISP provided an email address for each account. Some email clients supporte
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by u801e 3y ago
> Indeed, but trying to revert lots of tiny commits in one unit is no better. You shouldn't have to revert a lot of tiny commits if the bug is due to just one of those commits. > The result of a pull request should be the equival
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by u801e 3y ago
Not only that, they also result in commits that change a lot of files and make many changes in each file. Try to revert one of those commits is difficult after other changes have been merged into the main branch.
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by u801e 3y ago
> The point is [the squash commit method] enables bisect workflows that don’t suck. If half the commits in a tree are “fix misc derp” or “test passes now”, that workflow isn’t possible. The problem with squash commits is that they tend t
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by u801e 3y ago
Copy-paste may not work depending on how the email client renders the email. For example, if the email client doesn't preserve prefixed whitespace, then the resulting patch may be corrupted or not apply. Saving the actual email to a
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by u801e 3y ago
> I don't yet see how that is different from just... a sequence of commits The difference is a sequence of commits that implement a feature where each commit basically is a logical change that does a single thing (e.g., add a functi
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by u801e 3y ago
Save the email to your local machine (in gmail, click the 3 dots and choose download message). Then run git am < saved_email_file.eml
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by u801e 3y ago
> I am nowhere near convinced that GH's review interface is the simplest possible. It wasn't initially designed with code review in mind (unlike systems like phabricator, gerrit, review board, etc).
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by u801e 3y ago
> It's surprising to me that GitHub currently doesn't attach review comments to specific commits It is possible to comment on commits in github (you can do it by clicking on the sha1 of the commit and then making a comment on a
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by u801e 3y ago
> It'd be a useful thing to import without having to bring in the whole charade of using email and mailing lists (which most mail clients tend to be very unfavorable of in general nowadays) This is a misconception. git itself has c
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by u801e 3y ago
One advantage of a remote desktop protocol over x11 forwarding is being able to keep the application(s) open and in the same state when you disconnect and connect from another machine or access the host machine. I haven't really used x
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by u801e 3y ago
Email clients have moved over to conversation view, which is supposed to make email threads look like conversations you see in a chat client. The message itself still quotes all previous messages, but it's all hidden unless you look f

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