Ephera

@ Ephera @lemmy.ml

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2h ago

Sexualisierte Gewalt: Franziskaner stellen Missbrauchsstudie vor
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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2h ago
98 Tatverdächtige
In Deutschland leben knapp 200 Franziskaner
Ähm, puh. Keine Ahnung, wie vergleichbar die Zahlen sind, weil wohl mindestens auch die Niederlande teil der Untersuchung waren, und weil evtl. die Mitgliederzahl seither zurückgegangen ist. Aber so sehr kann man das gar nicht schön rechnen, dass das auch nur annähernd normal aussieht.
Selbst wenn man die aktuelle globale Mitgliederzahl von 13.600 dagegen hält, reden wir immer noch von 0.7% Sexualstraftäter, was immer noch absurd hoch ist.

2h ago

It is awful

You could always have a proper alarm a few minutes later as a fallback...

3h ago

VSCode is Electron, i.e. a webpage, so it's not hugely surprising that they opted for the natively supported JavaScript Object Notation. ~~And also shows that they don't care for using the right tool for the job to begin with.~~

Personally, I much prefer TOML over YAML, because it does not have significant whitespace, and because you can read the spec in a reasonable amount of time. It just has so much less complexity, while still covering the vast majority of use-cases perfectly well.

8h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 8h ago

They're not supposed to contain data, but some parsers will allow you to access what's written into comments. And so, of course, someone made use of that and I had to extract what was encoded basically like that:

xml

    
<!--
    Host: toaster,
    Location: moon,
-->
<data>Actual XML follows...</data>

My best guess is that they added this data into comments rather than child nodes or attributes, because they were worried some of the programs using this XML would not be able to handle an extension of the format.

16h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 16h ago

We just document that this is how you write the config file:

ini

    
[network]
bind.host = "127.0.0.1"
bind.port = 1234

# etc.

And that seems straightforward enough. Yeah, technically users can opt to use inline tables or raw strings or whatever, but they don't have to.

19h ago

me🪪irl

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 19h ago

This one should work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Vs.

20h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 20h ago

I can kind of understand it after having to work with an XML file where users encoded data into comments for no good reason. But yeah, it does make JSON awkward for lots of potential use-cases.

20h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 20h ago

I don't feel like it will stray very far from what's dubbed "TOML 0.1" in the meme. Yes, it has inline tables and as of TOML 1.1, they're allowed to span multiple lines, so it's technically not anymore illegal to do what's in the meme. But all things considered, this is still a miniscule change compared to TOML 1.0.

20h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 20h ago

Well, you can still decide how much of the TOML features you actually use in your specific application. For example, I'm currently involved in two projects at $DAYJOB where we read TOML configurations and we don't make use of the inline tables that OP memes about in either of them.

Ultimately, the big advantage of TOML over INI is that it standardizes all kinds of small INI extensions that folks have come up with over the decades. As such, it has a formal specification and in particular only one specification.You can assume that you can read the same TOML file from two different programming languages, which you cannot just assume for INI.

1d ago

Why do people go out of their way to dodge manhole covers while driving?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

I would try to avoid driving over them when safely possible, because they make an annoying noise, which I wanted to spare folks living nearby from. ¯(ツ)_/¯

1d ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Well, Wikipedia does say:

The [TOML] project standardizes the implementation of the ubiquitous INI file format (which it has largely supplanted[citation needed]), removing ambiguity from its interpretation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOML

1d ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Counterpoints:

TOML is intended for configuration, not for data serialization, so you shouldn't be sending it over the wire in all too crazy ways anyways.
Most protocols will have a built-in way of knowing when the whole content has been transferred, typically by putting a content length into the header.
Having to wait until the closing } or ] can also be a disadvantage of JSON, since you cannot stream it, i.e. start processing the fields/elements before the whole thing has arrived. (You probably still don't want to use TOML for that, though. JSONL, CSV or such are a better idea.)

1d ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Well, TOML is essentially just an extension of the INI format (which helped its adoption quite a bit, since you could just fork INI parsers for all kinds of programming languages).

And then, yeah, flattening everything is kind of baked into INI, where it arguably made more sense.Although, I do also feel like non-techies fare better with flat files, since they don't have to understand where into the structure they have to insert the value. They just need find the right "heading" to put the line under, which is something they're familiar with.

1d ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

They serve largely different use-cases. JSON is good for serializing data. TOML is good for configuration.

1d ago

Different Grips

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

(too hard for me)

2d ago

Kenaf plants being processed in a field, Java, Indonesia, 1927

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenaf

2d ago

Feels more polite for sure.

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

It's kind of bad for scripts, where it can be either annoying or genuinely problematic, when your script hangs on a password prompt. You typically do want it to just fail right away, because if you have monitoring, then you'll be able to spot it failing.

These days, it is (largely reliably) possible to detect whether a command is being run interactively or as part of an unattended script, so you do see some commands that trigger a sudo password prompt only for interactive use, for example systemctl does this. But this adds quite a bit of complexity to each individual program, so it isn't really something that's going to be implemented universally.

I also have to say that systemctl kind of gets on my tits when it does that, because it throws up a GUI dialog for grabbing the password, which is quite jarring.

2d ago

Liste Möglicher Amazon Alternativen

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Habe mehrere Minuten damit zugebracht, einen Produktbegriff zu finden, wo es keinen "...24.de"-Shop dazu gibt, weil ich weder Werbung für einen Betrüger-Shop machen will, noch einen legitimen Shop durch den Kakao ziehen will. 😅

2d ago

Liste Möglicher Amazon Alternativen

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Finde ich cool, gerade auch weil's so ein bisschen schon kuratiert ist, einfach nur weil die Leute nicht jeden Schrottladen eintragen.

Wenn man halt in eine Suchmaschine "knalltüte online-shop" eintippt, dann kommen teilweise die üblichen Verdächtigen, teilweise dann aber auch knalltüten24.de, wo man sich einfach nur denkt, Leute, ihr könnt mir nicht erzählen, dass ihr nur Knalltüten verkauft und sich das rechnet.

Die mittelgroßen/regionalen Online-Shops findet man leider oft nur mit Glück, oder indem man bei den üblichen Verdächtigen schaut, wer deren Vertriebspartner ist.

2d ago

ich🧉iel

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Der nude Ossi