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  • What brands should we NOT boycott?

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  • But then you have to eat Tillamook cheese... I has no idea cheese could be so bland before I moved to the NW USA. And orange, for some reason.

  • What's a weird saying?

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  • What's a weird saying?

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  • I thought it was stating that something is God's will for your own purposes. AFAIK it's not just using terms for God as a curse.

  • Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?

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  • Not sure why they'd adjust. It's mostly urban areas where top speed makes little difference to journey times. Journey times are generally decided by how long you spend waiting at every light and intersection.

  • Git, invented in 2005. Programmers on 2004:

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  • When bzr, and then git, turned up and I started using them, I was told "this is DVC, which is a whole new model that takes getting used to", so I was surprised it seemed normal and straightforward to me.

    Then I found out that Sun's Teamware, that I had been using for many years, was a DVC, hence it wasn't some new model. I'd had a few intervening years on other abominable systems and it was a relief to get back to DVC.

    Regarding the original post, are there really people around now who think that before git there was no version control? I've never worked without using version control, and I started in the 80s.

  • Ocean Hedgehogs

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  • Figuratively, Street kids do tend to be.

  • Inching closer to the grave every day

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  • Also "the fucking old people caused this mess and are standing in the way of fixing it. We need them to die off so we can turn it around"

    There has never been a young generation not saying this. Many of them have been correct too, but few have turned anything around when it's their turn.

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  • I've used ThinkPads for ages and it's very true they have become more and more ordinary as the years go by, but I recently got given a high spec Dell for a new job and it's been very disappointing. In particular the keyboard is terrible to the point that on business trips I bring an external keyboard with me. I also sorely miss a trackpoint, but to many people that is not an issue.

    I was also surprised that I miss the ThinkPad ability to open up 180°.

  • Trump administration orders halt of NYC toll meant to fight traffic and fund mass transit

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  • Last time I was in Manhattan, walking to Penn station, I passed an ambulance with lights and sirens trying to get through. 6 blocks later I looked back and saw I was now 2 blocks ahead of it.

  • Looking for laptop recommendations

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  • Though if you're good with using Ubuntu then new ThinkPads and Dells and some others generally work well as you get the enablement patches before they've rippled through to the mainline kennel. However you still often have a happier time waiting for others to iron out the kinks, not to mention better hardware prices by getting clear out deals for outgoing generations.

    After years of ThinkPads I joined a company that gave me a Dell Inspiron and I am unimpressed in various minor ways. Crap keyboard is the big one.

  • Redshift isn't maintained anymore. what to use?

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  • Gnome's was very inferior last I looked. No brightness factor and it was sunset or fixed time.

  • Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces

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  • Sharing your work without cost to people who need it is pretty solidly left. But it certainly isn't red vs blue, not least because party political colors vary by country and in the US, neither refers to a left-wing party, and in most countries red aligns with left.

  • Coders or lemmy, what editors do you use? Is it worth learning a new one?

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  • If I went back to the vi interface for some reason I'd at least use ctrl-[. I dislike lifting my hand more than I dislike using modifiers.

  • Coders or lemmy, what editors do you use? Is it worth learning a new one?

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  • I used vi for a few years so have the muscle memory and the sole advantage in my perception was that everything is simple typing with hands remaining in the home keys position (except Escape, ironically).

    So it's more relaxed if you find using modifiers onerous, but I don't find Ctrl or Alt significantly worse than Shift, and I don't find it any worthwhile advantage.

  • How can I repair these dents my Ikea couch has been making in my hardwood floor?

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  • Pretty bizarre if people do this. I've never heard it to mean anything but linoleum.

    But a lot of people in the US use the word "turf" to specify not turf (i.e. artificial turf), so there's no reason for words to mean things.

  • How can I repair these dents my Ikea couch has been making in my hardwood floor?

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  • What? One of linoleum's benefits is not off gassing and not being made from fossil fuels. Are you thinking of vinyl?

  • Who put this guy in charge

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  • why is there no switch to enable type checking at runtime?

    Have you got problems this would solve? I've done a lot of type annotated Python at scale and I can't think of an example.

    Edit: given nobody in their right mind allows code that's not checker clean.

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  • You do know it is absurdist humor, yes?

  • What the Fuck happened with Gen X?

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  • Exactly. I don't know that it's just that, but it is that. It's not like the people are fundamentally different raw materials - a generation is defined by it's circumstances. And those were the gen x circumstance.

    (Edit: except resources. There were fuck all resources compared to today)