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  • Yeah, you generally just want the same auto-stuff done as would be enforced in CI anyway.

    … all the other stuff you could fix but wind up just ignoring because your team ignores it will just glare at you until you sneak it in somehow

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  • It's just a monoid object in a category of endofunctors, no biggie

  • How is the tap water where you live?

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  • I think this also influences our coffee habits. The water is kind of a significant influence on the result, and some roasting styles are likely better than others at covering up unpleasant water.

  • Does induced demand affect busses as well?

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  • The induced demand part involves a cycle of expanding roadways and then building detached housing to use that roadway.

    This would happen with buses, trams and bikes as well but for them the matching housing is a high-density urban fabric, and this is much more frequently blocked by zoning than detached houses. So we get essentially housing crises with incredible prices for quality urban areas as the demand is pretty huge, and some absolutely jam-packed bus and train routes, but following up on that is politically much harder than destroying some farmland or nature area to build suburbs.

    • If traffic is bad then it's treated as a problem that must be solved
    • If transit is packed like sardines then it's often ignored
    • If housing that enables a low-car lifestyle is incredibly scarce and expensive it gets waved off with stuff like "it's not a human right to live in the city" or "but a big building will cast a shadow on my lawn!"

  • Working with systemd timers - Dmitry Kudryavtsev

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  • post from 2025

    systemd is a relatively new utility that provides an array of components for Linux systems.

    what

    Snideness aside, systemd timers can be pretty neat. They also have some features like being able to specify "Daily" and setting some looseness in when it triggers if you e.g. have a fleet of machines and don't want them all to do something at exactly the same time.

  • Linux Marketshare on Firefox

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  • Might be tempted to view it through a housing & transportation comparison too. Someone who lives in a too-big house, drives a pickup to the office and complains about expenses and how annoying it is to sit in traffic might not be particularly interested to hear from someone who lives in a comfortable flat, rarely has to go more than 15 minutes by bike and does a lot of bike maintenance themselves, leaving a lot of time & money available for fun.

    Big houses and SUVs and pickups have their place, but investing in them because it's normal and I want to be normal is likely to lead to a lot of complaints.

    That said, Kids These Days seem to be treating phones and tablets as their default OS. There's some push in workplaces to use cheaper laptops like Chromebooks if they can get away with it, which with the rise of webapps is increasingly likely. Personally I wouldn't be very surprised if Windows users in the future can be grouped into people who need:

    1. something that's barely not chromeos
    2. something more like a desktop xbox os for gamers, and
    3. something that's kind of a platform for specialized native non-game apps (which may or may not be legacy stuff)
    4. (windows server? what's that???)

  • Am in the only one who cringes at install instructions that require piping some curl output into bash?

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  • This is simpler than the download, ./configure, make, make install steps we had some decades ago, but not all that different in that you wind up with arbitrary, unmanaged stuff.

    Preferably use the distro native packages, or else their build system if it's easily available (e.g. AUR in Arch)

  • Germans no longer see US as trustworthy partner

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  • They helped resuscitate Europe with the Marshall plan and helped keep us safe through the cold war with NATO. We have seriously had a good relationship for all of living memory.

  • Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!

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  • Yeah, the way things work in Norway and I expect in most other European countries is that you don't get a citizenship for just being born here, but if you're born and raised here, then by the time you're of school age you'd have lived here long enough to become a citizen, and unless your parents isolated you, you shouldn't have any problems with language requirements.

    Basically the system here is "stay here for long enough and make a bit of effort for integration and sure you can become a citizen".

    Of course, the far right loves to portray this as "unrestricted immigration" and make it harder for people to do that, or even live normally, get education and services for their kids, etc. And then complain when the result is people who feel that the system isn't working for them, or who have trouble because they're uneducated and poorly integrated anywhere.

  • I still like this meme

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  • You can give her limited sudo rights; even limit her to install and upgrade operations.

  • karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (@karolherbst@chaos.social) "MAINTAINERS: Remove myself"

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  • Leaking isn't really the issue, though I suppose Rust helps with that as well. Its memory sales pitch is more about memory safety, which is not reading or writing the wrong parts of memory. Doing that can have all sorts of effects, where the best you can hope for is a crash, but it often results in arbitrary execution vulnerabilities. Memory _un_safety is pretty rare and most prominent in languages like C, C++ and Zig.

    Rust also has more information contained in it, which means resulting programs can actually be faster than C, as the optimizer in the compiler is better informed.

  • karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (@karolherbst@chaos.social) "MAINTAINERS: Remove myself"

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  • Rust is already in the kernel and Torvalds wants more, faster. He's being obstructed by C purists, who at this point are the people who should fork the kernel if they see anything but C as heresy.

  • Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS?

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  • One rather obvious reason is that society has a lot of greybeards in general. The baby boomer generation was named that for a reason, and people have been living longer on average. Lots of countries are struggling with the demographic effects. There's no reason to expect that tech or something even more specific like FOSS would be exempt.

    Another aspect here is that FOSS is still kind of new in society. There's just more people who have had the chance to age into FOSS greybeards than when those greybeards were young. (And they were thus likely to a lesser degree blocked by entrenched greybeards when they were getting started.)

  • How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL?

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  • To be a bit more generic here, when you're at government scale you're generally deep in trade-off territory. Time and space are frequently opposed values and you have to choose which one is most important, and consider the expenses of both.

    E.g. caching is duplicating data to save time. Without it we'd have lower storage costs, but longer wait times and more network traffic.

  • Pete Hegseth crumbles when asked what Russia is conceding to Ukraine

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  • This needs some work to reconcile with how Trump appears to act towards the pretty poor Russia vs the wealthy EU, though.

    Likely he's just personally uncomfortable with powerful allies, and would rather have weak & subservient underlings. That this would leave the US worse off seems to be a sacrifice he's willing to have the Americans make.

  • Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

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  • Thing is, there is already Rust in Linux, and Torvalds wants more, faster. He's being sabotaged by C purists, who at this point should stop acting unprofessionally, or at the very least make their own "only C" fork if they disagree with his leadership so much.

  • The government doesn't use SQL

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  • Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month

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  • Yeah, it's essentially a weathervane or thermometer. You can indicate the state of a country by it.

    At this point the US has joined the ranks of, well, grim theocracies. Not that the people at the top in the US worship anything but Mammon.

  • unsafeCode

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  • What is C++? A miserable huge pile of "should"s