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  • PSA: including a diff in your git commit message can lead to it being applied to the code

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  • Context: this happens if you use patch(1) with patches generated by git format-patch. If you do, you should be using git am instead.

  • What is your preferred Android Launcher in 2026?

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  • Lawndesk. Its not on play store, you have to download apk from github, but it does not have a drawer.

    Every app is on the desktop, i organise them into folders and have a single home page with all the apps.

  • Nano Queries, a state of the art Query Builder

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  • I wouldn't call it state-of-the-art, but rather maybe most-straightforward or database-agnostic or as-simple-as-they-get

  • I Am starting to actually get somewhat comfortable using emacs

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  • I use helix btw

  • Tools built on tree-sitter's concrete syntax trees

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  • Yes. Highlighting, these selection actions and symbol detection all work with tree-sitter grammars. The whole premise of the editor is a modern-modal-editing with tree-sitter grammars.

  • Tools built on tree-sitter's concrete syntax trees

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  • I'm a bit surprised helix editor is not mentioned. It is based on tree-sitter grammars and allows for stuff like select-around-function or select-around-argument, to use grammar in the code navigation. Pretty wild and useful.

  • Unholy abomination

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  • Thank thee

  • Unholy abomination

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  • Hmm, i tried to make a joke about thanking both parent posters, which makes them a plural noun, which makes thou wrong as it is only used for singular.

    But i guess i was wrong in an orthogonal dimension as well.

  • Unholy abomination

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  • Ok, i'm on board. Thank thou two

  • Unholy abomination

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  • Yeah, but I think it is speaking in first person, about itself. So it should be "I saw" and "I think", regardless of its pronouns in third person.

  • Cherishing all nuggets of knowledge.

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  • Yea, but socket is not a file. Maybe if you stretch the definition.

    Well in any case, when people say that linux is great because everything is a file, they either mean that:

    • they can edit configuration of most things with a text editor, or that
    • in bash (and other shells) it is easy to work with byte streams, piping them from one process to another and compose complex behaviour from simple commands.

  • Cherishing all nuggets of knowledge.

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  • It could be a process, which you can talk to only via an IPC call. For example, dbus

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    I wrote a 573-page physics book, but I suspect it's actually a Game Engine specification. Here is why.

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  • You are either a crazy nutjob or a genius thinker. Interesting idea

  • When square pixels aren’t square

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  • Wikipedia to the rescue:

    However, some formats (ex., HDV, DVCPRO HD) use non-square pixels internally for image storage, as a way to reduce the amount of data that must be processed, thus limiting the necessary transfer rates and maintaining compatibility with existing interfaces.

    Actual displays do not generally have non-square pixels, though digital sensors might;

    TLDR; some formats use non-square pixels for reducing file size, some digital sensors has non-square pixels.

  • When square pixels aren’t square

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  • Does anyone know why anyone would want to encode their video using PAR != 1? Reducing the file size, by storing less pixels in one dimension, but not the other?

  • Average ideological debate

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  • I'm assuming guacamole is communism? What avocado?

  • Europe gets serious about cutting US digital umbilical cord

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  • Did Nextcloud get any more performant in the last 5years, or did the Austrian ministry shoot itself in the foot?

  • Lutra: General-Purpose Query Language

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  • Two great questions!

    First one comes down to how database query optimization and predicate pushdown in particular. In this case, albums would probably have an index on albums.id column, which would optimize get_album_by_id into a single index lookup. Ideally, I would want to have an explicit function for this, something like sql::from_index("albums", "id", 3), but there is no such thing as explicit index lookup in PostgreSQL right now.

    Regarding different function syntaxes:

    • curly braces { ... } construct a new tuple (think object, struct, record),
    • parenthesis are used for precedence. They are not strictly needed for function bodies, but they do give a better visual guide to multi-line definitions, especially when using pipe operator.

    So:

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func something() -> { ... }  # constructs a new tuple
func something() -> ( ... )  # returns a value
func something() -> ...      # equivalent to ( ... )

  • Lutra: General-Purpose Query Language

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  • I think that ORMs work great for 90% of cases, and abismally for the rest. They are also limited by the syntax and semantics of the language they are embedded in. For example, if you refer to a non-existing column, it would take a call to database to figure that out, and a cryptic error message with non-helpful code span.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Lutra: General-Purpose Query Language

    lutra-lang.org
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Lutra: General-Purpose Query Language

    lutra-lang.org
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Anyone running Sandstorm?

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Flutter is kinda good

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    10000 line PR? LGTM, lol

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Coders or lemmy, what editors do you use? Is it worth learning a new one?

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Still relevant, just substitute for win 11

    xkcd.com /528/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Electricians of fediverse, should I have my selfhosting box grounded?

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Yes, github, I want to dagger you

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Lemmings, what's your self hosted server power usage?