Is there a #git feature I can enable to hit me on the head with a Looney Tunes-style mallet if I run git checkout -b and it doesn't successful create and and switch branch?
So I don't ignore the error and accidentally commit to master.
@ids1024 I just finished handling an incident that was caused by a coworker somehow committing a file with unresolved merge conflicts. So yeah, maybe we could use a feature like that for that case as well.
Idea: an isometric game like the original Fallout, but the computer terminals are substantially more fleshed out. And "hacking" of one form or another replaces combat as a game dynamic.
Different computers in the world can run different operating systems (FreeDOS, NetBSD, AROS, Plan 9). You may be able to telnet into a system if you know the credentials. If you don't know how to read a file in DOS, hopefully you find the book explaining it in game.
#Wayland protocol proposal: the server decides whether to use client-side or-server-side decorations, but the client may challenge it to a duel. Each must have another Unix process as a second. Server gets to choose the weapons.
Apparently debootstrap works with #Debian versions back to Potato (2000). But despite the fact there are package archives for every version since the first Debian release, Buzz (1996), Potato is the first one with a Release file?
Actually if you want a chroot of Debian buzz, the Debian archive has a tgz of the base system. So you don't need to deal with the floppies and installer.
...But Bash 1.14.6 may not be entirely happy running on a modern x86_64 kernel.
> The maximum length of the name field is implementation-defined. [No further detail or minimum mentioned.]
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> An implementation MAY define this function to pledge the computer's fealty to fire giant Surtr against the gods, hastening the coming of the Ragnarök.
[After more research] Okay, I think only AIX ever implemented the Ragnarök part. Hopefully no one runs my program there.
But macOS does limit this to at most 7 characters for some reason.
Media depicting cities in the late 19th century really needs more horsecars.
Though really. Victorian London in particular isn't too unpopular of a setting in film. But I'm trying to think if I've seen depictions of it show electric trams. Or horse-drawn, or cable. Though I might not remember it.
I like how Red Dead Redemption 2 shows the late days of the "wild west" alongside new electric trams, in a way you don't seem to see so much.
@ids1024
I remember when I was using Konqueror with the original KHTML as my daily web browser many years ago. Eventually I switched to Firefox, because websites with a lot of CSS loaded much slower in Konqueror than in Firefox.
I've thought before of how our use of decimal and a particular epoch impacts our perception of history in "decades" and "centuries". But hadn't done any specific comparison.
Here's the recent anno domni years in hexadecades. In some ways it seems somehow more appropriate than decades.
@ids1024 I used to stay in a hotel in Gdansk, Poland, called the "Robotniczy", which was a former workers' hostel. A labourer is Polish is a "robotnik".
@ids1024 plenty of random hardware still ships with an odd USB2 port. I don't think it’s common for it to be the only port at all anymore, though; on laptops or even NUCs I’ll usually see one port on one side be USB2 for whatever reason.
@matt Yep, Intel released their first discrete Arc GPUs last year. They don't seem to be targeting the top end of the market yet, but seem to be viewed positively relative for the price.
I've just realized that #C seems to use virtual function calls much more than #RustLang. Which is a bit interesting given Rust has virtual functions and C doesn't.
@ccgargantua So the Linux kernel can define a certain interface for a type of driver to implement, and the driver fills in a struct with function pointers to its implementation of those calls. C code like this is "object-oriented" in a sense.
Rust tends to prefer to do the same things with static dispatch, using type generics or enums (which in C would be a struct containing an enum tag and a union).