@f4grx@georgetakei well, yes, you can. It's hard to do and you have to try out different papers, but toilet paper should be fine (and it's long enough). Iirc they folded up to 12 or 14 times
what problems do you run into with git's staging area? right now I'm feeling like the staging area is one of the least confusing parts of git (merging, branches, and remotes seem to cause people a lot more problems) but I'm very open to writing about it if there are problems
@b0rk in our #plan9#9front git implementation there was a decision to not have a staging area, because there might be better alternatives, iirc, but I don't know the details. Maybe someone from our bubble can tell more?
Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use #Windows, #macOS, or any version of #Linux with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.
Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.
Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.
@aires I'd also add "As We May Think" to the pot. It should remind us that it's not that much about the machine, but the purpose of the machine, and the vision that helps us build machines that fulfill that purpose.
The thing most people don't remember about Prometheus is that humans already had fire, but then Zeus locked it up behind a paywall, because Zeus was a petty little bitch. Prometheus stole it back. In this essay about DRM I will
@incoherentmumblings@vonneudeck@jwz Gen 5:4: sons and daughters. Daughters often weren't that important, so you can often only find references like that
@arti@eichkat3r@ZDF würd ich sagen, hängt vom autor ab. Perl erlaubt einem auch sehr lesbaren code zu schreiben. Aber ich verstehe natürlich den Scherz 😉😁
I wonder if someone ever analyzed the "mobile cost" (bandwidth, battery usage, ...) of messengers like #WhatsApp/ #Signal/ #Telegram, chat systems like #IRC, and maybe even more "exotic" chat systems like #mail, @delta -chat, #fedi?
@zash@polezaivsani@delta wow, that's basically exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for sharing (and thanks @autkin for doing that research). I'd certainly like to see deltachat in there, too, just because it's "weird" in its own way
@sbseltzer I don't think I ever had one of those weird ones then. Most nasty ones were weird compiler errors, but not linker errors, as far as I can remember
@sbseltzer just recently I had a very weird one. It was a BlueprintCallable function with some parameter (I don't remember the type, probably something strange like a delegate), and the generated function had a const parameter instead. Obviously, that didn't compile until I changed my initial declaration.
@drewdevault that's why I'm using a pixel. It still has a lot of bloat, but only the bloat of one provider and the stuff that you basically need when using Android "normally". Other manufacturers sell the same bloat, plus their own bloat, plus third party bloat.
@SnoopJ@regehr I believe that you have to teach C in a context. For example, you will need to teach something about unix and/or operating systems to teach C, or at least some of the philosophical aspects. To teach unix or operating systems you have to teach some C. Though it's a question about what you want to focus on.
I also believe that students should gain some understanding of the hardware and how computers work on a fundamental level, but that's another topic
@regehr@againsthimself I believe, regarding pointers, you should get to a point where pointers "aren't hard", because they aren't hard to understand. At some level of complexity, they're hard to work with, but it feels like many people have issues understanding the very basics of pointers.
I wonder if there is data somewhere about the number of dead links. I would like to have data supporting my hunch that they represent a growing fraction of all the links out there. Sure feels that way, although I suspect with most web sites being dynamic, it's unquantifiable.
Data is not forever. May Shannon bless the the Internet Archive.
@robpike I'd also see that a removed resource results in 0-n dead links, while a removed link does not result in a dead resource (only a resource that's harder to find).
Also, people tend to think more in resources, not so much in links. I guess people will remove resources quite easily, but they won't hunt for all links to remove them, because that's a lot of work.
Klappt mal die Bücher zu, heute wird ferngesehen. Denn unser erster Animationsfilm „Das Grundgesetz der Tiere“ ist JETZT im ZDI verfügbar! Du hast keinen Internet-Zugang? Kein Problem: Der Film läuft um 23 Uhr im ZDF. https://kurz.zdf.de/Mb6/
@zdfmagazin ich finde es super, dass ihr hier Bilder mit Untertitel macht. Ich selber brauche sie zwar nicht, es gibt aber genug Leute, die das brauchen. Weiter so!
@mwl E-mail is weird nowadays. I had a hard time setting up my mail server to make it "safe enough" for Google and other big providers. It really feels like spam protection over spam protection over spam protection, because nothing really worked so far, so let's combine all of them...
Hamburg, 1959: Im Außenbereich eines Cafés sitzt eine Familie. Das Wetter ist offenkundig nebelig. Auf dem Tisch stehen zwei Tassen, vermutlich mit Kaffee. Alle Personen tragen einen Schutzanzug inkl. Atemschutzmaske.
So wurde die Bevölkerung über Selbstschutzmaßnahmen im Falle eine Atomangriffs aufgeklärt. Solche absurden Beispiele kamen in der Bevölkerung nicht gut an.
Die ganze Geschichte hinter dem Foto erzählt die NDR Serie "Was war da los?"
@strandbeutel@NDR ich finds genial. Wenn man das foto ohne entsprechenden kontext sieht, könnte man meinen, menschen haben wirklich so gelebt. Im schutzanzug rasen mähen, ball spielen, schwimmen gehen, ... spannend
new theory: climate change is driven by Hollywood to normalize low visibility due to wildfire smoke, so they can turn down the render distance on CGI, making movies cheaper to produce
