Fell over this issue with #Mercurial today at work AGAIN. So annoying.
If you add program foo.rb to the default branch (say) by merging it from another branch -- then ´hg log foo.rb´ will not show the merge commit. Finding the record of when (or if!) it was merged is rather hard.
"What's the correct term for X? I'm going to have to talk about X with people, and they need to know what I mean.
…Oh. Wait. I'm going to have to talk about it with people. Never mind the correct term; what would they call it? And, throw in some swears, that usually helps."
I'll admit I find #LLMs fascinating, although not for the reason so many others seem to.
I'm not impressed by their answers -- you can quickly see how flaky they are. I'm impressed by their apparent ability to understand the question.
That word "apparent" is load-bearing. They can't, of course. Can't reason or understand. And yet this apparent ability is strong enough that you can instruct them in plain English to subvert their own design.
Out of curiosity I searched the "bot" hashtag. I can only see half a dozen. I suppose it's harder to make a genuinely useful bot than you might at first think.
@Tattooed_mummy@PleaseCaption@openbenches@RikerGoogling I love the Blakes 7 bot. And I follow a foxes one and a serval one, but I've seen all their (very cute) serval pics multiple times now. Might try RikerGoogling…
This is probably just me being very autistic. But if a word has three meanings, A, B, anl C; and C is a slur; and something in IT is named that word because A — why do people go after that thing saying it's a slur?
There are two other meanings right there. If you see the slur, isn't that on you, just a little bit?
@markusl I can't think of another meaning for "master" or "slave".
What you have there is a weaker case – those words are being used as a metaphor. While I don't think it's technically offensive to use it on not-people, I can certainly see why it would mako folks uncomfortable. And there are other metaphors! (Don't get me started on Git – feature branches are not slaves. It's a silly name.)
I'm afraid the context is private, but something you should know: all those cheap crime novels? The folks willing to do ridiculous, stupid, criminal things because they feel they're entitled to something someone else has right now? That shit happens. In the UK. Among "normal", affluent, middle-class people. I've personally rubbed up against it happening twice – although not to me directly, thankfully.
I've said this before, but I wish there was a way to "boost with added CW". Specifically I'd like to not be able to edit the CW text; It should be the hashtags in the OP, or failing that the first five words in it.
There's stuff on here I don't boost because I don't have the spoons tn work out how to do it while honouring my promise to CW doom, politics, etc.
Just flicking through a popular "make it for yourself" magazine via my library's app. Every single project uses a Raspberry Pi.
I suppose the age of amateur electronic engineers is gone. And the actions of rpi as a company have been questionable of late. Both of those things make me sad.
But beyond that – where the hell are folks getting these Pis from? They're always out of stock?
@fishidwardrobe you have to drive or fly to an Cambridge UK to get one. There are better options that are available though. Personally never buying another pi product ever again.
@ScaredyCat Same. It's a luxury good for me. I'm not forced to buy a SBC from an ethically questionable company.
But at the same time if all electronic projects are "program this SBC to…" — then that's computing. That's my day job :/
And I can't shake the suspicion that these magazines aren't actually interested in you building these projects. It's like buying a food magazine, and all the recipes contain Narwal horn.
Had a reminder yesterday of what more seriously effected #ActuallyAutistic folks have to deal with all the time. I'm currently in a minor burnout, so I'm worse than usual. Trying to take it as a useful lesson. It helps I was assured by other staff that the little hitler who bumped up against me – I'll spare you the details – was in the wrong.
But my first thought was a depressing one: folks behave like that because there are just too many people. And treating them as people uses up spoons?
I mean that's depressing because, having had him treat me the way he did, I don't really feel I have the spoons to treat him as a person, either: we have met the enemy and he is us?
Had a little experiment for a couple of months. Set my default posting to "unlisted".
It doesn't do what I thought it did – posts still turn up in my followers' timelines.
I don't think it does what it's supposed to do: if someone boosts my toot, everyone can see it (or if not: it lets people boost a toot when that does nothing. Either way, that doesn't work.)
I shall return to my belief that every one of these posting types is broken, except maybe – maybe – "global"