Still fascinating how you can make up a pretty short random string, let's say 6 base64-encoded characters, put it in a search engine and you'll probably get 0 results. Meaning it never appeared somewhere on the public web, and likely never anywhere at all. (Add 4 chars to be really sure ;)
Example: y6H88kT
I know the math, and I also know that it will appear somewhere eventually in a b64-encoded representation of Pi. Still, fascinating.
But honestly, I didn't actually come up with it myself. I found the whole toot in π, starting around the 10⁴⁷⁴th decimal digit — had to read through the Finnish edition of Hamlet to get there 🤷
Why is it that python code always feels like it needs way less indentation and feels like the logic can be implemented much simpler. Or is it #django that makes this feel like it.
@wolframkriesing Compared to what? JS and Ruby support some expressions that are only possible as statements in Python, so something cannot be done inline/nested. And in general flatter is considered more pythonic, I guess.
(I’m a bit guilty of liking one-expression code with a more parentheses and nesting vs. temporary variables; but not everybody likes that style, which I respect.)
@wolframkriesing Yeah, I can see that. I don’t hate JS’ syntax, but it’s definitely noisier as well, even when not considering constructs that are not possible in Python:
@mattwilcox Contrast between what? Between tab and its background or surroundings? Or inner-tab contrast between tab background and label text?
If the latter, I'd have a counter-example in my Firefox where the active tab is highlighted by color, but the inner-tab contrast is less than on inactive tabs.
Is it just me or do @Codeberg have a lot of issues these days? I can't reach their website at the moment and this is far from the only time I can't reach codeberg.org.
You are about to sit down at a computer to work for about 4 hours, to accomplish something. You don't know exactly what you are about to do; you'll need to look at your to-do list for that. But you know you're going to spend about 4 hours doing it.
What is a noun or noun phrase that describes that 4-hour period of time?
@glyph as other said: session. Or work unit? But session, because you answer it in this first sentence of your question yourself: "…about to sit down…"
Session – "From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”)." (Wiktionary)
a #UX question. If a site has both a signed out home page, and a signed in one (for example a feed or dashboard), what should you see if you're signed in and try to view the home page?
@joelanman@benjamineskola what Ben says. You can also have both accessible (/home and /dashboard) and only redirect from / instead of replacing it. Depends.
🐍 aprxc — A #Python#CLI tool to approximate the number of distinct values in a file/iterable using the Chakraborty/Vinodchandran/Meel’s (‘coin flip’) #algorithm¹.
@veit Interesting. commit.cleanup = scissors is new to me. What's your exact use case for this? Is it so you're able to mention "#123" issue IDs in the beginning of a line?
@fihu Wenn du Stammkunde bist, wirst du bestimmt herzlich begrüßt: „Ah, mein Freund, wieder Fibonacci, wie üblich? So viel wie letztes Mal und vorletztes Mal zusammen? Mach’ ich Dir! Setz dich!“
I’ve had mixed feelings about manager readme. On one hand I do a verbal version in my first meeting with new collaborators to let them know I communicate directly but mean well.
OTOH, the power dynamic as a manager can read as a list of flaws your team has to put up with.
My tolerance/respect has decreased over the years towards people who intentionally ignore proper grammar and spelling. (Doesn't apply if you're actually dyslexic or similar, of course.)
If your desire as a sender is to be edgy, too cool to care, or just lazy, but it makes me, the recipient, invest more time and brain cycles into interpreting your communications, I'm pretty quick with an unfollow nowadays.
You know, a handy thing for those of us (cough) that can fall into using social media as an out-vent for irritation would be an ability to have a "notes" banner to remind ourselves of an intent not to do that. Like, here...
(Had an AI/LLM-generated 💩 website encounter the other day. Nothing new, probably, but still rare for me, and it’s been a bit funny:
I was looking for work stuff, webauth, tokens, something. The site already had a pretty SEO/baity domain, but the content, a FAQ-like, looked reasonable, at least quickly to parse for me when looking for my answer. Anyway, at one point, I don’t know which ambiguous term triggered it, the text suddenly started talking about washing machines and car motors?! 🤨)
