Oh, cool. I didn’t know about this one.

Trying Zed now on the eternal quest of eventually replacing emacs…

Good luck, the instances can’t just be started in any random order and at their current version their dependency graph is cyclical.

C has undefined behavior for that.

The “active” status.

Any project with it set is active, any project with it not set isn’t. And you set them all to active when you create the toggle.

If the users complain, you make them tell you an specific rule that can you can use to auto-change a subset of the projects in a cron job. Expecting anything like this to have a complete objective definition is delusional.

Well, some languages are higher level than others. Pure microcode expanded binary is actually a rarity.

The fact that he claims it’s in C++ 29, while we are in 2024 is a good hint.

Or maybe he is a time traveler. Quick, go ask the next lottery numbers!

Yeah… But it’s usually a good practice to put a struct somewhere between your 30 levels of ownership.

Exceptions exist, but they are not very common. Also, in C++, operators overloading may help you if you keep needing to write code like this.

Your DE may be the one not relaying the sigterm, or it may be losing the PID because of the double launching.

Does the LSB have something to call on termination? Or you may want to call an executable there instead of a script.

It’s not broken. You just have to get a cron that supports it. Debian has at least one that does, but it’s not the default one.

Though, not every cron supports that.

Also, if you are packaging software, you have to do it the right way. But if not, it’s often easier to go and install an init script.

They are valid unicode points that your font doesn’t know about.

… or at least they represent that, but I think there’s a character that looks like one too.

intermediary language between regex and actual programming

It’s called Haskell.

Validate your backups, do not let them validate you!

There are both kinds of full stack developers: the frontend dev that doesn’t understand the backend enough to know they suck at it, and the backend dev that doesn’t understand the frontend enough to know they suck at it.

A has been consistently improving it since before the change, so it’s only possible that they are managing to the metric if they had earlier access to it.

B may be doing that, but the graph doesn’t actually measure how many bugs you closed. Those ones seem to have decided to manage by the metric, removing the variance but targeting a high, comfortable level.

Agreed on C, they did a large “hey, we will be measured by that now” one time effort and then forgot about the metric.

The change didn’t improve anybody’s performance.

No, it’s right.

Business intelligence is inconsiderate and must be stopped!

All of that happens the exact opposite way when you compare Writer with Word.

And Presenter compared to Power Point has the clear answer that you shouldn’t use either.

Either way, Excel is the one good piece of software in MS Office. Has always been, and I don’t expect it to change in the future. (Except maybe if they decide to make Excel bad.) But that’s only as long as it always corrupting anything mildly complex doesn’t bother you.

As long as it’s not a water poodle…

I fully expect people to keep using a broken Xorg, not move into wayland, and not fork and keep it updated.

But the devs are free to do whatever they want. No opinions there. I wouldn’t want to maintain Xorg either.

Doesn’t wifi have its own retrial protocol? It’s been a long time since I’ve read the standard, but I think it’s almost lossless from the POV of TCP.