The high volume of unoriginal Linux content is getting old, and that’s coming from somebody who uses Linux.
I can’t really complain about the content being a bit stale when it feels like the alternative is nothing. So many communities that had vibrant counterparts on Reddit struggle to get one post per week. If it’s ditto-memes on Lemmy, I’ll take it.
Imho the big challenge is just lack of throughput. I follow many communities, and it’s still not at the point where my front-page is consistently new content every day.
Feed the beast. Until then, quit whining about how repetitive the content is - there just isn’t enough of it yet.
And yet I have to enable SMB 1.x to get filesharing to talk between my various devices half the time.
No, I mean single-letter vars are standard in physics and math, but reusing vars is not acceptable. Obviously they’re not good practice except in the scenarios you describe, but mathies gonna math.
Maybe they had a background in low-level assembly code? If you’re writing assembly that’s kinda sorta how you’d handle registers.
Single letter variables, yes. Reusing them? No.
Exactly. If it’s a statically typed language and the function has a clear name? I know what type it is, I know what it’s for, I’m good.
There are far worse sins, like intermediate variables or worse, public class members named “obj” or “data”.
Imho the VS integration has always been good, it’s the web config that’s always been a trash fire, and that’s not new.
what’s wrong with nuget? I have to say I like the “I want latest” “no, all your dependencies are pinned you want to update latest you gotta decide to do it” workflow. I can think of some bad problems when you try to do fancy things with it but the basic case of “I just want to fetch my program’s dependencies” it’s fine.
Maybe I’m being unfair, but somehow when I read complaints like this about “purity” and “insufferable” and all that, I always assume it’s “they downvoted and insulted me when I made a bigoted joke about like transpeople or something”.
The reason I hate HTML: I’ve seen smart, reasonable people do this with IDs, and I’m not 100% sure they’re wrong.
By the end of the meeting the question will still not be answered
What, they sent you a screenshot, isn’t that good enough?
We must know: how many digits is the year? And when they’re displayed later, do they use slashes or hyphens? I want to really breathe in the awful.
Hyphens matter. Standards matter. ISO8601 4 lyfe.
Also, can somebody explain this to sysadmins when it comes to naming computers?
I mean programmers can have some weird naming conventions, but I’ve never met an adult professional programmer who named all his variables after planets or Harry Potter characters or just called everything stuff like ADMUTIL6 or PBLAB03T1 or PBPCD1602.
Hah, I (a Sr developer at the time) once built an entire mapping layer in our ETL system to deal with the fact that our product had long and expressive names for every data point but our scientists used statistical tools that had no autocomplete and choked on variable names longer than 32 chars so they named everything in like 8 chars of disemvoweled nonsense.
I do that occasionally but since the stale “Active” is the default it’s easy to forget.
Ooh, I just found you can change the default!
edit: isn’t this kind of a “you’re holding it wrong” problem? I mean, the default behaviour on Lemmy is awful, not just for this but also since iirc it didn’t default to showing my subscribed communities at the start either.