Coupling is a fucking gem. I’ve still never been able to bring myself to watch the final season that has no Geoff though.

ironically, I think whining about anticipated downvotes for expressing the most mainstream sentiment is worthy of downvotes

Git’s unconventional and decentralized design—nowadays ubiquitous and seemingly obvious—was revolutionary at the time,

Of course, there’s more innovation in git than being DVC but the decentralized nature wasn’t revolutionary.

It was funny when I started using bzr and then git, I kept being told “it’s a DVC, which is a different way to work that takes some getting used to”, and I was puzzled as it felt very familiar to me. Then I looked up DVCs and found out that Sun’s Teamware that I’d used for a decade was also a DVC. It was actually a return to familiar and comfortable workflows after a brief period using abominations like Perforce and Clearcase. I’m so glad they’ve been largely replaced. Git may not be perfect, but it’s better than those in any use cases I have had.

Meh, sure she was wrong on that, but that doesn’t justify taking her into custody and refusing to allow her to go home.

But then you have to eat Tillamook cheese… I has no idea cheese could be so bland before I moved to the NW USA. And orange, for some reason.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by and large

I thought it was stating that something is God’s will for your own purposes. AFAIK it’s not just using terms for God as a curse.

Not sure why they’d adjust. It’s mostly urban areas where top speed makes little difference to journey times. Journey times are generally decided by how long you spend waiting at every light and intersection.

When bzr, and then git, turned up and I started using them, I was told “this is DVC, which is a whole new model that takes getting used to”, so I was surprised it seemed normal and straightforward to me.

Then I found out that Sun’s Teamware, that I had been using for many years, was a DVC, hence it wasn’t some new model. I’d had a few intervening years on other abominable systems and it was a relief to get back to DVC.

Regarding the original post, are there really people around now who think that before git there was no version control? I’ve never worked without using version control, and I started in the 80s.

I’m particular our bodies are good at selecting the cells and organelles that are most damaged and decrepit to be broken down for material and fuel for the rest of the body. Makes sense they’d evolve to do that.

When you refeeding after a long fast, growth hormones are released that trigger replacement. So there’s seem to be some rejuvenation and other benefits.

It’s difficult to measure key parts of the process on a still living subject so we have to guess and extrapolate for humans. And other aspects aren’t well explained or understood. So there’s a lot of questionably reliable info and explanations, some of which are plausible. Like this!

Figuratively, Street kids do tend to be.

Also “the fucking old people caused this mess and are standing in the way of fixing it. We need them to die off so we can turn it around”

There has never been a young generation not saying this. Many of them have been correct too, but few have turned anything around when it’s their turn.

And it’s Wednesday, so it’s Bismuth Time

Chips every day!

It took me an embarrassing number of decades before I realized they were called (silicon) chips after American snack chips. I always thought it was a weird thing to call something that was plainly a carefully sliced thin sliver and not a piece chipped off anything.

As I did with potato chips too, but that was an established term in American English and it took me a very long time to realize one was named after the other.

I’ve used ThinkPads for ages and it’s very true they have become more and more ordinary as the years go by, but I recently got given a high spec Dell for a new job and it’s been very disappointing. In particular the keyboard is terrible to the point that on business trips I bring an external keyboard with me. I also sorely miss a trackpoint, but to many people that is not an issue.

I was also surprised that I miss the ThinkPad ability to open up 180°.

Last time I was in Manhattan, walking to Penn station, I passed an ambulance with lights and sirens trying to get through. 6 blocks later I looked back and saw I was now 2 blocks ahead of it.

Though if you’re good with using Ubuntu then new ThinkPads and Dells and some others generally work well as you get the enablement patches before they’ve rippled through to the mainline kennel. However you still often have a happier time waiting for others to iron out the kinks, not to mention better hardware prices by getting clear out deals for outgoing generations.

After years of ThinkPads I joined a company that gave me a Dell Inspiron and I am unimpressed in various minor ways. Crap keyboard is the big one.

Yes it’s trivial to host a repo, and then you have achieved approximately 2% of a forge.

Gnome’s was very inferior last I looked. No brightness factor and it was sunset or fixed time.