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Ephera

@ Ephera @lemmy.ml

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  • TOML

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  • They're not supposed to contain data, but some parsers will allow you to access what's written into comments. And so, of course, someone made use of that and I had to extract what was encoded basically like that:

     xml
        
<!--
    Host: toaster,
    Location: moon,
-->
<data>Actual XML follows...</data>

    My best guess is that they added this data into comments rather than child nodes or attributes, because they were worried some of the programs using this XML would not be able to handle an extension of the format.

  • TOML

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  • I can kind of understand it after having to work with an XML file where users encoded data into comments for no good reason. But yeah, it does make JSON awkward for lots of potential use-cases.

  • TOML

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  • I don't feel like it will stray very far from what's dubbed "TOML 0.1" in the meme. Yes, it has inline tables and as of TOML 1.1, they're allowed to span multiple lines, so it's technically not anymore illegal to do what's in the meme. But all things considered, this is still a miniscule change compared to TOML 1.0.

  • Why do people go out of their way to dodge manhole covers while driving?

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  • I would try to avoid driving over them when safely possible, because they make an annoying noise, which I wanted to spare folks living nearby from. ¯(ツ)_/¯

  • TOML

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  • Well, Wikipedia does say:

    The [TOML] project standardizes the implementation of the ubiquitous INI file format (which it has largely supplanted[citation needed]), removing ambiguity from its interpretation.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOML

  • Different Grips

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  • (too hard for me)

  • A sneaky demonstration of the dangers of curl bash

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  • Most developers I’ve looked at would happily just paste the curl|bash thing into the terminal.

    I mean, I typically see it used for installing applications, and so long as TLS is used for the download, I'm still not aware of a good reason why you should check the Bash script in particular in that case, since the application itself could just as well be malware.

    Of course, it's better to check the Bash script than to not check it, but at that point we should also advise to download the source code for the application, review it and then compile it yourself.At some point, you just have to bite the bullet and I have not yet seen a good argument why the Bash script deserves special treatment here...

    Having said that, for cases where you're not installing an application, yeah, reviewing the script allows you to use it, without having to trust the source to the same degree as you do for installing an application.

  • Keyboard latency

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  • Yeah, so many people swear by mechanical keyboards with a huge amount of key travel, and I never see it discussed that the key travel itself is problematic.

  • Artist

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  • Yeah, always found that interesting, how a talent can play out in two ways:

    1. You get feedback from the outside that your talent is exceptional and you show it to everyone.
    2. Or you don't get that feedback, you kind of just assume that everyone is as good as you are, and that your talent is not worth showing. By not showing it, you continue to not get feedback on it and may not realize for quite some time.

  • TIL drinking, smoking, games, etc are all "social lubricants" for making conversations easier.

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  • Referring to alcohol or cannabis as social lubricants has been criticized because they have negative effects on empathy.

    I feel like weed does the opposite to that lol to me at least 🤷‍♀️

    Might be referring to drugs making it harder to follow an intelligent conversation. You might have stronger reactions to certain emotions, but proper empathy requires a deep understanding of another person's situation, which you won't gain while your mind is booked out...

  • Does anyone have a good suggestion for a markdown note organiser?

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  • Yet more suggestions which you didn't ask for:

    1. GitNote might be up your alley. Its UI is not as slick as QuillPad, nor does it have as many features, but it does faithfully keep the folder structure.Somewhat of a deal-breaker for me personally: It can't do reminders.
    2. Embrace the chaos. 😅 I have a little program for managing my notes on desktop and it just dumps them all in one folder, too. If I need to find something again, I've got a little text search, which is basically the equivalent of grep -iR. I just make sure to mention enough keywords in each note, so that I can find it again.Personally, I much prefer this workflow, because you can start typing (and hitting Ctrl+S) and then later ensure that it has all the right metadata, rather than having to select a folder upfront where it will be saved.

    I actually tried QuillPad not too long ago and couldn't make it work for me, but being able to save as normal files seems to be a recent addition, so maybe that's what I was missing.I'll probably try setting it up to work with my desktop note system then...

  • Does anyone have a good suggestion for a markdown note organiser?

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  • Well, Kate would be the obvious choice for KDE...

  • At least one of the 7 letters has still some relevance to my life.

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  • Morge continvoucly

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  • To be honest, what I'm most mad about isn't the typoes, it's that someone generated this image and figured, yeah alright, that will clear things up.

    On some level you want to believe that even if someone does not come up with a proper concept for a visualization, that they still check what the AI shat out, so that it's at the very least not conceptually wrong and not confusing.

    This image isn't just shitty, it's actively worse than having no visualization. They could've generated that, chuckled, and not used it. Just how do you blunder your perception check so badly that you decide to include it anyways?

  • Morge continvoucly

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  • Wow, it stole it badly enough that it might not count as copyright infringement in court, but it also stole it badly enough that it isn't useful at all.

  • Morge continvoucly

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  • I admire your ability to interpret anything into this fucking picture...

  • Never a dull moment (reprise)

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  • I use one of these:

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  • People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: What do you mean by "Cilantro tastes like soap"? In what way does anything taste like soap?

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  • Ah, no worries! Taste is hard to describe. 🫠

  • Just a negative vegan?

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  • The vegan philosophy isn't an all-or-nothing never wanting to cause any pain philosophy. It's a philosophy of reducing suffering as much as reasonably possible while being able to still live your own life.

    But any argument about plants feeling pain is completely sideways to that whole issue anyways, because farm animals eat more plants per calorie than when humans eat plants directly. Those farm animals need to use some of the plant calories for sustaining their own life, which will not make it into the meat, egg or milk. Even if you hate animals and love plants, you have to snack on plants to cause as little harm to plants as possible.