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Ephera

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  • Marvel brainstorming

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  • It was certainly one of the examples on my mind when writing that, yeah. 😅

    I think, it was One Piece where I first noticed this, because I actually tried to watch that regularly on TV as a kid, but Dragonball perfected it with the whole "Power level over 9000" meme...

  • Marvel brainstorming

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  • Yeah, not to yuck anyone's yum, but this has been one of the reasons why I always thought fiction in general, but in particular superhero stories, anime etc., wasn't that interesting.

    Like, wow, you thought of some arbitrary description for how the villain is by far the strongest. Except for that other villain in the next episode, of course, who's even strongester. Oh, and did I mention that our hero is a total weenie, but somehow also stronger than these guys? Crazy, isn't it?

    I know, you're supposed to indulge these stories and not question them too much, but pattern-recognizing brain says no. 🫠

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  • I don't feel like these positions are at odds with one another, unless you become active in reducing the number of humans, of course.

    Like, you can uplift and protect people by stopping them from killing their environment, because you recognize that people are an invasive species that will do that.

  • GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team - Ian Duncan

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  • Yeah, I always plead for as much as possible to be automated offline. Ideally, I'd like the CI/CD job to trigger just one command, which is what you'd trigger offline as well.

    In practice, that doesn't always work out. Because the runners aren't insanely beefy, you need to split up your tasks into multiple jobs, so that they can be put onto multiple runners.And that means you need to trigger multiple partial commands and need additional logic in the CI/CD to download any previous artifacts and upload the results.It also means you can restart intermediate jobs.

    But yeah, I do often wonder whether that's really worth the added complexity...

  • mastodon catsalad

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  • Hmm, strange, it's working for me, whether I visit the lemmy.ml page or the lemmy.world page...

  • mastodon catsalad

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  • Hmm, it embeds the MP4 for me. Are you using the Lemmy webpage or some app?

  • mastodon catsalad

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  • They posted one in a reply:

  • How to write good documentation for your OSS project

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  • What I find tricky, is that you're always describing a work-in-progress. I also wanted it to be useful as soon as possible, so I started building the actual core logic first and documented that part of it.

    But to actually use it, you need several steps before, which need to be documented, but preferably automated or ideally eliminated.So, you kind of don't want to invest time documenting that, because you know it'll change a lot still.

    And just as well, any quirks you document, it's always like, okay, but what if I fixed this quirk instead?

    Obviously, one has to strike some kind of balance. Things will never be 100% perfect or final. And I am most definitely lying to myself, when I figure that fixing it won't take much longer than documenting it. But yeah, it's just a constant struggle to find that balance...

  • Only half of the calories produced on croplands are available as food for human consumption

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  • Perhaps also worth adding that here in Europe, lots of soy is now actually being grown regionally, as it can withstand the higher temperatures we now have from climate change...

  • Only half of the calories produced on croplands are available as food for human consumption

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  • Am vegan. Certainly don't eat nearly as much as @Carnelian@lemmy.world. But it is a pretty flexible food. Like, I can get soy yoghurt that tastes like the real deal. I can get TVP, which is chewy like a steak. I just had fucking noodles out of 85% soy + 15% chickpeas, and they actually tasted good. And of course, the all-time classic: Soy sauce.

    I don't stan for soy nearly as much as many others, because other legumes and nuts are awesome, too, but you just can't deny that soy covers a lot of bases quite well.

  • Martin Fowler: ORM Hate

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  • Yeah, this is one of those issues that I feel separates the seniors from the, uh, less experienced seniors. (Let's be real, as a junior, you know jackshit about this.)

    Knowing when to use an ORM, when to use SQL vs. NoSQL, all of that is stuff you basically only learn through experience. And experience means building multiple larger applications with different database technologies, bringing them into production and seeing them evolve over time.

    It takes multiple years to do that for one application, so you need a decade or more experience to be able to have somewhat of an opinion.And of course, it is all too easy to never explore outside of your pond, to always have similar problems to solve, where an SQL database does the job well enough, so a decade of experience is not a guarantee of anything either...

  • Natures wine bottle openers

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  • It amuses me that the joke wouldn't have really worked without that rather pronounced depiction of an ass.

  • Faithful

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  • Personally, I say "there is no god", because I also say "there is no pink space unicorn hiding behind Pluto". I don't know either for sure, but if a kid asks me and I start humming and hawing whether there might be pink space unicorns behind Pluto, then that sends entirely the wrong message.

    So, the difference between agnosticism and atheism is pure semantics to me. I do not claim to know that there is no god. But I assume there is no god until proven otherwise.

  • You're missing at least five

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  • It's key-based client authentication. Just open your SSH key's .pub file in Microsoft Publisher, then export to PDF.

  • What is something that desperately needs to be standardized?

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  • Instant messengers.

  • What is something that desperately needs to be standardized?

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  • Oh man, I use a shopping list app, which lets you sort the products into aisles, so that you can just walk through the store and complete the checklist top-to-bottom as you visit each aisle.

    This would be excellent for that.

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  • lisp is an old language,but not dead. What is it actively used for these days?

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  • I do agree, yeah, although I can certainly also understand LISP fans being annoyed that someone created a custom DSL for something that is adequately solved by the LISPs. I'm also certainly not enamored with the Nix syntax myself, but do find it easier to parse than a million parentheses.

    But yeah, ultimately the complexity of Nix and Guix isn't in the particular symbols you type out. The complexity comes from them being expression-based (which does make sense for the use-case, but isn't as familiar as e.g. imperative languages), as well as just having to learn tons of modules for the different things you want to configure...

  • lisp is an old language,but not dead. What is it actively used for these days?

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  • Don't think the original LISP is used much anymore, but there's various dialects like Scheme, Racket and Clojure.

    Some examples where it's used, off the top of my head:

    • Lilypond for when you need your sheet music to be turing-complete. Uses Scheme.
    • Emacs, for configuring the whole editor. (Has an own dialect, Elisp.)
    • GNU Guix, which uses Scheme for configuring the entire operating system.

    Obviously, you can also use them for general software development. A few years ago, I read of some project that used Clojure for a larger backend service, with the author gushing all over the place.Some folks are really passionate about the LISPs, but yeah, not terribly popular in the corporate world...