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NostraDavid

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  • Why YAML sucks?

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  • YAML is fine if you use a subset (don't use the advanced features - not like you know those anyway) and use explicit strings (always add " to strings), otherwise things may be cast when you did not intend values to be cast.

    Example:

    country: NO (Norway) will be cast to country: False, because it'll cast no (regardless from casing) to false, and yes to true.

    country: "NO" should not be cast.

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  • I’ll just be accused of mansplaining

    Have you actually been accused, or are you afraid of being accused? Because in reality, most people don't give two shits about the idea of "mansplaining".

  • Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular?

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  • YAML is complex and has security concerns most people are not aware of.

    YAML is racist to Norwegians.

    If you have something like country: NO (NO = Norway), YAML will turn that into country: False. Why? Implicit casting. There are a bunch of truthy strings that'll be cast automagically.

  • Climate scientists flee Twitter [to Mastodon] as hostility surges

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  • It's a containment site; has been for a while.

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

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  • That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

    Remember, kids, "less" is for uncountable things, like liquids, whereas "fewer" is for countable things (like apples).

    It's one of many weird rules that English, as a language, has.

  • The results of the 2024 Stack Overflow developer survey

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  • I wish they had a section for query languages. Too many people only know about SQL, which being based on the Relational Model is rather powerful, except crappily implemented due to inconsistencies in the language. We need alternatives.

  • Opinions [Extra Fabulous Comics]

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  • This describes Christianity (to an extent). When I turned atheist (because I couldn't believe in God/Jesus anymore, not because I didn't want to) there is this very Church-shaped hole in your proverbial soul that needs time to close. It's a very sobering, yet lonely, way to live life, but due to the internet you don't find yourself lonely for too long, but I imagine it used to be a pretty terrifying way to live life pre-internet.

    I am lucky my Christian family still loves me, and I know they only proselytize to me (every now and then) because they care.

  • Nixpkgs repository exceeded 100 000 packages!

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  • Nix(OS) has been leaving Arch's AUR in the dust too! https://repology.org/repositories/graphs

    It's pretty wild how many packages are available. Somewhat curious if that includes variants (be it architecture, be it version) and how "few" they would have without those "duplicates" :p

  • Why is such a tunnel needed?

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  • If a duct that transfers water is an Aquaduct, then a duct that transfers nature is an Ecoduct