Just a basic programmer living in California
I thought so too, but my wife said, “Nope nope nope”
Probably not very similar, but Git Butler is very interesting. It adds its own layer of management so that you can have multiple branches “applied” to your working tree simultaneously. It’s helpful when you have multiple changes that should go into different branches, and some that shouldn’t be committed - it has a system of lanes that help keep track of all that. Or you can test how changes from two branches interact.
Last time I used it, maybe 6 months ago, it was rough around the edges so I didn’t stick with it. But they’ve done lots of work since then so I’m thinking of giving it another go. It is (last I checked) an all-in tool. When you’re using Butler on a project you probably won’t be able to use other git tools.
Yes; he said that the real clothes itched, and Garak said that’s the wool, you’ll get used to it.
I think it depends. Lua is great for scripting - like when X happens do Y. I agree that makes sense for a case like Home Assistant. Sometimes you really want the result to be a data structure, not an interactive program, in which case I think more sophisticated configuration (as opposed to scripting) languages might be better.
Yes, there’s a good example. Ansible would make more sense if its configuration language was Nix…
Oh, thanks for calling that out. I think I may have mixed up some of the frustrations I experienced at an old job.
I agree - YAML is not suitable for complex cases that people use it in, like Terraform and Home Assistant. My pet peeve is a YAML config in a situation that really calls for more abstraction, like functions and variables. I’d like to see more use of the class of configuration languages that support that stuff, like Dhall, Cue, and Nickel.
There is another gotcha which is that YAML has more room for ambiguity than, say, JSON. YAML has a lot of ways to say true
and false
, and it’s implicit quoting is a bit complex. So some values that you expect to be strings might be interpreted as something els.
NixOS and Home Manager config both ways to get rid of the same thing
I use metric temperature when I talk to my kids. Now they give me a hard time when I give them a Fahrenheit value! Keeps me honest I guess. I’ve also got my oldest using a 24 hour clock.
Stardate, 2024-08-30T06:34:17.993Z
Zed invented tree-sitter which is a great feature. But since tree-sitter is open source it’s also available in neovim and helix.
When you get stuck you explain your problem to the turkey, and that helps to understand the problem better.
After seeing this comment I had to check how Disney is involved if they don’t own the restaurant. The restaurant is in Disney World (specifically Disney Springs). https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jl0ekjr0go
IIUC that does put the restaurant in the special tax district that gives Disney the authority of a county government. But my very cursory search seems to indicate that restaurant safety oversight is managed at the state level.
It seems like only one side of the ancient rivalry is represented in the comments here. No worries, I’m right there with you.
What does “under pressure” mean? Does it mean shifting while stopped? I’m told some non-electronic belt drives can do that.
I read that electronic shifting can automatically downshift when you come to a stop which I find a little tempting. But not tempting enough at the price I’ve seen. There’s a spot on my regular route where my habit is to downshift 6 times as I come to a stop sign at the bottom of a hill. I do wonder what it would be like not to have to think about that so much.
It would make sense for the terminal to handle syntax highlighting since that would match how editors work. But the convention is that the shell handles highlighting, not the terminal. You can check which shell you are running with the command,
$ echo $SHELL
It’s done that way because the shell is a running program that is capable of telling the terminal which colors to show (by mixing color escape sequences into text). Compare that to code in an editor which is text, not a running program so the only option is for the editor to handle highlighting[1]. Editors need syntax files to configure highlighting for all the different programming languages, while terminals don’t need this because the shell tells them what colors to show.
[1] setting aside the “semantic highlighting” LSP capability - that was invented long after syntax highlighting conventions were established
Specifically programs.steam.enable = true
sets up the direct rendering and 32-bit libraries that you generally need.
I was confused at first about how to install wine runners in Lutris or in Bottles. It turns out you do it the same way as in any other distro, through the app.
Seems like a matter of preference, and I see the logic in it. I’ll mention that Nushell makes it easy to create custom shell functions that are invoked as sub-commands in this manner. https://www.nushell.sh/book/custom_commands.html#command-names
In the episode where he wore that outfit he held the Enterprise hostage, froze two crew members, and threatened to wipe out humanity.