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ebuilds¹ use essentially that syntax, as does setuptools². Others support that too(nix, bitbake, etc), but I have bookmarks on the first two ;) ¹ https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-…

I'm near Cambridge(UK) and the number of days where it makes a difference is low here too. The bike lane experience largely sounds similar too :/ However, in the Before Times I'd keep …

I can't offer extra recommendations, but just wanted to offer full agreement. GLib is the awesome standard library I get to use everywhere thanks to gobject-introspection. From work projects in …

For those, like me, who get excited by this note that there are restrictions on the Unicode categories that are allowed, see the supported characters¹ and gory details². It is often enough to write m…

While also not quite what you asked for, Ted Chiang's short story "What's Expected of Us" deals with some of the emotional issues of determinism. Oh, and his "The Merchant and…

I love this puzzle collection. Especially bridges when I want a little brainteaser, and untangle which I find really relaxing for some utterly undefinable reason.

Looks like Firefox 3¹, all the way back in 2008! There is a good description of fixes and workarounds on LWN². ¹ http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/05/25/fsyncers-an…

I was half expecting to find some kind of rickroll-esque joke, but there is actually a lot of really interesting discussion tucked away in that search¹. I find the open and frank discussion of proble…

For those who are also curious¹, and the excellent linked topic². ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11 ² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512291 …

I was one of the naysayers, but I can't recall whether I thought a lack of interest or vandalism would kill it. I also recall feeling similar about OSM after having watched the founder(I think) …

If I'm honest my reason for submitting this was a hope that any traction it received would be met with other odd stories in the comments. So yeah, there is some market for your book suggestion…

The vim docs on sponsorship raise that exact issue(:h register{,-faq}). Being able to claim a donation is registration did make getting a donation through my employer easier for me. Specifically, thi…

Interesting. In the time between our posts I was thinking of other examples and wondering if perhaps the idea is simply a weak trope. My own ignorance hadn't allowed me to consider it was simpl…

And Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: > At the corner is the store known as Soul Scrolls. [...] Behind it are printout machines, row on row of them; [...] There are five different prayers: fo…

For use cases like that it is incredibly similar if you give the --verbose flag: $ units --verbose [header] You have: furlongs per fortnight You want: m/s furlongs p…

I recently pimped an Orwell biography in a different thread¹, but I'll do so again. Dorian Lynskey's The Ministry of Truth is a really well written and thoroughly researched treatise on Orw…

Full agreement about how to increase ridership. I've been lucky enough to work somewhere with good storage, power for charging¹, great security and that really changes the dynamic for cycling to…

One of my favourite things about working with Vala¹ was being able to use Genie² with the off-side rule syntax where it felt appropriate. Some chunks of code feel better to me when structured in ce…

> [...] Story of your life, which is an intensely interior novel. SoYL and Hell is the Absence of God both really broke me. Even after reading SoYL I genuinely wasn't prepared for how …

Some years ago, having not spoken any German since high school, I wanted a little refresher before starting a project with some German co-workers. I figured DW would offer some standard texts I could…

The other benefit to your full solution is that you won't get a 50 year sidebar in your GitHub contribution profile too. Until seeing your suggestion it hadn't occurred to me to use a fake u…

You can ensure the hashes are consistent by setting GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE in your initial commit alias. They still won't be consistent if you've enabled commit.gpgSign thou…