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Yeah, the intro is a bit of a stretch, and the article would be better off without it. They should have included a video instead. The rest of the text is surprisingly informative, though.

Why would there have to be one there?

Isn’t a/b/c == a/(b*c), also in a pedantic mathematical sense? I at least would consider a/b/c to be common (enough) and understandable.

> A persistently visible ad for a paid service you don't want Are you referring to the spiral-like “AI Assistant” icon in the right tray? Because that you can easily hide. (Right click → “Hide…

The code may tell you what it does, but that doesn’t necessarily tell you why it’s there. Especially for non-obvious pieces of code I have to deal with, I certainly prefer to understand the origin…

Question: is tea only targeted at the subset of open-source projects that are available through package managers? (I.e., libraries mostly.) Like npm packages, Rust crates, Debian packages, etc.?

> I never understood why a "stylistic" choice requires separate characters. I don’t think it’s a purely stylistic choice, there is actually semantics to it: “ opening quotation mark…

To be fair, except for vue.global.min.js, all the JS files which OP pulls from third-party hosts are integrity-checked. So unless clients use very outdated browsers that don’t support the `integrity` …

That could also be an option, although an additional manual step might be slightly less convenient, especially in case you want to “debug” the command (i.e., regenerate multiple times with varying par…

Great suggestions, I’d agree with all points! > 6. Change "We do not store your credentials. Tasks are done in your browser" to "No data is saved. View source on GitHub." Assumi…

I haven’t looked into ZFS yet, but thanks to your comment, it’s now on my todo list. One idea behind my implementation was to have something that’s more agnostic of specific file systems. But I guess …

I suppose you could make a similar thing happen based on git, or maybe even a combination of `find` and `diff`. It’s certainly an interesting debate whether to use a general-purpose approach vs creati…

Yeah, fair point – I couldn’t think of a better word, that’s why I wrapped it in quotes. I’ve tried to simplified the phrasing: > For some extra safety margin to avoid collisions, by the way, `snap…

Oh thanks, that’s a good point. I actually haven’t considered hardlinks at all yet. I should probably look into that at some point → https://github.com/jotaen/snapdiff/issues…

I get the suspicious sentiment, but I mentioned it for other reasons in the title. Apart from solving a personal need, this project is largely about tinkering with Rust and performance optimisations. …

Thanks for posting that link, that sheds a lot of light on this topic. I’m also in the EU, and the button was switched off for me too.

I came up with a file format for time-tracking, which lets me store the data in plain-text files in a human-friendly notation. I also built a corresponding CLI tool for evaluating the files on the ter…

The visual language looks slick to me, and it appears that a lot of thought went into the redesign. A few critical remarks (intended as constructive feedback/thoughts): - I second the point from …

For reference, this is a simulation of what will happen in ~2 hours from now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tac59aq8jsQ (An asteroid will occult one of the brightest stars of our ni…

To me, they have slightly different semantics: I perceive the checkbox as “passive” form element (i.e., only to have an effect on form submission), whereas the toggle switch I understand as instant ac…

The article says that one Asian longhorned tick “ can lay up to 2,000 eggs without needing to mate” (emphasis mine). This doesn’t imply that this tick breed generally has an effective reproduction ra…

> something's not adding up here One factor might be that reproduction rate ­≠ survival rate, i.e., not all of the ticks born will reproduce. For example, it usually takes several growth stage…

Is that personal data of real applicants captured in that video? I’m just wondering, as the recorded spreadsheets contain full names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, etc.

It appears they used original historic images from 1930, and overlayed them with a recent picture taken from (roughly) the same position and with the same angle as the original one. So it’s basically …

> It's hard to appreciate the scale of these places unless you have visited them. I think what’s especially hard to grasp from pictures is not just the areal loss, but the massive amount of vo…