dave @ dave @feddit.uk

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I had a dive instructor who recommended snorting a bit of seawater if your nose was blocked and you couldn’t equalise. I’m not sure that’s good advice given the general contents of the sea, but it certainly worked :)

So I’m normally a command line fan and have used git there. But I’m also using sublimerge and honestly I find it fantastic for untangling a bunch of changes that need to be in several commits; being able to quickly scroll through all the changed files, expand & collapse the diffs, select files, hunks, and lines directly in the gui for staging, etc. I can’t see that being any faster / easier on the command line.

Poll reveals surprising number of editors don’t know how to use the word ‘amount’.

I don’t think so. For example from here:

I get this:

More like a UOML

ZX Spectrum. That is all.

User Gary Koepnick asked the AI which person spreads the most information on Twitter/X—and the service did not hesitate in pointing a finger at its creator.

(my emphasis) That’s a terrible typo…

What’s with those model numbers?

People on Reddit. We’re the people off Reddit :)

I’m not convinced a parent who didn’t notice the pram rolling towards a moving train, and who hadn’t strapped the child in, is going to notice an extra sign… Hopefully this lucky escape will be enough of a wake-up call :/.

It’s like the number of kids who get left in the back of cars (most dangerously in hot climates) led to dashboard warnings to check the rear seats. These work for a week or so, and then also just become wallpaper.

I hope they’ve been taken outside the environment now.

Was just going to submit a scrolling issue, but the GitHub link above isn’t working for me—the other links work fine but not that one :(.

Shame they don’t have anything to like, you know, build them a home out of.

I write minified JavaScript and the AI pretty-prints it with 8-space indentation. That’s well over 25% by weight.

It’s Canadian is what it is. Explains all.

Finally a gif with sound (in my head).

No, tiny bits of hidden software. It’s not a very efficient way of distributing code, but it was fun.

I’m a software engineer and I built a trebuchet during lockdown to launch Easter eggs at the neighbours’ gardens since we weren’t allowed to go see them.

I wandered in here from computer science, and I’m going back to solving parallel cache coherency for a bit of light relief.

And likely Crowdstrike will have their own insurance. At the end of the day, it’s just gamblers sitting at the table, moving the chips around.