@fasterthanlime I wonder how many CLI programs misbehave in various ways if the terminal emulator reports a size of 0x0?

@fasterthanlime Neat!

@caoimhin Yeah, for sure. I've got into a habit now of just asking for a small failing example that I can run up-front to quickly weed out the rubbish.

@bitprophet I don't blame you! Have you been hit hard by it?

Thankfully most of the libraries I maintain are sufficiently niche and specialised that I've avoided a lot of it, but it looks like at least a few are breaching containment and getting bundled into larger and more generic bits of software

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I shall stop being an old man yelling at clouds now, apologies

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I have to wonder: do these people think they're being helpful?

Do they believe that they alone have such mastery over the machines that the rest of us need them to swoop down from a higher plane and bestow its heavenly insight upon us?

It's a bizarre sort of thing. They've […]

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I really enjoy the human element of open source: Introducing a new contributor to a system, reviewing code and giving feedback, diving deep into a usability problem a user tripped up on in order to find a solution. I will absolutely never criticise somebody for opening a PR - even if […]

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I honestly do not know how open source as we know it can survive this encroaching tide of rubbish. The power imbalance is just so enormous. Mere seconds required to generate bogus reports, half an hour of volunteer maintainer time required to debunk it. The social contract that FOSS […]

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The most frustrating part is that it was dressed up like an issue that seemed vaguely plausible, so I made the mistake of taking them at their word and assuming they'd done the work necessary to confirm the issue, only to need to spend ages questioning my own assumptions and […]

Incidentally, my son was born a few days ago. He is beautiful and perfect in every way, and I love him more than life itself. Today is a good day.

@mauve Yeah, certainly. Whatever floats your goat and so on. Some previous employers were much less understanding. I remember doctoring commit timestamps and so on to make it look like the work I did when my brain was engaged was more spread out over the working week. Thankfully, my current […]

@mauve Ideal, I hope that works out for you! I've heard good things about adhd meds in terms of stress reduction and so on.

Thankfully my life has changed quite a bit since I went in and I'm at the point where the symptoms are more useful to me than the drawbacks so I'm less bothered about […]

@mauve A thing I've found that works is to set myself alarms. When it goes off, do the thing. If not possible: reschedule the alarm for 1/2 the previous timeout. Turns complex task management into a simple rule with a guaranteed completion time that you can promise to others

@mauve Oh, completely! I went to the doctor about this going on 5 years ago. They told me to fill out a form. It's still in the bottom of a cupboard drawer somewhere, unfilled.

I really want to clean up this code, but I'm finding it quite difficult. It's like a knot that's been shaken around until it's reached its canonical cardinality. Nothing can be removed without breaking functionality, but what remains is only just in the realm of comprehension.

@mndflayr @JessTheUnstill Arguably the same is true elsewhere though, right? You know what a calorie is, you know what a joule is. But unless you're a physicist/brewer/nutritionist you probably can't go between them in your head.

@mndflayr @JessTheUnstill Not in the slightest. Totally disparate parts of the brain. The km/miles conversion is pretty common, but that's about it. If you asked me to guess how many pints a litre is, I'd probably be off by a factor of at least 0.3x. Very strange.

@mndflayr @JessTheUnstill Am British: most of these are correct, but should come with an additional "are you under the age of 35?" question. I have no idea what I weigh in imperial units!