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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yup lol. Although just now I discovered that the Arch Wiki changed a section on Discord where you can disable the update check (before, it was written on how to spoof your version which I used a couple times)

New emojis don't roll out very frequently, from what I understand there's a whole process it goes through and then it sits in a queue for like 2 years. Sometimes I use the brand new ones, other times it's other people who use them and I want to see the emojis myself. Text ones are still just as valid though o(^-^)o

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Desktop: (Arch) about 2-3 times a month, but used to be 1-2 times a week when I wasn't working. I also usually update when Discord stops working. Sometimes asap when there's a security fix. Otherwise i update for cool new stuff or because it's been a while :P

Laptop: (Debian) 50/50 chance when Discover says there's updates available

Phone: (ios) usually when new emojis are available 💀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks :) I didn't see anyone mention the points made by the svelte guys https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892250 which is a shame since I thought they made better points than the dramatic "type gymnastics" argument haha (i am biased toward type-safety, as long as there is idiomatic, algebraic data types w/ pattern matching)

Overall it sounds like a major change with a few minor/moderate benefits, but it's their choice and time will tell if it was worth it :P

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I'm not really involved in javascript land so im parroting off of what i've heard for "why js over ts?"

  • it reduces file size since you no longer need to ship source maps
  • ctrl+clicking stuff will take you to the definition rather than an unhelpful type declaration
  • if you spot a bug in the library, you can edit the source directly than having to recompile/reimport
  • ts adds some unnecessary type "gymnastics" (can't speak for what this means), when all they really want is intellisense thru jsdoc

So mainly: devs who don't prefer strongly typed languages, and library devs who find typescript to be less transparent and more time consuming for new and old contributors than it's worth

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

huh, TIL brushing before is apparently better

I go 1, 3, 2 because it was easier for me to form the habit that way. I don't always have time for breakfast in the morning, so I anchor it to 1 instead of 2

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agreed. First LMG needs to clean house to make it a mentally safe work environment so there is never a repeat of Madison's case ... cause wtf. Second, an apology to Billet Labs ... cause wtf. Third, they need to slow down the pace of work so the employees can focus on quality and accuracy.

The rate at which they pump out content is, in my opinion, unsustainable for the employees and unsustainable for the semi-regular viewer as well

I've noticed my recommendations have largely stopped showing me LTT videos over the past several months, probably because youtube recognizes that im not watching a large % of their videos, so why would youtube recommend the next one? i feel like their pace is thinning out their semi-regular viewers and leaving a highly devout community. To me, the semi-regulars are what add balance to the community rather than it becoming an echo chamber.

I think by slowing down, LTT will be in a much healthier happier place in the long term, even if the numbers don't obviously show it. That said, idk if I can see their videos in the same light knowing what's happened behind the curtains. I think for rn, that might be it for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol, ok there might be a little more than what meets the eye, cuz when i type `&` (without amp;) it converted it to & !!

new challenge- try to get it to render a & instead of & inside of `` (or ``` ``` for bulk testing)

tried:

  • `&`
  • `&`
  • `&`
  • `&;`
  • `&<invisible character>`
  • `&divide;` still becomes `÷` weirdly enough

I kinda cheated cuz its not the same character... but I got it to show by using the japanese monospaced & (&)

test:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's not enough symbols on my keyboard, so let's invent a code so we can write other symbols

  1. lets say & means start of code
  2. and say ; means end of code
  3. Between the start and end is the code

Now let's make some real symbols

  • ¢ can be &cent;
  • © can be &copy;
  • ÷ can be &divide;

I want to tell other people how to use our new code, but if I tell them to "just write &divide;" it'll turn my message into "just write ÷" !! So how can we fix this?

What if we make & its own code?

  • &amp; —> &
  • &amp;divide; —> &divide; ???

Yes! That'll work :)

This is how &amp; came to be, and it's specifically used in HTML as a way to write those symbols above (and escape other a few other symbols for similar reasons we did with &amp;)

As for why & shows up as &amp;, there are 2 main places I can see this happening:

  1. The editor you use to write it automatically converts an & —> &amp;. But the user typed in &amp; (making it &amp;amp;). I think this is most likely. I'm guessing the title of posts automatically do the conversion, but the post body and comments do not because it uses a raw markdown editor
  2. In some contexts the & specifically doesn't get converted? like how you can write `&amp;` to get &amp; as opposed to seeing
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

hmm what if you use the escape code to write the escape code :P

&amp;

written as &amp;amp;

... written as &amp;amp;amp;

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mint is great, i'd say stick to it if it's working! :P

Unless you want to branch out, I don't think it's much of a failure to return back home to a "noob distro." To my eyes no such thing exists, they are just working operating systems and there's nothing noob or beginner about that

I do use Arch, but because I've had bad luck with (proprietary) OS's in general, so being able to choose exactly what to install and being able to fix it myself (if something ever happens) is something I value a lot. But I will say it takes a delicate type of nerd to handle that 🤣

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just throwing another suggestion to look for, maybe check your RAM usage? When I was first trying Linux i was using a persistent live iso, and it would randomly lock up like you describe. Just about the only functionality I had was to REISUB lol. It turned out my OOM services weren't closing programs until it was too late ... or maybe it was trying to put memory into swap space that didn't exist. Who knows. Try opening firefox a bunch of times and maybe see what happens

This type of thing shouldn't happen with a normal setup though.

I hope you can figure it out :)

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