sukhmel

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Well, as they say, "common sense is not very common", but thinking a bit before rushing in may always do good.

::: spoiler about the "quote" It actually should read

It is sometimes said, common sense is very rare

as written by Voltaire, it appears, but I didn't know that and only met derivatives of this quote.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's the number of the signal sent, 9 is for SIGKILL. You can send various signals with kill, and depending on how application was made it may react on all signals with dying, or meaningfully process most of them. Afaik, SIGKILL can't be processed by the app, and it always means just that: "die already".

Checked in Wikipedia, that's about right but there are more details I left out, mostly because didn't know about them, too: POSIX signals

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Augenmass? Keeping distance or something?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

No, it's when someone wanted to change docs to say "they" when referring to the user. I don't think it was really necessary, but refusal to do that looks like a statement I don't like.

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

First of all, thank you for a thoughtful response, I was too snarky, sorry about that.

TL;DR: guess I'm just upset that there is no objective way of measuring how much knowledge is required, and trying to read everything from sources list would take forever.

Yeah, the last point is sort of a strawman, although I meant it not to highlight that explanations should be given in terms that the reader is used to, but rather that the reader may have quite arbitrary amount of prior knowledge.

I agree that there probably should be some shared context, what bugs me is that people tend to vary a lot in what amount of context is considered to be required. And more than once have I met papers that require deciphering even if you have some context and kind of come from the field they are written for. I used to think that this is our of malice to make reproducing their work harder for others, but maybe it was just an assumption of much larger shared context.

Tables markdown work in some clients, afaik, but I don't remember which, and even if I saw it or imagined it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, this could've been possible with some clever fuckery in defining those emojis' unicode content, like with flags that are not a single point but three independent ones, allowing you to do this:

"🇧🇬".reverse() == "🇬🇧"
"🇬🇪".reverse() == "🇪🇬"
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Yet we live in a world where

"🇧🇬".reverse() == "🇬🇧" and "🇬🇪".reverse() == "🇪🇬"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Afaik, comes from Latin that had no "U" and "V" was both vowel and consonant until some point in time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

So, you've got no issues with "g" being sometimes kinda "h", "j" being same kind of "h" always, "h" not being a sound a all, "d" sounding like "th", and "z" sounding like "th" but another "th", not the one for "d". Oh, and "c" sounding either like "k" or like the latter "th"

I know some people that claim that everyone should use Latin alphabet, because you then know what things sound like, but that is the most bullshit take I ever heard. I guess that knowing how to write letters helps, but it looks like every other language pronounces those letters different, and English makes extra effort to pronounce different even the same things

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

So, in the end you just do assume everyone to know the "common sense" one-letter notation for everything. Well, not everything, but the essential ten thousands of entities for sure /s

This sounds like No true Scotsman fallacy to me

I find it a bit contradicting to the very point you made about defining variables. If anything, one might be some home-grown genius that has real business getting into details but only ever used Chinese characters as variables

Edit: forgot to set language

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good luck, from my experience with bazel it may go smooth if you have someone who can into bazel to help you, and you create the project from scratch to then maintain small changes. Then there was my attempt to migrate an existing Java project to bazel without external help that failed hard (maybe the situation improved from 2021).

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