@revk@toot.me.uk I believe one of the NTP RFCs does actually suggest that the local administrator of the NTP server should respond to timelord@ as an email alias
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It was great to be alive during that brief period of human history after the invention of the smartphone camera but before the invention of generative AI that can create images. It meant that, for a few years, I was able to trust that pictures I saw online were of something that actually happened.
I always used to be disappointed when I saw typos or spelling mistakes in online articles, but now I realise I have a small smile of "Ah, at least this shows it was actually written by a human" and often don't worry about them.
What times we live in...
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@TimWardCam@c.im @Thorium@social.linux.pizza @petrillic@hachyderm.io Oh great, now I am thinking about dBK - deciBel Kelvins
First morning of Perl Toolchain Summit is going well. What I thought was the coffee button on the machine at breakfast turned out to be hot chocolate. So now instead of waking me up after my nearly-midnight arrival, I'll be even more asleep before we start. #pts2026
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@IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net Yes, there are a few functions that can operate as lvalues. What's even cooler is that you can make your own :)
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@emocoder And it's much harder to do that second 90% if you don't have all the mental context of how you made the first 90%.
It's like playing a game and skipping through the first level straight to the second. Sure you'll start sooner but you won't arrive with all the lessons the first level would have taught you.
A #git workflow question.
I have a branch (lets call it "orange"), that adds a whole bunch of features on top of main. I regularly rebase this from main. I also have a bunch of points on that branch marked as other branches ("orange-phase1", "orange-phase2", etc...) that are convenient points for PRs - either currently open or intended in the future.
Is there a way I can automatically maintain these branches whenever I git rebase main?
Edit: Solved: see replies.
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@dabeaz@mastodon.social Yeah but I don't want to use cocaine because I'd just be funneling money to a few central druglord kingpins. And I'd be encouraging a society where everyone would be dependent on it and couldn't function without it any more.
Wait, are we still being literal or is this an analogy?
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Today I learned that ADI aren't selling to individuals any more and have instructed all their distributors not to either.. :( So... this kinda sucks. There's now a whole lot of parts for my boards I can no longer buy.
I wonder what the workarounds for this are now..
#electronics
Do you need to write four bytes of arbitrary content into the page cache of a file you don't own?
You can achieve it with this One Easy Trick. Sysadmins hate it.
I don't know why it's called "one-time pad" authentication. I must have used it ten times today at least...
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@tindie Thanks for your (personal) efforts in trying to keep us informed. Though, I fear your company's reputation will take quite a dent for this incident.
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@tommorris@mastodon.social Because if new software still worked on old computers, then nobody would need to buy new computers and so the people selling them would go out of business
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@orangeacme@fosstodon.org Whenever I get a low memory warning, I take a look around the web at RAM modules for sale. Then the prices scare me so much I close the entire browser process.
Which admittedly does solve the problem ;)
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@lproven It always annoys me that ASCII and thereafter Unicode always said they weren't going to add formatting mechanisms, as that was for other people. And so instead Markdown invented a way to be always ambiguously unsure about the meanings of regular ASCII punctuation to stand in for formatting requests.
Just think what we could have had instead...
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@bobdobberson@kolektiva.social @sabik@rants.au @Daojoan@mastodon.socialhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
Does Anyone Want Any Toast? | Red Dwarf | BBC
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I'm not trying to say either one is better than the other. Rather, the combination of having them both is great for the overall ecosystem and the users of those languages.
At each small step, Perl goes from a reasonable, practical place, to some new reasonable practical place. Each little step is in itself still useful, and incrementally adds value to something that is already useful.
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Raku, meanwhile, gets to start again and imagine a whole new world. It has a downside that it doesn't get to start off from something that already has practical utility, but by the same reasoning it isn't beholden to compatibility with what came before. It can break old patterns, old ideas, if they are found to be outdated.
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In the end, each half of the process finds its own way forward and yet the other half can benefit from it too. Each can (and should) lift its head from time to time and observe where the other half has got to, and think about whether that looks like a good direction to be going in.
This combination is a very powerful one. I think it should be used more across the technology design space.
This Week in #Perl Steering Council (#PSC)
* We remembered we still need to write the announcement for deprecating smartmatch
* We need to resync with Neil about how "SSL in Core" investigations are going
* Reviewed RFCs and found a shortlist of "soon to expire" ones. A nudge email will be sent to the RFC sponsors.
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@pierogiburo@tech.lgbt I like that it contains #Esperanto
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Mi ŝatas ke ĝi enhavas Esperanto
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@EndlessMason@hachyderm.io @linuxexpert@mastodon.social Let me guess: pseudohashes is one, and $[ is the other?
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@idiot@mastodonapp.uk Mouser let me add it to the basket and even pay at the checkout. They then cancelled it before shipping.
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@dakkar@s.thenautilus.net 99.9% uptime permits 43 minutes down per 30 days.
Even four-nines = 99.99% uptime allows 4 minutes and 20ish seconds, enough for one quick reboot in a month. Not quite enough time to listen to John Cage ;)
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@MarkHoltom When you say "per person", is that per person in the donating country, or the receiving one?
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@CountBinface@mastodon.world Number 20 is a surprisingly specific local issue that I don't express an opinion on. But all the others sound very sensible and something I could get behind.