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Sometimes I ask questions here. When I do, I would ask you to please reply with your own thoughts, not an LLM's.
Tröts auf Deutsch derzeit unter @xahteiwi@fedifreu.de.
English native speakers, help me out please.
All of the following sound correct to me:
This does not, yet I see it in writing much more often than I used to:
Is the latter phrasing common? If so, in what context? Is there a dialect or sociolect that prefers this?
(Boosts for reach appreciated.)
I find it appalling that I'd never heard of this woman before today. What a life.
Kiddo just asked for a small candy bar, which he then proceeded to cut into 10 equal pieces.
Questioned on the purpose of this endeavour, he explained that he had 10 maths problems for homework, and was setting up a reward for solving each.
That's an... interesting README.
Email is the worst form of written communication except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
— Chinston Wurchill
Days since present Florian thanked past Florian for writing something up, on the remote off-chance that future Florian might need it someday: 0
Do you want to inform a group of people efficiently, and you're having trouble deciding how much detail to include?
Here's your simple ground rule to follow:
Include all the information that's available to you that you know to be accurate AND believe to be relevant to at least one of the recipients.
We believe that the San (Bushmen) of Southern Africa and Indigenous Australians are the world's oldest continuous civilisations, with varying estimates of their age — anywhere between 40,000 and 100,000 years.
But can somebody explain to me how we can know that they were continuous, considering that we inhabit a civilisation that's a puny 7,000 years old if we're being generous?
Question for those of you whose organisations are currently stuck on non-cloud-hosted Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence):
What's your plan between now and March 2029?
A — We'll migrate to Atlassian Cloud
B — We'll migrate to another cloud platform (preserving our data)
C — We'll migrate to another self-hosted platform (preserving our data)
D — We'll let our data in those silos die, and start over
If your answer is B or C, feel free to add a comment with details!
Happy One of The Greatest Concerts Of All Time Anniversary Day to all who celebrate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freddie_Mercury_Tribute_Concert
#DidYouKnow that Scapa Flow's name comes from the Old Norse for "long isthmus bay"? I didn't.
Do you know a note-taking app that
- is FOSS,
- ships with Ubuntu,
- runs with GNOME,
- uses Markdown,
- stores each note in a file, as opposed to chucking them in a database,
- integrates with LanguageTool for spelling and grammar checking,
- sorts notes chronologically by default,
- supports tagging and categorization?
If so, please drop a link below. Thank you!
This sounds crude if you don't know the reference, but if you do, you'll recognise this as the only sensible reply to the OP.
Thesis:
Requiring `Assisted-By:` lines in commit messages, or otherwise marking AI assistance in coding, is a double-edged sword:
- Good, because it increases transparency about use of agentic coding and the models being used.
- Bad, because it contributes to diffusion of responsibility.
Discuss.
Clever #OpenStack people, has one of you figured out a way to preserve the complete state of an instance when it's being shelved (`openstack server shelve`)?
And by "preserving the complete state", I mean behaving as it would on `openstack server suspend/resume`, i.e. coming back with the same process table and RAM.
What this would entail, I think, is some clever systemd/ACPI/suspend-to-disk setup injected via cloud-init.
Boosts for reach appreciated. Please, no LLM responses.
What an incredible life story and career.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sf6b
