nindokag
Daughter has reached the age of asking "why?" to everything.
"hold on to that cup with both hands"
"why?"
"i don't want you to drop it"
"why?"
"It's made of glass, and if you drop a glass thing it can break"
"why?"
"because glass is brittle"
"why?"
"because supercooling molten silicon dioxide makes an amorphous solid which is weaker than the crystalline form"
"why?"
"the crystalline form has a tetrahedral lattice of ionic bonds"
"why?"
"because one silicon atom can bind with four oxygen"
"why?"
Jamey Sharp
@tindall @ky0ko It bothers me that cargo won't even install static files and help you find the path to them at runtime, like at least the Python and Haskell build tools do. And if Haskell has a feature that's practical for real-world deployment, it's pretty sad if any other language doesn't 😝
On the other hand, last I heard cargo and meson were kind of fighting over who should be in charge if you want to use them together, leaving nobody happy. But that was like a year ago and these things change fast, so, who knows
Jamey Sharp
@zig @tindall Ninja is absolutely usable directly if you want to. It's just that in non-trivial projects there are usually steps which ought to be handled by a generator. Although you can push that boundary a fair bit if you're willing to accept, for example, having the same pkg-config command run for every single invocation of gcc. Which I've done, in a project with a dozen source files.
None of these tools help with packaging---only portability, which makes packaging possible. And it's true that ninja does not help you with portability. If you're careful and your project isn't complicated then you may be able to do it, but it's still best to use a generator.
Jamey Sharp
@tindall I wouldn't pick autotools for any new projects, and I'm not real fond of cmake or meson either. But a lot of hand-written makefiles are very bad in ways that these tools make it easy to avoid. For example, don't assume that programs or libraries are installed at particular paths, because they're guaranteed to be somewhere else on other Linux distros, let alone other operating systems.
The other advantage is that cmake and meson can both generate ninja build scripts instead of makefiles. Make does a ton of extra work that nobody needs any more but still has to be done just in case you're building a project from RCS or SCCS. Ninja doesn't do anything that you didn't explicitly tell it to, and also runs in parallel by default so devs routinely test that path, which is often broken in makefiles. For both of those reasons, ninja build scripts can complete much faster than makefiles in many cases.
Hand-writing a Ninja build script isn't terrible though, for small projects.
Audrey E.
So few tech workers have had visible unionization efforts, and I’m glad to see this reporting https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/technology/tech-companies-union-organizing.html
Jamey Sharp
hadn't blocked anybody for a while, but I found a volunteer :blobcat:
emsenn of Teraum
so many people: "Wow I love the font on your website!"
me: "that's your system's configured font. I'm glad you like it!"
Souvlaki Space Station
"Ursula K. Penguin" would be an okay name for a Linux distro
Sid
"how are you so upset about the treatment of migrants when we have homeless American citizens"
"well, both are a problem, but ok. Let's give them all homes."
"no, I meant—"
"take investment properties and give them to the homeless"
"uh (changes subject)"
Ya favorite tho(ugh)t
I mean... I just think it's funny how white folks are always like GET OVER IT, IT'S THE INTERNET when we get slurs, insults and abuse thrown at us, but will start a Trent Lott like CRUSADE when one suggests they alter their language and pro-noun usage a bit. LOL, they legit act like it's the end of the world.
And don't even get me started on how white people melthdown when they experience 1/100th of the abuse marginalized people endure everyday.
It's not funny... but that's why it's funny.
Old Man of the Hudson
Don't cross a picket line
Michael W (Warren) Lucas
If your Code of Conduct team is overwhelmingly straight white guys guided by straight white guys, your CoC is probably worthless.
You need a variety of threatened minorities on your CoC team, and you need to listen to them.
D Dino
it feels very weird that companies can settle union-busting claims like this without a union forming. like, you fire some people, you pay a fine that says “go away now”, and business goes on like usual. what are the next unionists supposed to expect? that they’ll be fired too, sans consequence? lmao i guess so!
D Dino
feels weird that union busting is illegal and yet so normal that you can write an article about all the illegal union busting going on in an industry and still conclude “i guess nobody wants to unionize!”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/technology/tech-companies-union-organizing.html
Teryl's Tales of Whim~
"Do you ever find yourself plagued with a face and a body that is considered attractive by current standards?"
"No, hah, the opposite in fact."
"Then what would you give to have such features?"
"Ah geez if it were financially viable I'd've made changes by now."
"What if I told you it wouldn't cost you a penny. All I ask for is a portion of your intelligence."
"Look I can barely function as is, I think I'd rather be lumpy, thanks."
Efi (nap pet) 🐱💤
imagine if foss meant Free Of Side-effects Software lmao
Chris
Federico Mena Quintero
Please help me build a list of words in non-English languages that are insulting as "gimp" is to mean a disabled person.
(I want to write something along the lines of, "you wouldn't call your software 'tullido' in Spanish)
Jamey Sharp
@jussi Huh, what does that do?
Jamey Sharp
@kity haha, yeah... or if something fails to build on hydra, and you try to install it, it'll try to build locally and probably fail there too... which I discovered with a Python package (scrapy) that has a giant test suite that was failing late 😢
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