In other news today...
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
Poland 'invades' Czech Republic by accident
We (the Swiss) are notorious for accidentally invading our smaller neighbor; apparently we even lugged some artillery shells at them at some point:
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Lego's new Mindstorms robot kit could give your kids a summer project that's good for their brains
... the kids, yes. Yes, of course, Of course it's for the kids.
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@topspin mentioned in TFA, in fact. Well, the original:
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
What are they going to do? Change everyone's repositories?
Worse, they'd have to also change git itself, because that name is hardcoded as a default in a couple of places. And I seriously doubt Linus (or Junio) will buy that shit.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
They (Germany) have their own army.
No, not really. It's understaffed, underequipped and underfinanced.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
And I seriously doubt Linus (or Junio) will buy that shit.
I can already see his reply
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One of the app is good for the nope thread
Herpes Dating
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Next they're going to replace HEAD with an alternate to avoid referencing male anatomy?
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
that name is hardcoded as a default in a couple of places
What a shitty design. Oh, wait. It's git, that goes without saying
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
They (Germany) have their own army.
No, not really. It's understaffed, underequipped and underfinanced.
Germany Leopard2 250pcs
aardenuff
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Worse, they'd have to also change git itself, because that name is hardcoded as a default in a couple of places.
Changing the name of the default branch is pretty easy, git's able to do that with minimum fuss.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Worse, they'd have to also change git itself, because that name is hardcoded as a default in a couple of places.
Changing the name of the default branch is pretty easy, git's able to do that with minimum fuss.
Yeah, this is a non story that's got a bunch of people's knickers in a twist because... There's not enough drama about at the moment?
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@Jaloopa The expensive part would be rewriting the git history of existing repositories to purge the old mentions of
master
. They won't be doing that.
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Worse, they'd have to also change git itself, because that name is hardcoded as a default in a couple of places.
Changing the name of the default branch is pretty easy, git's able to do that with minimum fuss.
Yeah, this is a non story that's got a bunch of people's knickers in a twist because... There's not enough drama about at the moment?
To be honest, the whole "reasoning" is definitely WTF, because this is NOT case of master/slave metaphor - there is no "slave" anywhere! Actually, the "master" here is not the "master" from "master/slave", it's the "master" from "master/joyrneyman/apprentice" AFAIK. Maybe is English language that does not distinguish these two words (like many European languages do). Bonus points for "master" being used in 19th century as a title for small boys (as you can see in Charles Dickens).
Another is the whole concept of using silly human metaphor in a first place. Big corporations like IBM realized how confusing that is that way back in 50s and 60s, when they started to expand around the world.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Next they're going to replace HEAD with an alternate to avoid referencing male anatomy?
Women don't have heads. You've heard it here first!
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
it's the "master" from "master/joyrneyman/apprentice" AFAIK
More like the master record that others are pressed from I think.
But given that master/slave is such a well known metaphor in computing there's obviously room for confusion and nastiness. If they're just changing the default for new repos it's not going to break something so it's about basically no downside and potentially a minor improvement, so not particularly important and the people getting angry about it are just twats
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
it's the "master" from "master/joyrneyman/apprentice" AFAIK
More like the master record that others are pressed from I think.
Yes, but that is already a metaphor. From what I've read, it is derived from the crafting guild system where journeymen were allowed only to copy design created by their (guild-approved) master.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Next they're going to replace HEAD with an alternate to avoid referencing male anatomy?
Women don't have heads. You've heard it here first!
Next up: eradicating Bell for the same reason!
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Next they're going to replace HEAD with an alternate to avoid referencing male anatomy?
Women don't have heads. You've heard it here first!
Does this imply anything about the unix
head
andtail
commands?
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In Other News, Swiss postal and IT systems overloaded due to people sending in claims:
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Come on people, get your shipping labels right!
"If it is yours please contact the Harris County Sheriff's Office to claim it," the sheriff wrote in an Instagram post.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
In Other News, Swiss postal and IT systems overloaded due to people sending in claims:
Officials said the gold was found in October 2019
That really just brings up more questions... You'd think they would have realized they lost that much...
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
In Other News, Swiss postal and IT systems overloaded due to people sending in claims:
Officials said the gold was found in October 2019
That really just brings up more questions... You'd think they would have realized they lost that much...
I dunno. Have you seen prices in Switzerland?
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Next they're going to replace HEAD with an alternate to avoid referencing male anatomy?
Women don't have heads. You've heard it here first!
Does this imply anything about the unix
head
andtail
commands?Wait until ponies get involved. Then we have fun words that become racist like "feathered", "mud trotter" and "horny". And don't forget the new euphemisms like "buck" and "flank", which also loosely correlate to things like "horseapples".
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Worse, they'd have to also change git itself, because that name is hardcoded as a default in a couple of places.
Changing the name of the default branch is pretty easy, git's able to do that with minimum fuss.
Well, all those places where there isn't any default branch it's fairly easy, because there, well, isn't a default branch in the first place.
I think the only place left where it really is a default is when initializing a new repository. And, well, it's trivial to change it as the next step, but nobody does, because and consistency.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
In Other News, Swiss postal and IT systems overloaded due to people sending in claims:
What's that, something like 3kg of metal in a compact shape?
Seems pretty easy to misplace... Well... If you're an idiot or obscenely wealthy.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
What's that, something like 3kg of metal in a compact shape?
Seems pretty easy to misplace... Well... If you're an idiot or obscenely wealthy.I could maybe see misplacing it. But not realizing you'd misplaced it...
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
What's that, something like 3kg of metal in a compact shape?
Seems pretty easy to misplace... Well... If you're an idiot or obscenely wealthy.I could maybe see misplacing it. But not realizing you'd misplaced it...
Yeah, around these parts, when things like that happens organized crime is usually suspected. They usually don't want to fess up to owning the money, even less explaining where it comes from.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Well, all those places where there isn't any default branch it's fairly easy, because there, well, isn't a default branch in the first place.
It's actually not that difficult in repositories with a default branch to rename it. There's a few places where a little care is needed (such as branch protection rules and so on) but it's really not too hard.
A bit more work is needed by anyone doing complex CI integration, but that's really not too big a deal.
Rewriting history to remove mentions of the branch name in the log would be a lot more work. Git does support such a level of surgery, and I've even had cause to use it very rarely… but it's very expensive and slow on anything but a trivially small repo so Github won't bother because doing otherwise would mean they'd be eating a ton of costs to do a task that nobody's really bothered about that could potentially go catastrophically wrong (because edits by regexp-replace are always potentially tricky if the input isn't controlled). And that wouldn't work at all for repositories signed commits where they aren't the guarantor themselves.
I think the only place left where it really is a default is when initializing a new repository. And, well, it's trivial to change it as the next step, but nobody does, because and consistency.
That's why Github will probably do quite well with this change.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
There's a few places where a little care is needed (such as branch protection rules and so on
Git does not have any branch protection rules. Any post-update¹ hook that might implement those is not part of git.
@dkf said in In other news today...:
That's why Github will probably do quite well with this change.
That's the question. If people create repository with default content in github, they have control over it. If people create repository locally and the upload it (like I always did), they don't.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Git does not have any branch protection rules.
Technically no, but it provides a place where you can hook your own implementations, and Github provides a severely dumbed down version of them (almost to the point of sanity) with a user interface.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Github provides
… and Gitlab, and Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps, and Gitea, and many others. Independently¹. If Github changes it, they will be the s.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile, in a village in Wales there are goats on the roads:
Now there are cows near the House:
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Strangely enough there's a second case of mixed shipping labels:
Apparently this package was supposed to be shipped to a facility where medicines are disposed of, instead they must have got a parcel with the ink which was ordered from Amazon.
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@boomzilla Interesting that it can efficiently carry pollen to the flowers, but how are they going to collect the pollen in the first place?
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You might note that I placed this article there as well. Was just going to place it there, but decided that it was also interesting news for people who don't frequent the garage.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
You might note that I placed this article there as well.
That is unlikely, since I haven't visited that thread since @Fox was still raging in it. I think I set it to ignore around the 1000-post mark; that was years ago. Now I just joke about it, never in it.
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Yeah, that thread in particular I think is avoided by many, which is why i posted it here as well. I should have been thinking and linked to the crosspost though, so I will do better next time.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I should have been thinking
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I will believe it when I see it:
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Potholes in Québec
Article (in French)
https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2020/06/18/son-auto-disparait-dans-un-nid-de-poule-geant