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I hate systemd, i hate it. Which idiot wrote that piece of crap? And it isn't that easy to replace it when it is so embedded in the distro.
Its commands can't even output text normally, which should the absolute basic functionality of every program. And it does things automatically i didn't tell it to do, for example setting the system time to some random date instead of leaving it at 1970-01-01. -
Can someone brag about using Arch when he spends more time using a live Ubuntu system to fix his Arch installation than actually using Arch?
Asking for a friend.8 -
Why are there people that still don't use the metric system? It is so stupid and cost so much.
We formally adopted the metric system about 150 years ago. Why are systems that where developed 100 years later still based on stupid units that are based human body parts that differ between each person?7 -
I love my Model M keyboard.
What kind of switches has your main keyboard which you use for coding? (Cherry MX <color>/ Rubberdome/Model M, ...)23 -
I enjoy being an embedded software engineer that is allowed to use C for most projects and doesn't have to program JavaScript or PHP nor has to use dozens of foreign libraries.12
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Why do you need 100, 500, 1000, 2000 points to unlock some avatar features? Wouldn't 128, 512, 1024 and 2048 be more appropriate for a software community?4
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Trying to get some information about a product:
1. Opening the manufacturers webpage, gets a crawler protection page presented, 30 kB
2. The actual website opens, 600 kB + an endless amount of javaScript.
3. Tries to download a PDF, a extra download page is opened, another 600 kB and even more JS.
4 Download the Download a PDF, 3 MB
5. Read the information in that PDF which would fit into 8 kB.2 -
f()
{
cd "$1"
git stash ; git stash drop
while git checkout HEAD^; do : ; done
for b in $(git branch | tail -n +2)
do git branch -D "$b"; git checkout -b "$b"; git push -f; done
for t in $(git tag); do git tag -f "$t"; done
git push --tags -f
}
for p in $(find "$HOME" -type d -name .git ) ; do f "$p"/.. & done10 -
Why did it take years before someone told me to add this to your bash script to see the line on which a command failed?
errorOnLine() { echo "Line $1 had an error" ; exit 1 ; }
trap 'errorOnLine $LINENO' ERR7 -
We have 4k Monitors and SSDs with more than 120 GB, why there are still new projects that use a formatting style that doesn't have a clear relation of the opening { and corresponding closing }. i.e. put them either on the same line or column?
Please don't write code where the imaginary line between the { and } goes diagonally over other parts of the code. It makes it unreadable and my brain hurts from looking at it. Its better to have readable code and "waste" some lines and bytes for code that is easier to read.10 -
Why does every Monitor with a high resolution have such a wide format, like 16:9 or worse? As a developer i need more vertical than horizontal space. 9:16 is ok for coding but too small for anything else. I want a Monitor which is 2:3, 3:4 (rotated 3:2 or 4:3) or 1:1 and has at least 1920x2560. The better the resolution the more lines can i see at once. I can't make the text smaller than 10 pixel per line.
Do you guys have the same problem?14 -
It turns out that using bash without "set -u" (without it, bash replaces every unset variable with an empty string, without error or warning), isn't such a great idea when you change your script later and you forgot to delete the following line:
rm -rf $OBJ_PATH/*12 -
No devRant, i do not want to install your App. Let me use your website on my mobile browser without desktop mode and without the need to login.5