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No, it was fixed initially in 7.0, and the patch then applied to the 6.18 and 6.19 branches, fixing the existing bug in versions 6.18.22 and 6.19.12. The bug exists in 6.19.0 to 6.19.11, but not as a regression - those were all released before the bug was fixed.

I've probably just learned to ignore a lot of that. Stash conflicts are annoying. And I have a long list of stashed changes that I should just purge at this point.

All the discussion here has me very interested to look at jj, though. Although most of my git interaction these days is through magit, and changing that will probably be hard.

I turn off autoplay globally because it's been abused for so long by some news sites, for example, that autoplay a video and then pin it to follow you as you scroll the article.

I find any autoplay, even muted or no audio, to be more of a distraction then helpful in general.

That said, I'm happy to make exceptions for well designed and intentioned sites, and so have allowed it on yours.

I had been using the history append for years before finding atuin a couple years ago. I still occassionally lost history through some combination of events I was never able to understand.

I've been using atuin happily for a few years now and it blows bash history out of the water.

Gradle still sucks 3 years ago

In other systems I could say “<tool name> create branch x from parent y”.

While the default of `git branch` is to branch from the commit you have checked out, the command does take an optional argument for the start point of the new branch:

  git branch <new-branch> [<start-point>]
or, to create and check out in one go
  git switch -c <new-branch> [<start-point>]

Are the ports in pairs at each location? Then it sounds like they did a Very Bad Thing and ran one cable per pair of ports; 100Mbps uses two pairs, so why use two cables when one cable has four pairs, right? :( I've seen that a lot in much older installations, but I'd expect better from 2015 construction.

I'm busy retrofitting Ethernet in my house by pulling cat6 through the walls and pulling out the old cat3 phone cabling. It's much harder work doing two cables (not least because none of the phone cables were in conduit, so it just starts off harder already) for each pair of ports, but it's very much worth the effort.

Firefox 91 5 years ago

FF supports containers used by that extension natively; I think the extension basically adds some UI around it.

I had a netburst P4 for a while.

MATLAB simulations were comically faster on my lower clocked Pentium M laptop.

I think misrepresenting data that explicitly states it can not be used to make this conclusion, to come to this conclusion is not a fair point and works to propagate vaccine conspiracy theories. See my other reponse with details from VAERS about not using this data to directly determine vaccine cause of adverse effects.

That data explicitly says it is not to be used directly for causal analysis of health effects after vaccination.

What is VEARS? [0][1]

VAERS is not designed to determine if a vaccine caused a health problem

Limitations of VAERS: [2]

* It is generally not possible to find out from VAERS data if a vaccine caused the adverse event

Are all adverse events reported to VAERS caused by vaccines? [2]

No. Some adverse events might be caused by vaccination and others might be coincidental and not related to vaccination. Just because an adverse event happened after a person received a vaccine does not mean the vaccine caused the adverse event.

VAERS accepts reports of adverse events following vaccination without judging the cause or seriousness of the event. VAERS is not designed to determine if a vaccine caused an adverse event, but it is good at detecting unusual or unexpected patterns of reporting that might indicate possible safety problems that need a closer look.

[0] https://www.openvaers.com/f-a-q

[1] https://vaers.hhs.gov/about.html

[2] https://vaers.hhs.gov/faq.html

Also, if I understand it correctly, there are a few other caveats with hot spares: It will only activate when another drive completely fails, so you can't decide to replace a drive when it's close to failure (probably not an issue in this case, though, with the unresponsive drive). Second, with the hot spare activated, the pool is still degraded, and the original drive still needs to be replaced; then the hot spare is removed from the vdev, and goes back to being a hot spare.

It's these reasons that I've decided to just keep a couple of cold spares ready that I can swap in to my system as needed, although I do have access to the NAS at any time. If I was remote like GP, I might decide to use a hot spare.

"works" in quotes. Compact after an update I measured as a third taller than "normal" density before the update (100px vs 75px). I want maximum vertical space for the website, not for the browser UI. It's really not compact anymore.

I'm still sitting on a GTX 970 and was waiting for the RTX 30 release so I could buy a used RTX 20 at under $500. This pricing means that it's worth it for me to just jump straight to the 30 series.

X 6 years ago

I think there is a design issue in that language. X in a fixed width font should be a constant. X in a variable width font is a variable.

I'm disappointed with the Hero 8 Black. I prefer my old Garmin Virb XE.

I guess this isn't all "ease of use" stuff, but I do think it's all more generally usability:

- The Virb XE has a much easier to find and actuate record switch (physical moving switch); the position of the switch will tell you if you're recording or not if you can't see the camera.

- The Virb XE waterproofing isn't compromized by connecting it to power; the GoPro battery door has to be removed/opened to connect to power.

- The GoPro won't let you connect a bluetooth headset/microphone, so you can't connect a mic and keep waterproofing.

I tried that initially but never spent enough time using it in a VM to really learn it.

In the end, I just decided to take the plunge and set it up as my main OS after a year of procrastinating around trying it out. I've been using it for about 4 years now, and wouldn't go back to a traditional distro.

And finally, 4 years on, I just set up a new laptop and it was much easier than its ever been before. I just had to copy over my existing nix config, and nix built out the whole configuration and my user environment (with home-manager [0]). It's always been a bit of a pain setting up my profile before this, and maintaining my .emacs.d, etc; now it's all managed.

[0] https://github.com/rycee/home-manager