Well there’s a focus on American events, American billionaires, and the distinctly American flavour of extreme policing

A lot of people are against it because they see it as the first step towards evil, but I still think we should have some sort of recommendation algorithm. New content discovery on Lemmy is way too manual for normies like me.

The sign-up process should be streamlined. It’s really intimidating to have to choose an instance when you don’t even understand what the heck that is. And then there’s the manual account validation. I’m not sure what the solution is but we might want to find one.

And we need to do something about the extremists. They have a right to exist, but the abnormally high prevalence of American-coded communist/anarcho-communist content that just casually talks about executing the rich and the like is weird and intimidating even to me, a decidedly left-wing person. Americans, who are famously doubtful of communism, probably run away from the platform seeing that. And as for non-Americans… Well the proportion of content that’s specifically about American politics is even higher than on Reddit, which is saying something.

Kinda nice but I would have never guessed

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I’ve seen lots of such crap written by humans. I guess AI had to learn it from somewhere.

Idk how Linux handles it but today on Mac I accidentally sent a folder to trash that was in use by four programs at once.

Mac OS did not give a shit. It nuked it.

Maybe there should be a mechanism for merging communities across instances.

If two communities set out with the same goal in a community and one of them didn’t get very popular, wouldn’t it be nice if they could come to an agreement to merge the communities and share the hosting burden?

I wish it were true, but no, not really.

Is that what interactive rebase tools use?

I don’t do CLI git

Huh. Never thought of it that way. I was never bothered by a long commit history at all. Search and filter tools in the git client always get me where I want.

The one issue I have is when there are way too many extant branches and the graph takes up happy half my screen.

But that’s more of a Fork issue than it is a fundamental one. The Fork dev could conceivably find a solution for that.

Either way, I guess I see what you mean. I’m just not that strict about commits. Commits just for the linter aren’t a thing since we have a pre-commit hook for that, and typo-fixing commits… Well, they happen, but they’re typically not numerous enough that I’d find them to be any sort of issue.

As for whether I’d really want to revert a particular change – while I work, yes. Afterwards, I see what you mean; i could probably squash 50 commits into 15 or something. But when I think about the time investment of reviewing every commit and thinking about how they ought to be grouped together before making my merge request… I have a lot of trouble convincing myself it’s a good time investment.

Maybe I’d think otherwise if we had a huge team. We have maybe 10 devs on this project at any given time.

That’s a good explanation of what it’s supposed to do. That was how I understood it as well.

But anytime I’ve tried it, I’ve ended up with conflicts where there shouldn’t be (like, I already solved that conflict when I merged earlier) and/or completely undesirable results in the end (for instance, some of my changes are just NOT in the result).

So I just gave up on the whole feature. Simpler to just merge the source branch into mine.

Hmm, I’m less afraid of force push. It does what it says on the tin. If I pushed a fuck-uo to remote and a reset is the simplest way out, you can bet I’m force-pushing that reset.

Why would you want to squash? Feels weird to willingly give up history granularity…

I don’t understand it. Every time I see something about a rebase it’s some purist telling me it’s “cleaner”. Never got it to do what it says on the tin, and never hit a situation that I couldn’t solve using more straightforward tools like merge.

As long as you never touch the rebase button, you’ll be fine. Probably.

Because my PC is an entertainment box. I don’t want to turn it into a problem to solve.

Also, Nvidia.

I thought most of Grindr was more or less that expectation. Hey, you’re hot, and if you think I’m hot too, let’s meet up tonight. Here’s a sample.

Something like that.

I’m guessing I’m at least partly wrong?

Strictly an app for gay men so I think a woman would be quite out of place

Aah, parenting competence tests. The thing that SOUNDS like a good idea until you think about it for more than two seconds.

Did you just note Typescript, a superset of JavaScript that needs to be compiled into it, as closer to the system?

Also does it technically constitute a language? That feels like a stretch too.

You could also see it as a form of greenwashing, making you think you’re buying local, and thus greener, if you don’t look closely.