I mean, yeah, he could also not use git and just write some random bullshit directly on prod while blindfolded and blackout drunk.
However if you want a good product and good code you need to follow best practices, and those include meaningful and small PRs that you can easily review, check, debug, and revert if necessary.

Most skilled engineers, and even mildly skilled engineers don’t use slopgenerators to write code. Some of them use it sometimes to do some menial tasks, although I’m not convinced it actually saves them time. It sure doesn’t every time we measure it.
There is however a plague of low skilled people who convinced themselves that they’ve found a shortcut to being an engineer. Those people are producing bad things at a fast pace, and the only reason we’re not in an unsolvable crisis yet is that their slop isn’t hitting prod very often on account of being bad.

This doesn’t make me uneasy. It makes me resentful, a little angry, and a lot tired. Thanks for bringing it to attention, I will make sure that nothing of that project or from that author will ever cross my ecosystem again.

Doesn’t matter, it’s entirely too much for one PR

The unified number of combined points (what is refereed as Karma) doesn’t exist on Lemmy. There is some point system comment-by-comment, but it’s not unified. You can’t farm what doesn’t exist.
A bit more than a semantics, isn’t it?

Lemmy doesn’t have karma

I don’t know what you’d consider an alternative exactly, but Sublime Text is quite good and lightweight

Completion here is when shareholders orgasm simultaneously.

Rare, so needed Gnome W

There are so maby different solutions for this on Linux. Syncing folders and backups in general is an old problem with many, many approaches

Blaming liberals for everything is a nice, wholesome American activity. They seem to simultaneously be ineffective at anything, but also responsible for all the evil in the world

I was always a huge KDE fan, and preferred it over alternatives, but even I must admit, it had a bunch of very frustrating problems in the past. I hadn’t had any problems with it last many years, good to know it’s not just my experience, it means they’re really improved it and it’s not just me grew complacent

Yeah. The power of MD is that it’s lightweight, versatile, and not very restrictive. You don’t need to remember a lot, and the parser is dirt easy to implement.
The negatives are that it’s not very restrictive, nobody remembers what’s what, and the parser so easy to implement, everyone and their dog has one, and they’re all slightly different

The whole problem is because format doesn’t actually expects the space there, and it’s left to the interpretation of the parser

https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/
Putting a space is a good practice for compatibility because different software behaves differently. But the standard doesn’t specify it per se.

That’s not it though. Linux doesn’t have a problem with viruses, didn’t have it before, doesn’t have it now. Predicting that it’s going to start right now 20 years in a row isn’t a good idea refardless, and pointing it out is a right thing to do.
Which doesn’t mean it couldn’t really start one day.

Novelty weared off

who do you think they will fire?

10 to 20 percent of the workforce, so the CEO still can get a bonus.

On thinkpads it is, there is a magnet on the bottom.

I’m pretty sure both Nebula and Floatplane look for their talents themselves, you can’t just decide to be there. And they look for something more sophisticated than a guy yelling n-word at children in a currently popular videogame.