Often “silent” fails are a good thing

Silent fails have caused me to waste many hours of my time trying to figure out what the fuck was happening with a simple script. I’ve been using -e on nearly all bash code I’ve written for years - with the exception of sourced ones - and wouldn’t go back.

If an unhandled error happened, I want my program to crash so I can evaluate whether I need to ignore it, or actually handle it.

Exactly, if an unhandled error happened I want my program to terminate. -e is a better default.

reminds me when Brazil launched their Pix payment system nationwide, which is free for individuals, and the US launched an investigation into unfair trading

potential unfair advantaging of Brazilian payment services over US competitors was cited

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has accused US president Donald Trump of being “bothered by Pix” because it “will put an end to credit cards”

lol get rekt

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Also, it’s useful to know how, when, or why something happens. I can make a useless chatbot that is “right” most times if it only tells people to seek medical help.

I hope that discourages open source projects and similar communities from using discord as forum / user support.

it just means they’ll be a passive node, but still able to seed if the other node connects to them. It’s the setup I have and I manage to keep an overall ratio >1, especially if the torrent is popular.

you don’t actually know that you would have continued playing that game

yes, that’s kind of my point. With this feature it’d be more likely that I would. I don’t play games for the boss fights, but even story-driven ones have them at times. They’re more of a nuisance to me.

Idk, I’ve left some games behind, which I could have played many more hours, just because I didn’t have the patience to get past a level/battle/boss, whatever. Not so much as a teenager, but definitely as an adult.

Linus tech tips

getting a stack overflow trying to expand GNU

if you use this often, you can add a keyword search (firefox-based browsers) or a custom site search (chromium-based) with this URL

https://icon-sets.iconify.design/?query=%25s

(use %s after equals; some lemmy front-ends seem to be rendering it wrong)

and a shortcut e.g. icon

so everytime you enter e.g. icon person in a new tab, it’ll run the search for you

I miss start menu ads, intrusive bing searches, copilot upselling, MSN news, and uninstallable things I’ll never use on my PC like Xbox.

the main reason I started installing more “-bin” variants of packages

it’s fine to prefer less colors, but man, that (2025) blog post is all over the place…

Sometimes it gets so bad one can’t see the base text color: everything is highlighted. What’s the base text color here?

why does the base color matter at all? What is “base” anyway when every word has a syntactic meaning?

Here’s a quick test. Try to find the function definition here:

It’s funny to see how this test backfired depending on the person in hacker news, lobster, and lemmy threads. Clearly a personal preference phrased as absolute truth.

But the crux of why the post doesn’t make sense is assuming this would matter at all:

Here’s another test. Close your eyes (not yet! Finish this sentence first) and try to remember what color your color theme uses for class names?

Can you?

If the answer for both questions is “no”, then your color theme is not functional.

No, it doesn’t. And it boggles my mind why someone would think that failing to recall colors-to-syntax pairs would mean the theme has failed you. Visualizing colors, more often than not, is not even a conscious effort. Colors are a subtle aid to guide your attention to the parts that matter.

Can you see it? I misspelled return for retunr and its color switched from red to purple.

This would/should be better caught by a static checker anyway.

But the best part is that the post contradicts itself: the suggested minimal theme doesn’t even address that typo use case mentioned above, because it doesn’t feature a distinct color for special keywords. So if one were to follow the post’s advice, return and retunr would look exactly the same, making it worse than the colorful theme it criticizes.

Even writing an RFC for a mildly complicated feature to mostly describe it takes so many words and communication with stakeholders that it can be a full time job. Imagine an entire app.

you know, using a better encoding is better for your dial-up internet too

Every time I read something like this it comes to mind that we’re more likely to remember the good bits of the past than the struggles. People use containers because the “works on my machine” problem was a constant pain.

You can still ship code into production quickly if you pair program and commit to trunk to bypass the code review process, and have a CI/CD pipeline set up to automatically build and publish the package.

And I’d much rather have a cloud env pull my code and automatically deploy something than manually transfer files over FTP.

lmao