And which one would be better in the Debian/Ubuntu sphere, in your opinion?

If that’s the only error mechanism, sure. Exceptions in most languages tend to be relatively expensive, though, and most have a cheaper idiomatic way of returning error codes; you’d want to use those if they’re available, right?

I think not being able to get the current time from the system is very exceptional. And I think exceptional circumstances should act that way and not “look like” normal executions. To me, that means letting hell break loose, and not “silently” return a 1 instead of a 0.

By similar reasoning, “Exceptions in most languages tend to be relatively expensive” is a very weak argument. We don’t expect this error-throwing code to execute a lot.

Literally every driver caught speeding.

It’s clever because “he” still hasn’t learned a thing and now blames the omniscient being instead of himself.

there was a significant decrease in file fragmentation

is that relevant for SSD users?

With Linux servers continuing to have more CPU cores and more containers being loaded on each server, Huawei began noticing scalability issues within the EXT4 file-system driver code.

Simply put, the fallocate operations per container per second are able to come up significantly

So these improvements are for high-load scenarios, right? Casual users won’t notice any improvements? (Not to bash this contribution, just asking)

If your distro ships with the tool inxi, you can dump a lot of data about your system with inxi -Fazy. Folks might be better able to help you then. The -z flag filters sensitive information.

I just put a bunch of stuff on this pc and would rather not have to switch back to mint.

If you move that stuff to a partition that’s different from where root lives, switching operating systems shouldn’t be a problem. You can just mount the data partition on your new OS, if the need arises.

By then we’ll have vendor lock-in. WhO cOuLd’Ve FoReSeEn ThAt?

Another thing LLMs have going for them is that they’re dirt cheap. Sure, it may only be correct one third of the time, but it costs 5% of the ‘good’ solution. So using the LLM and degrading quality makes business sense.

Anybody capable of using a CLI knows that the right answer is:

• index from 0
• end is exclusive.

Dijkstra points out why: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

So you might need to try different file extensions.

No, you don’t. The HTTP response header will tell you what type it is.

I’m not sure what you’re talking about. You need to know the name of the file before you can download it.

For instance, my lemmy client, says in its HTML that its favicon is <link id="favicon" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/9c6eeb58-bf66-4a15-9537-0a822f3c4feb.png">. If I were to blindly download /favicon.ico, I’d naturally get a 404 page:

$ curl https://sopuli.xyz/favicon.ico -i
HTTP/2 404 
# more data

It doesn’t have to be an *.ico file. So you might need to try different file extensions.

You prompted me to read up on these things. It turns out that Germany has been cooking their own debit card scheme (Girocard) for the last 20 years, and it’s incompatible with the rest of the world. But banks seem to be transitioning towards Visa or Mastercard.

Github doesn’t accept Girocards.

TBH, I’m not a fan of yet another entanglement with US-based companies for something as simple as moving money.

• Last time I checked, Github required a credit card for its paid stuff.
• PayPal is a privacy nightmare. LiberaPay does accept the usual SEPA wire transfers and debit collects, but only if the recipient accepts them, too.
• Patreon only accepts credit cards or PayPal.
• Crypto… is crypto
• Polar only accepts credit cards and whatever the hell „Cash App Pay” is.

I have access to none of these options, except SEPA iff Bottles accepts it.

I have a feeling that fundraisers would get a lot more funding if they weren’t so US-centric. I’m German. I don’t need a goddamn credit card. I have money. And I don’t want some private company snooping through my accounts.

I am a frontend dev. JavaScript (well, TypeScript) is my bread and butter. Even knowing its quirks I never would have thought how inconsistent Date actually is. I encourage everyone to try this quiz.

This is what JavaScript haters should bring forth, not 0.1 + 0.2 !== 0.3!