In fairness, it’s an old issue and they did put in the work to address the issue report.

Interesting. I wouldn’t know, because I code everything perfectly the first time.

Disclaimer: The above flagrant lie was brought to you by my also using rebase and squash to hide all of my mistakes.

It appears that the behavior actually included a git clean. Which is insane in my opinion.

Yeah. Building a convenient accessible context free way to run git clean…sure feels like the actions of someone who just wants to watch the world burn.

Yeah. They did substantially modify the message to make it much clearer, thankfully.

Yeah. That’s discussed in more detail in the code change that resulted from the issue report.

It’s a ballsy move by the VSCode team to not only include git clean but to keep it after numerous issue reports.

As others discussed in that thread, git clean has no business being offered in a graphical menu where a git novice may find it.

That said, I do think the expanded warning mesage they added addresses the issue by calling out that whatever git may think, the user is about to lose some files.

When I left the project they rehired them and let them design the v2 of the project we just fixed.

Lol. Wow.

And that is why I’ve been unable to work myself out of a job in all my long years as a developer.

Nice. Honestly, pretty well corralled, I would say.

Incidentally, I’m amused that one of the more popular responses includes the classic phrase

“Why can’t we all just get along”

Which I tend to notice after having had it explained well to me once by someone with more empathy than my own.

I won’t belabor it, but they pointed out to me that being tempted to say “Why can’t we all just get along” is usually a sign that we haven’t actually listened effectively.

So now when I hear or read “Why can’t we all just get along”, I see that [X] and hear the buzz from “Family Feud”, and hear one of the Family Feud host kindly say “No points. Let’s try again.”

That’s why I think it’s important that we bring Christmas back to its true religious roots: Fertility, hunting, and maybe a cult of the dead.

Well, that and I just kind of want to piss off all of my pearl clutching relatives.

But seriously, thank you for the reminder that this can be a particularly hard season.

I hope your solstice is marked by good times with real friends and chosen family.

Lol. Well good guess.

I’m not a primary source or anything, of course. Your comment just matches something I heard once in office gossip.

made a bunch of mods to it, still chugs along.

Ooh, that’s a good point. I had a similar experience. Specifically, I didn’t really know what I needed when I bought my Prusa, so I didn’t get all the features. I was pleased to be able to buy/print and mod in a few of the features I was missing in my initial purchase.

I’ll second Prusa. I suspect that no affordable entry level 3d printer is really hassle-free, but my Prusa felt more reliable than my level of experience probably deserved at each stage of my journey.

“novel debt structures” sounds like a sound investment. (This is sarcasm.)

I wonder if I can get on a waiting list to buy like 3 of the Nvidia GPUs after this blows up in everyone’s faces…

It’s still a dick move, because Harper Collins has a huge amount of oligopoly power. Any supposed concession is likely of no real use to any authors who rely on the big companies to get published.

"these actions are part of Boston University’s commitment to re-envision these programs to allow for their long-term sustainability. This temporary pause and cohort reduction will ensure BU is able to meet its commitments to currently enrolled students and to set up its future programs for success.”

I’m inclined to give some benefit of the doubt, here. These programs of study probably aren’t rolling in extra income.

Hopefully BU’s administration mean what they say. The humanities have rarely been huge direct profit centers, but they’re important both for a healthy educational institution and for humanity at large.

In the voice of Jason Bateman: “Oh come on. It can’t be that bad?!”

Voice of Ron Howard interrupts: “It was.”

I have and my wife likes to test it as she never has anything to say to me unless im in the middle of a cutscene that can’t be paused.

As someone who has also found true love…I felt that comment in my bones. I guess it cannot be true love if it’s never tested…lol.

Edit: And all the game developers who make ‘start’ skip the cutscene instead of pausing it need to fix their shit. Argh. Lol.

Sure but an automated ban and manual review and removal could easily leave them blocked for more hours than not, each day.

Blue sky has an owner and investors, right?

Publicly funded organizations should be required to use open solutions.

If they want to also replicate what they post somewhere open to BlueSky and Xitter, and Facebook, so be it.

That said, I could see carving out an exception for BlueSky if it provides the full open stack (public unauthenticated HTML, RSS, federation, etc ), and only while it does so.

Lol. That’s true. I suspect that Xitter doesn’t have the staff or engineering talent left to pivot to enforce any new rules internally. It should be possible to catch them in a constant automated ban without hitting anything worthwhile.

Let’s at least block the government agencies from using it in favor of open platforms and protocols to communicate with its citizens.

Yeah. When public services solely use Xitter or Facebook pisses me off. We can and should make that shit illegal.