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My Foot Function on Instagram: “Just buy a size up”

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1 points·by bagasme·3 ปีที่แล้ว·1 comments

Trending Golden Buzzer Performance in America's Got Talent: Putri Ariani

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3 points·by bagasme·3 ปีที่แล้ว·1 comments

Linus fed up with state of media tree (slow response to build problems)

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13 points·by bagasme·3 ปีที่แล้ว·5 comments

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bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> Postgres isn’t in any sense struggling to attract new users – there are plenty of 22 year olds defaulting to it today.

Yes, I do use Postgres for a lot of my self-hosted apps. For PHP applications, though, I keep using MariaDB as their default/only DB.
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Then what would the just right "foot shaped" shoes like?
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The article doesn't mention how to resolve string manipulation problem involving locales.
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
After I digged into related articles on the link, it seems like the holy grail to the config files dilemma is to just hard-code desired settings in the source code. However, it also means that users (especially using binary packages) are stuck with settings from the distro.

If you truly needs user-configurable setting, maybe TOML is for you.
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I think that's not the point that I want to highlight. The problem, however, is some drive-by contributors have unwillingness to accept feedback (including critical reviews). When that behavior become a pattern within contributor's organization/domain, maintainers may take on the err side. For example, Linux kernel maintainers advise to not run checkpatch script on existing sources ([1], [2]). On a occasion, another maintainer had to roll out comment wording fixes after original submitter ignored the maintainer's review ([3]). And the well-known example is when an university was banned from Linux kernel development [4].

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230720134501.01f9f1de@gandalf.... [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2023092730-shampoo-anytime-f437@... [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/162b5545-7d24-3cf2-9158-3100ef64... [4]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%2FTsbmcZzwnX@kroah...
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
As an occasional docs janitor and now helping tracking kernel regressions, I also feel "high tension blood" when I see trivial patches from random Chinese contributors, then I reviewed them but these contributors don't reply to my and others's reviews at all. Last year there were people from @cdjrlc.com domain, then this year from @208suo.com. Even some maintainers agree to block such domains [1].

The takeaway is once you submit your patches, it's your responsibility to address reviews that may come to them.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5fcffcebca2ef9b8c276e5f4b4464d88... [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]...
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Yikes! Applying "all related" answers to the original question is mostly nonsense unless you're lucky.
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Looks like ChatGPT agrees to the forum thread one way or another...
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Today I asked ChatGPT about ArchLinux autoupdate. The question was:

``` As a rolling-release distro, is it recommended to perform automatic update on my Arch Linux system? ```

ChatGPT replied:

``` Yes, it is generally recommended to enable automatic updates on an Arch Linux system. Arch Linux is a rolling-release distribution, which means that it provides frequent updates to keep your system up to date with the latest software and security patches. Enabling automatic updates helps ensure that your system stays current and secure without manual intervention. However, it's still important to regularly review update logs and be cautious of any potential issues that automatic updates may introduce. ```

But when I saw Arch forum thread on above topic [1], its first answer said:

``` Bad idea, archlinux / pacman expect a human to make some decisions. You'd have to check pacman log after every "automatic update" for problems. ```

But AFAIK, you have to roll out your own autoupdate solution since there is none of such thing in pacman itself. Hence why pacman -Syu always asks me on every update.

[1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=247428
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I wasn't surprised then...
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
And since 2021, Google also places scraped Wikipedia articles from possibly shadow, low-end colleges operated by the same marketing group, higher than Wikipedia itself; despite these sites forget proper attribution to original Wikipedia texts [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_co...
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
And when Quora also shows answers from "related" (but IMO not strictly related to the original question in question) by default, I think these answers are mostly incorrect when being applied to the original question.
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Smells like that someone else were given superuser...
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
But what if that vendor product B got crippled (like recently Unity and today JIRA) for most of features that people deemed essential, or even vanished? People who is less fortunate has to switch to more cost-effective solutions (it may include F(L)OSS ones).
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
That's what I think. I guess that contributors on these sites just pull in raw MT-generated translations and post them as is, or do these sites really have human Spanish/Indonesian translators that do actual proofreading? I bet they have none.

Take an example of desdelinux case. The original article (in Spanish) reads:

``` Bueno, como es de esperarse en Gentoo, existen muchas opciones de kernel, les dejo aquí una pequeña lista para que vean mejor a lo que me refiero:

    gentoo-sources: Kernel 4.12 con parches especiales para Gentoo Linux.
    git-sources: Kernel directamente descargado desde el repositorio Git de Linus.
    vanilla-sources: Kernel completo sin ningún tipo de parche.
```

which is translated on the site as:

``` Seperti yang diharapkan di Gentoo, ada banyak opsi kernel, saya tinggalkan daftar kecil di sini agar Anda dapat memahami dengan lebih baik apa yang saya maksud:

    sumber gentoo: Kernel 4.12 dengan patch khusus untuk Gentoo Linux.
    git-sumber: Kernel langsung diunduh dari gudang Linus Git.
    vanilla-sumbersource: Kernel penuh tanpa patch apapun.
```

Notice that linux sources package names (gentoo-sources, git-sources, and vanilla-sources) are translated despite being proper names, which should not be in this case.

Whereas Google Translate renders the translated passage as:

``` Seperti yang diharapkan di Gentoo, ada banyak opsi kernel, berikut adalah daftar kecilnya sehingga Anda dapat lebih memahami maksud saya:

     gentoo-sources: Kernel 4.12 dengan patch khusus untuk Gentoo Linux.
     git-sources: Kernel diunduh langsung dari repositori Git Linus.
     vanilla-sources: Kernel lengkap tanpa patch apa pun.
```

For more natural and flowing translation, I'd like to write it instead as:

``` Seperti yang diharapkan, ada banyak pilihan kode sumber kernel di Gentoo. Beberapa diantaranya:

     gentoo-sources: Kernel versi 4.12 dengan tambalan spesifik untuk Gentoo.
     git-sources: Kernel dengan potret langsung dari repositori Linus.
     vanilla-sources: Rilis kernel asli tanpa tambalan apapun.
```

These intricacies above reminds me of biblical translation context. Translation can be done in either formal equivalence (word-by-word like NASB and ESV) or dynamic equivalence (thought-by-thought as in NIV and NLT). The former seeks to stay close to original language's wording, but may produce stiff target language text. The latter tries to convey meaning of original language in more readable target language text by making use of context interpretation, which if it is done poorly, can divert actual meaning from the original.

Thanks for the reply.
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Another case that scratches my itch was when I take a look on Spanish Linux-themed sites with Indonesian translation (as appeared on first page of Google search results). The translated text looks like stiff, gibberish/incomprehensible, and too formal. It reminds me of statistical machine translation (SMT) output, or is the text really MT-generated?

Examples: [1], [2], and [3].

On the side note, all these sites have a similar design and layout, which makes me wonder if these come from the same organization/group or not. And even these sites' title is also translated, which further raise the alarm.

End result? Here be dragons: visit these sites with a grain of salt.

[1]: https://blog.desdelinux.net/id/gentoo-sources-arm-kernel-tan... [2]: https://ubunlog.com/id/linux-6-6-rc1-sekarang-tersedia-denga... [3]: https://www.linuxadictos.com/id/setelah-memasang-fedora-26.h...
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Yikes! I mean ChatGPT-style search engine is more fit for noobs and the faint-of-heart people (the ones with nothing in the world for them IMO).
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I wasn't shocked, indeed because still stumbled on known issues (like giving false answer on otherwise right context).
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
What I think as the most epic and hype Golden Buzzer in the Got Talent history.
bagasme
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I guess this is a defensive move against being inadvertently used for ChatGPT model.