that’s one of the problems with git. It’s too complicated, it’s possible to half do things, either because what you need to do is multi-step and you forget, skip or otherwise fail to do them all, or because git does something in multiple phases that are not atomic and blows up.
The other problem with git is that people put up with its shit, instead of pointing it out as being shit. It’s the same thing as people putting up with windows crap, and pretending it’s their fault it sucks. It’s a crap data model with a crap interface, with 15 years of bandaids on top of it. There are superior alternatives, free or commercial.
I’m a git fan in large part because Magit is an absolutely stupendous front-end to it. Command-line git is not a great experience, but Magit makes it a joy to use.
It’s like making wishes and trying to word them so they won’t kill you.
As a longtime roleplayer I have some experience in talking to fantasy demons –also less fantastic to the docker demon but this one mostly complies with my demands–djinns and other entities who will mess with anything you ask of them. I should be good at this. But I am trying to prompt engineer stuff for a project making use of one of the things and it’s impossible.
Edit: on the other hand it is also very impressive what it gets right. but the stuff it gets wrong … mistakes are worse than no information and it remains difficult to prompt engineer that one.
some people I know have a test program where they ask a model to produce some factual object, either just a fact (“who won the academy award for best actor in 1953?”) or a compilation of facts (“lsit all the academy awards for best actor since 1980”) or a bit of text. The results are scored (which is what they’re working on, really), and they collect the really weird ones. My favorite was where George Washington was confused with George Washington Carver who was then confused with Guy Bluford, becoming the first president to go to space. There are a lot of things like that where two things get confused (people with the same name…) or two senses of a thing are confused (“a sauce is put on food, while a dressing is used to cover a wound”).
Because I still needed to kill the “infected” windows installation on my NUC that I used for the old project… (infected with surveillance tech the local sysadmins wanted on my installation), I installed Linux Mint on it today (I was going to try out Fedora but somehow the boot-stick failed and I was unwilling to try again and reverted to what I already know a little bit at least.) It’s been many years since I actually used a linux desktop distribution.
It installed Steam quite happily and there is a little button that filters for “games that will work on linux” and that’s way more than I expected. Now the NUC has only onboard graphics… but many games I like need more computing than graphics power I think
I have no idea how much I will use the system… But it is kind of nice to have a backup for my laptop and I am going to install IntelliJ to see what developing might look like on Linux these days. Last time I did that was … in 2010 oO. Since then every place I worked at asked me to use Windows.
IN a bit of coincidence, I shared a link to the wikipeida article about the wicked bible in a work chat today, because a cow-orker said “do X”, instead of “do not do x”, for a freeze period we have.
I’m starting to wonder if English does negation differently from other languages. I’ve encountered quite a few cases of non-native-speakers assuming “not” is a decorative word rather than a complete transformation of meaning.
Yeah, that’s definitely a thing. Quite famously used in Dilbert, but I gather it long pre-dates that. No doubt it’s one of those things which has happened independently, by way of genuine typo, to innumerable people over the years, and been maintained/shared by many of them thereafter.
Personally I’ve never read any sexism into it at all, and I don’t recollect there being any gender bias to the cow-orkers in Dilbert. It’s just a shift of one letter in the original phrase, after all (and I don’t think the amusement value in that would stretch to then changing “cow” to another word entirely).
Also, the word “cow” is often used (outside of farming circles, and at least in my experience) as a gender-neutral term for bovines generally. If I didn’t have any particular reason to make a gender distinction, I’d rarely ever use the word “bull”. Which is a bit weird/confusing, and (I speculate) might be a accidental linguistic shift caused by the large gender imbalance of dairy farming (meaning that any given field of “cows” is most likely to all be, in fact, cows).
its not a misspelling, it’s an intentional usage, which I’ve been doing for 30ish years, after picking it up from a.f.u. It was a standard shibboleth there by the time I started following it.
Back in the day, alt.sysadmin.recovery took this and ran with it, as in “I was discussing this with an orker of cows, and…” That was probably before Dilbert got it but there was certainly crossover with alt.folklore.urban.
There was a children’s film a few years ago set among anthropomorphised cows, which included “boy cows” (of which the protagonist was one). Bulls also existed in this universe. I don’t think the filmmakers intended to be transgressive, and the few people who dragged their children to it mostly didn’t notice.
(I was going to try out Fedora but somehow the boot-stick failed and I was unwilling to try again and reverted to what I already know a little bit at least.) It’s been many years since I actually used a linux desktop distribution.
