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Non-English speaking programmers, do you write your comments in your native language?
  • In English even when I'm the only person working on the project as there's always the prospect of someone else looking at it. Also my language doesn't use the latin script and I don't want to mix other scripts into code files. You can always write it in latin script but that's really annoying to read. Funnily enough I wouldn't be so against comments in another "big" language like Spanish or German.

  • Abandoned and colorful

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    What's an aspect of life that's currently done privately that you think should be communalized?
  • That's pretty much the idea, you put it in much better words than me. Let's make community boxes the default and if you want home delivery you can have that.

    Side comment, I don't get how the US deals with porch pirates. Here someone needs to be at home and sign to receive the delivery because literally leave a brick outside and it will have been picked up by someone within the next couple of hours.

  • What's an aspect of life that's currently done privately that you think should be communalized?
  • Sorry yes this assumes you live in a place where you can walk to something like a post office or a supermarket. Rural US may not have this but that's already kind of a problem. You don't have to go every day though. You can just get a notification when your delivery is actually there. This is already done in some places by companies but in a smaller scale where the available boxes are very limited and only for smaller items. With special cases I meant people who have trouble leaving the house for whatever reason.

  • What's an aspect of life that's currently done privately that you think should be communalized?
  • This is very close to your mail example but can we please move on from delivering items directly to houses? Just give me a destribution center or box at a 10-15 min walking distance and I'll gladly pick up everything from there when it's actually convenient. We can still keep the other model for special cases.

  • This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment?
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    Interesting, on the first sentence I actually thought of many different sizes and shapes for the ball, then realized I'd have to pick one before moving on to the next part, so it was kind of a conscious decision. I ended up with a simple grey anti-stress ball. But the table was always the same, light brown wood. All focus is on the ball so the person is just a silhouette partly out of camera but the hand is white and wearing a black sleeve. I only chose what the person looked like after the questions based on what felt right for the initial visualization, like panning out the camera.

    There's another question though. Would your mind get into all this trouble if you didn't know there would be questions coming?

  • What was the worst book you’ve ever read?
  • A book called The Night by a Venezuelan author.

    I feel a bit bad saying this because there are definitely worse books but this one stuck with me as the premise sounded really interesting but the book was nothing like it.

    There is a review on goodreads that sums it up pretty nicely.

    Literature about literature, books about books, literature about books, books about literature, literature about literature, books about books, ...

  • What have you learned recently? Which rabbit hole have you been digging into?
  • After this comment got into reading this comic and learning about the élan school. I was gonna search how much of it is true but the comic is so long that the research will have to wait until tomorrow. If you have a lot of time, it's worth a read.

  • What's a great buy it once Android app?
  • The main thing is a script to stop any media playing and turn off the screen after x minutes, so I can fall asleep watching YouTube or listening to something. There's probably already an app for that but this is pretty customizable.

    Another stupid use is putting the phone on silent while using the camera app because Samsung won't let you turn off the camera shutter sound.

  • Floating seashell

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    Sun into the water #2

    Based on a comment in my other post, tried to get a similar effect with a subject in front. Not the same but turned out nice. Getting fish to cooperate is HARD.

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    The sun breaking into the water

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    Worldle #941 2024-08-19

    #Worldle #941 (19.08.2024) 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 🧭⭐🚩🪙 https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

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    Is anyone using VMware under a Wayland host?

    I've been using VMware Player (free version) for a while now and it's been working fine. Recently I switched to Wayland and VMware's grab input behavior broke. The guest gets most keys correctly but Alt and Super are intercepted by the host. Clicking on the vm also gives me a remote desktop popup on the host prompting to allow remote interaction which gives some weird results both on the host and guest. Apparently this is a known issue with gnome(?) and the only workaround is to add Super to any shortcut (eg. Super+Alt+Tab) but this obviously doesn't work for all shortcuts.

    I'm using Gnome on Fedora and Ubuntu and they seem to have the same behavior (but no remote desktop popup on Ubuntu). Both work fine on X11. I've also tested both VMware player 16 and 17.

    So if anyone is using VMware on Wayland, do you know of a combination that works? Does it work on KDE? Should I just switch to Virtualbox? I'd really rather keep Wayland if possible.

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    Crows in the clouds

    Shot on my phone but it came out pretty good.

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