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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #291286 |
Is this how systemd does it? I think pamac also uses the same escalation method. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #291089 |
Yeah, that makes sense. If you just label posts with status rather than segregating them, it has potential for a mess when you start getting non-certified answers to certified questions. I was just wondering if this is something that we already have without developing any additional UX.
But now th... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291132 |
>Presumably these people are at least users of the software.
I don't think you can presume that. When we talk about contributing to FOSS, we think of someone who wants to write code and solve problems in someone else's program. Whether they themselves use the program is tangential. If you do a str... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291132 |
I don't know if I would call it recent :) I feel like it was all laissez faire until about 2010, and then they decided to really drop the hammer on it between 2011-2012. IMO it's a terrible policy, and many other people think so too, so there's endless attempts at trying to push the line back and rea... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291068 |
Yeah, the focus on community is a big part of what makes this messaging confusing IMO. When I hear "community", I think "people" not "product". So people I can go to, ask questions, and get help. The answers themselves are sort of transient, and the group of helpful people are the real goal, as it we... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291089 |
I didn't know about Staging Ground, but that seems like a great idea that would make everyone happy. I wonder, did it fail because it was somehow fundamentally flawed? Or they just lost interest?
Then again, isn't the staging ground equivalent to letting experienced users mark a question as "certi... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291132 |
That said, why do you feel this is not answerable? For example, if someone posted a large survey of FOSS contributors that looks at this topic, that seems like a pretty objective answer.
I know I've said myself in the question that I'll accept an anecdote, but that's just me compromising for the s... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291132 |
That's a fair comment. You obviously have to draw the line somewhere about what is too subjective. I feel like here it is looser than the closest analog, StackOverflow, since we allow software recs for example. But then maybe this is too loose.
I don't mind deleting this if there's a general agree... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291068 |
@#64277 I do think that would accomplish the goal you have. It would make the site more like a wiki. Wikis don't have this dilemma of balancing quality against people trying to get help, and it's more obvious what the site is trying to do.
But I have to say, guys, if this place is intended to be b... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291089 |
Oh, and, if it's really:
> have them go away and come back when they get it
Then I think this is a bit too subtle in current site UX (well, until your question gets closed). It could be spelled out a lot more clearly, IMO. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291089 |
I do agree that in theory, what you say is correct, for exactly the reasons you describe.
However, I also suspect that new users of QA sites do not see it that way. I think a lot of new users *do* think "my question" and "helping me". I suspect most are unaware of the intellectual property implica... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291089 |
I think the second section is a great description of the current state of things as I see it, maybe better than the one in my question. If indeed I fundamentally misunderstand closures, then it sufficiently rebuts my original post. I do disagree on 2 points.
1) I understand the distinction you mak... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291089 |
Re: your first paragraph, I do agree with your description of the rules as they are written. I also agree that there are some people who act in that way when closing. For example, based on what you wrote here, I would expect that you wouldn't use "too broad" etc. to mean "stupid question".
However... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291068 |
@#64656 If the experts were to ask beginner questions themselves, I think that would also address much of my concern in this.
BTW, is it considered bad form here, if I see a very poorly asked beginner question, and then ask the real question myself then flag the original one as a duplicate of mine... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291068 |
Thanks for the response. Although we disagree, you did a good job of bringing up many valid counterpoints (some which I deliberately omitted in my own post).
Re following the process of "edit then ask to reopen": To be fair, I think this is viable. The problem is that it's too cumbersome with curr... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291046 |
We have code reviews section: https://software.codidact.com/categories/44
If you want feedback on code you should post there. You have several errors/problems in your code that are unrelated to your problem. But it's hard to tell you why your code isn't working without fixing those, and fixing the... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291046 |
The question is actually very simple (see https://software.codidact.com/posts/suggested-edit/1388). The example code is too complicated and doesn't really help explain the question or answer it. IMO you should remove the example code to improve readability. The task is already clear from your example... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291046 |
The answer is something like:
```
nested = []
attrs = ['attr1', 'attr2', 'attr3']
for a in attrs:
u = []
for i in flat:
if i.startswith('attr1'):
u.append(i)
if u:
nested.append(u)
print(nested)
```
Wish I could post a full answer, but unfortun... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290992 |
It has the `nc_permit_dns` option (nc = name constraint?). In the past, when I tried this, I got errors about how a root CA can't have NC. But I just tried adding it and it works. Would you like to post this as an answer so I can upvote/mark worked? (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290747 |
I guess that's where I disagree - I think possessing a good answer is indicative of a good question. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290786 |
While indeed bash is code, bash discussion tends to happen on linux.codidact.com/ so perhaps this question is better move there so it can get better answers. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290788 |
This is surely explained at https://developers.google.com/identity? (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290747 |
IMO, the downvotes are inappropriate here. The question is well-written and easily answerable - in the negative, as I tried to do.
Asking how to do an impossible thing shouldn't be downvoted. Someone trying to learn about a topic may be unaware of what's possible or not, but there's nothing wrong ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290526 |
It sounds like your problem isn't really about Chatty or speech recognition, you just have a simple import error. See if you can follow the answer in https://software.codidact.com/posts/290550 (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290502 |
I think people make a new rainbow table in that case. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290343 |
Fair enough. I know that this is one of your self-answer canonicals. I think the question is interesting, but I noticed all the answer you posted are quite long. So I decided to post a shorter one for people who are in a hurry, and also as an example for how it can be made more succinct. I operate un... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289753 |
This is a good question, but IMO it mixes too many things together, so it's hard to write a good answer. In my own answer, I try to call out the specific things I think should be a separate question. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290301 |
If we're going to have "what is the default setting X in Y program" questions, they should give some version range ("at least in version x.y.z") to avoid becoming less than useful a few years later. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290043 |
There's several questions here:
1. How to make hotkeys run a bash command in Ubuntu?
2. How to make keybindings still work with Ubuntu in Hyper-V?
3. Workarounds for setting keyboard layout.
I think you might get better answers if you ask each one separately. Also, as the other comment says, ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290007 |
I agree with both points in this. In particular, SO sometimes permits a very narrow range of discussion about "best" if you lock the criteria down very tightly. But to provide comprehensive evaluation criteria, you have to be pretty expert to begin with. When you get a total noob asking things like "... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289948 |
I think the question uses "program" in the sense of "service product offered to humans", not "piece of software". It also sounds like a lot of the question is about databases (I know there's parts that mention apps as potential solutions).
This makes it a bit confusing which type of "program" you'... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289891 |
How am I going to `mv` or `cat` the stuff that comes out of that? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289985 |
True. But remember I am proposing that instead of answers like "you have a typo in line 4", we should favor answers like "here is how you can find that a typo caused your bug...".
Anyway, why the preoccupation with typos? There is a lot more to debugging than finding typos. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289985 |
Like many here, most of my experience with QA sites indeed comes from SO.
I know it is not against the rules here per se. However, I have often observed people in meta discussions to suggest various types of "overly localized" questions are undesirable. There does not seem to be much gained by pro... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289909 |
I know there are standalone programs for working with regexes specifically. I am not asking for those, I want a VSC extension specifically.
Posting those programs probably **will** be useful to someone, so they should go in a separate question. However, I don't want to create yet another unanswere... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289860 |
This works also, and is better. It doesn't open files that were open in the previous session, which I like. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289828 |
I don't disagree that poorly made batteries can be dangerous, but I think that maybe an extended discussion of battery discharge related hazards can be moved to a more appropriate site, like electrical engineering, rather than a question about boolean operators in programming.
This appears to have... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289828 |
I know, I just think you're hamming it up a little too much :)
Decades ago it might have been like you describe, but not anymore really. Especially in electronics, where you work with low voltages, it's hard to make things explode.
Battery packs these days do have intelligence with built in cir... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289828 |
Usually cables don't blow up from a short, especially if you're doing layman things. Shorts will allow electricity to be consumed rapidly. With grid AC (as in house wiring) there are already circuit breakers that will automatically turn off when current goes too high. With batteries, the battery will... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289633 |
While this makes sense, it seems a bit strange.
1) Isn't it bad to use exceptions for flow control?
2) Wouldn't this be surprising to a user who expects that `Ctrl+C` will *terminate* the program? (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289605 |
No, just checking between calls is enough. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289588 |
Why don't you just try changing it and see if it runs slower? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289589 |
The two previous questions explain the issue in more detail, but I'm adding my own summary in the hopes that it will be useful to other readers. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289575 |
Thank you! That actually does answer my question. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289575 |
First, it's more accurate to say that `pip` is for installing python *packages*. When you say "dependencies", that makes it sound as if it can't install "tools", when in fact it can install any package. I am not aware of pip being specced specifically as to exclude installing non-dependencies. This i... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289514 |
Didn't know about `at` - seems like what I was looking for. Is this better [than systemd-run](https://linux.codidact.com/posts/289510/289511#answer-289511)? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #280700 |
This is a very transactional way to look at it. Taken to its logical conclusion, it implies there's no point contributing to open source at all.
I understand that some people choose to provide their work for free and resent the fact that they don't get more money out of it. Not all FOSS devs are l... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289443 |
I agree on that as well. "How pipx works" is interesting and useful, but it's not pertinent information. It should be in a separate post. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289443 |
This has some information but it seems a bit too biased in favor of pipx. The first three paragraphs don't add anything. There's some speculation about features that are not actually part of pipx. In the bulleted list, IMO 3, 4 and 6 are already things you get in pip. That said, there are some reason... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289427 |
@#56342 But look what we get if we follow your logic: pip, pipx, apt, brew, cargo (and probably Julia, which I don't know) can all install packages in system locations. Then saying that "pipx is like apt or brew because it installs packages" makes no sense, because pip does that too. So why would you... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |