I just optimized the context messages and I’m now happy with:

Error: Execute command: redo workspace/motd.json

Caused by:
    0: using sqlite db 'workspace/.redo3.db'
    1: clear dependencies for motd.json
    2: attempt to write a readonly database
    3: Error code 8: attempt to write a readonly database

The “0” context is especially important because it tells you which file is read-only. Here is the code for that:

pub(crate) fn start(mut self) -> Result<DoFileExecution> {
    let rc_folder = self.target.path.parent().unwrap_or(Utf8Path::new("."));
    let mut db = Db::try_open(rc_folder);
    db.transaction(|tx| {
        tx.clear_dependencies(self.target.basename())
            .with_context(|| format!("using sqlite db '{}'", rc_folder.join(DB_FILENAME)))
    })?;

    let now = chrono::Utc::now();
    ...

I don’t think something like “failed to clear dependencies using sqlite db ‘{}’” would be helpful. Something like “failed to” or “error when” does not really add any information. Just describe what is happening. Also, the “clear dependencies” would be redundant because that function can handle that part itself (see msg 1).

Since context is kind of on topic, what should one write there? Are there any principles for writing good context messages?

fn beebboop() {
    foo();
    bar().context("frobnicating");
    baz();
}

Instead of “frobnicating” in this rough example, I could also write that we intend to “baz” afterwards or that we are “currently beebbooping” or “bar failed” or I could even mention “foo” or …

From my (rather limited) experience, it seems most useful to describe what beebboop is about to do. Sometimes that is weird though, because then the context for foo, bar, and baz calls would be essentially the same.

You can also try fish, to see what a decked out zsh feels like. 😇

Android/iOS users: What is “closing“? What is a „program“?

I’m under the illusion that i did figure out how Gimp works. ☺️

And it works just as well, if we reverse the roles:

🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨
🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨
🪨

Human: There are 11 rocks.

Alien: Oh, you must be using base A. See, I use base 10.

Human: No, I use base 10. What is base A?

I use “m”. Here is how to set the default btw:

git config set --global init.defaultBranch m

The book alone is already funny. Their faces though…

Who said anything about “five nines”? All we know from the article:

A couple of hundred claims a week would be a lot in normal times, he says. When the coronavirus hit, millions of claims suddenly were being filed and hitting the front end, which could not handle the massive increase in volume.

I’d say it wouldn’t be that critical if was down half the time.

Not sure of these “millions of claims” were submitted within days, weeks, or months. So we have no clue about the volume. Maybe a single server would be fine. But who am I kidding, the cheap Javascript guys will probably build a distributed cloud monster anyways…

I don’t understand why they need COBOL programmers when it is a frontend load problem. Let some cheap Javascript guys write a new frontend with a cache.

I hope Lemmy will become this. Here is my strategy:

1. Create a Lemmy community (for example !automotive@discuss.tchncs.de).
2. Submit something every few days. Not much quality control. Quantity over quality for now.
3. Hope for a community to form.

Me too. The final “fight” in Portal was against my controller not Glados.

As someone who works in an “Rational” environment, I don’t really see a way out because that is just how this industry works. It isn’t about changing the way how our organization works, it would require changing our customers.

Spiritfarer. I’m a patient gamer and now that it is on sale, I finally picked it up.

Looks like fun but i heard it isn’t that easy. I fear it would be too frustrating for my kids (yet).

Purely open-source (no non-free data), then Widelands might be what he spent the most time on.

Sounds like non-free data is allowed. Then surely ioQuake is the native game I spent the most time with.

Sounds like you would prefer a peer2peer approach instead of federation? A few years ago, I wrote up why I don’t belief in p2p. In short: It’s too costly and too complex.

Well, initially he moderated everything. He also creates lots of sock puppets for fake activity. That would be much easier today with chatgpt.

I would not bet on that. In fact, i bet some play money against that.