I interpreted “it” in the post title as referring to Linux. Firefox is “just a browser,” but Linux is not.

Damn okay well if the hackers are at that level I guess you’re just screwed.

Let’s see the hackers figure that one out!

s/“a god”/“finished for the day”

Mom can we have Linux?

No

sudo Mom can we have Linux?

What the hell kind of second-rate DBMS doesn’t encode gender into its primary keys SMDH!!

Maybe there’s a specific person who keeps doing this and they wrote this error specifically for him.

But is he rewriting in Rust?

Nice. Imagine the lady in the post’s face when she learns that “oom badness” is how they decide which child to sacrifice.

What’s that from?

Idk, if you don’t get too flummoxed by “stranded preposition” and “relative locus,” the rest is pretty plain IMO.

Kernel Panic at the /dev/disk/0

Yeah lol I’m familiar with “kill child” in a process management context, but I’ve never seen the word “sacrifice” come up. Is that a thing?

unexpectedinterrobang

Lol you just saw “stranded preposition” and bailed, hey?

Hack with benefits!

Is it really less secure than a password? How so?

Ah, you’ve never worked somewhere where people regularly rebase and force-push to master. Lucky :)

I have no issue with rebasing on a local branch that no other repository knows about yet. I think that’s great. As soon as the code leaves local though, things proceed at least to “exercise caution.” If the branch is actively shared (like master, or a release branch if that’s a thing, or a branch where people are collaborating), IMO rebasing is more of a footgun than it’s worth.

You can mitigate that with good processes and well-informed engineers, but that’s kinda true of all sorts of dubious ideas.

You can get in some pretty serious messes, though. Any workflow that involves force-pushing or rebasing has the potential for data loss… Either in a literally destructive way, or in a “Seriously my keys must be somewhere but I have no idea where” kind of way.

When most people talk about rebase (for example) being reversible, what they’re usually saying is “you can always reverse the operation in the reflog.” Well yes, but the reflog is local, so if Alice messes something up with her rebase-force-push and realizes she destroyed some of Bob’s changes, Alice can’t recover Bob’s changes from her machine-- She needs to collaborate with Bob to recover them.

I gotta say, I was with you for most of this thread, but looking through old commits is definitely something that I do on a regular basis… Like not even just because of problems, but because that’s part of how I figure out what’s going on.

The whole reason I keep my git history clean and my commit messages thoughtful is so that future-me (or future-someone-else) will have an easier time walking through it later, because that happens all the time.

I’ll still almost always choose merge instead of rebase, but not because I don’t care about the git history-- quite the opposite, it’s really important to me in a very practical way.

Yeah, tbh the “no timezones” approach comes with its own basket of problems that isn’t necessarily better than the “with timezones” basket. The system needed to find a balance between being useful locally, but intelligible across regions. Especially challenging before ubiquitous telecommunications

Imagine having to rethink the social norms around time every time you travel or meet someone from far away. They say “Oh I work a 9-to-5 office job” and then you need to figure out where they live to understand what that means. Or a doctor writes a book where they recommend that you get to bed by 2:00PM every night, and then you need to figure out how to translate that to a time that makes sense for you.

We’d invent and use informal timezones anyway, and then we’d be writing Javascript functions to translate “real” times to “colloquial” times, and that’s pretty close to just storing datetimes in UTC then translating them to a relevant timezone ad hoc, which is what we’re already doing.

That’s what my rational programmer brain says. My emotional programmer brain is exactly this meme.