Wh… what do you mean, “originally as a joke”?
Wh… what do you mean, “originally as a joke”?
III. We’ve Already Seen Extensive Gains From-
When I was younger, I read R.A Salvatore’s classic fantasy novel, The Crystal Shard. There is a scene in it where the young protagonist, Wulfgar, challenges a barbarian chieftain to a duel for control of the clan so that he can lead his people into a war that will save the world. The fight culminates with Wulfgar throwing away his weapon, grabbing the chief’s head with bare hands, and begging the chief to surrender so that he does not need to crush a skull like an egg and become a murderer.
Well this is me. Begging you. To stop lying. I don’t want to crush your skull, I really don’t.
I didn’t get the first half, could you send it again?
Lost access to your email? Nuh uh.
I did find a wikipedia article to that, and it still seems legitimately more sensible than using Discord for any reason other than gaming-related peer pressure
I think you’re being a little unfair, communication via carrier pigeons is a valid solution as it outpaces IPv4/IPv6 carriers to this day
It’s not Discord, it’s some project that has a Discord community
Judging by Google’s chokehold over web browsers and websites in general, they’re not that different…
No, just base-256 numbers that for some reason people call “binary”
I’ve got to work on the fact that seeing the word “insufferable” on social media makes me instinctively get defensive ._.
They do provide a free service (GTK’s file chooser), one that I find horrible and inconsistent (as per the thread) and intentionally so (on issues tangential to example that I found, although the proposed configurable behavior would be nice) - so I won’t even entertain the thought of trying and contributing to it, as it has been suggested.
I don’t know what is insufferable about that, other than the initial criticism…
Enhancement? No, everything I have a problem with is explicitly intended behavior and GNOME devs are infamous for their everyone is stupid except me mentality
Edit, found a neat lil’ example:
Does Gnome/GTK have an issue board where users vote on issues?
Free software development is not a democracy, and does not get driven by polls. Features and bugs are introduced by those who show up, within a community that works towards a shared goal.
I don’t believe the intentional behavior is desirable and would like to see what other users think.
That’s not how anything works.
Contribute with UX changes? To GNOME maintained software?
The GTK file chooser is probably the worst AND most inconsistent example of UX that I’ve ever seen
Some do, unfortunately getting mad about them is sometimes all they can do in some cases (e.g. the OP)
They probably downvoted because sometimes your job or education strictly requires Linux-incompatible software, and you can’t do anything about it;
but then again, 9 out of 10 of those people spare absolutely no effort to move their eggs out of the metaphorical Windows basket.
Oh yeah, if you know C can be way more convenient depending on the language features you care about (as long as you thread very carefully when doing type punning, which you would rarely want to).
C is no beginner heaven either, printf
is its own can of “why can this function have any number of arguments and why does the compiler have to complain about the formatting every 25 milliseconds” worms
If using pointers is out of the question, then why choose to learn a language with explicit memory access before anything else?
I have yet to learn Rust, but from what I hear it’s simpler and (mostly?) memory-safe – implying that it’s generally a better first language to learn.
Me, because I cannot understand how people can miss the facetiousness of this meme template with such confidence