Yeah, good point. It also doesn’t update when the content of a file changes. So, in order to detect a change in a directory, you have to walk all the files and sub-directories and the directory itself to get the last-modified timestamp for each of them. Then determine the highest last-modified and compare it to what you measured in a previous run. If they differ, a change happened.

Yeah, I’m building more-or-less an alternative to make. Major difference is that I’m not using shell commands, but rather users will define their build code in Rust …because it’s intended to be a build tool for Rust applications (beyond what cargo does).

Thanks for the comment, though. So far, I haven’t limited inputs to just be files, so I don’t actually assume to have a last-modified timestamp. Rather, my assumption is that I can get some value which changes when the input changes. In the case of a file, that’s the last-modified timestamp, but theoretically, it could also be a hash. But that means I have to store these values to be able to detect a change. Being able to just say that one thing is newer than the other without storing anything, that is pretty cool and might be worth changing my assumption for.

I don’t think, inotify works for me, because I don’t have a continuously running process. My users rather just run some build command and then I go and check, if any input files changed since the last run.

You probably already worked it out from that other comment, but we Germans call our language “Deutsch” which yes, is a distinct language from “Dutch”.

Frankly, I would be surprised, if anything uses groff for displaying --help, unless it shows the man page for that.
The most basic implementation of --help is a manually formatted multi-line string written into the source code, which gets printed as-is.
For dynamic layouting, you do need more logic, but rendering it to groff source code first does not make that easier. For tabbing, you print an appropriate number of \t.

openSUSE, because of the snapshotting. It’s zero-setup and just gives peace of mind when doing upgrades, as I can roll back even from the bootloader.

I have no experience with this, but I figured a Rust library might have tried to solve it (static linking is very much the norm here) and I found that ash can statically link the “Vulkan loader”. I don’t know, what that actually means, for example whether it would still load libxcb at runtime. Might be worth looking into what they do…

See the “Optional linking” section here for their description: https://crates.io/crates/ash#optional-linking

Well, there’s been clones out there for a few years already. But I don’t think, it’s going to be quite as business-as-usual, since they can’t coordinate a switch to a specific clone, not to mention this clone very likely does not have the server capacity to take on all the users.

Yeah, while writing the comment above, I realized a quip like that could work. Maybe also “We just ran out of strong men, but I’ll see what I can do”. Didn’t have that sleight of mind in those situations so far…

Well, as the other person said, it was not a failing of LiMux. It was political. Munich had been ruled by one coalition throughout the lifetime of LiMux and after it went to a different coalition, they announced the switch back.
The manager of Munich’s IT department also publicly stated that they were surprised by the decision, because there are no larger technical problems and compatibility is resolved by providing virtualized MS Office, where necessary.
Coincidentally, Microsoft also moved its German headquarters from just outside of Munich’s tax region into Munich around the same time.

Yeah, always weirds me out. Like, if you ask for help normally, I’ll be the first to jump up. But if you ask specifically for strong men, you ask me to be a cunt to everyone else in the room, saying I’m stronger than them, which I don’t even know.

And even if I were to think that I’m the strongest, there’s still no way to know that I’m actually able to lift whatever heavy object it is. If I cannot lift it, I’ll look like a massive poser, when I then come crawling back, asking for help from others.

I mean, maybe this works better in different cultural contexts, but whenever I’ve seen it tried, it always resulted in those going along, who did not have to worry to about being confused for strong men. Which is just stupid, too. Let my older colleague throw their back out, even though I would’ve gladly helped as well.

Good way to extort get Microsoft to offer competitive prices. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But yeah, it was the city of Munich that had a few goes at this. Now it’s the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

– Me, when I’m in a social situation

Yeah, I think, there’s just some tech folks and tech bros, who think AI is going to change everything. Then there’s other tech folks, who are simply fucking tired of the hype cycle. And then there’s the majority of people, i.e. the non-techies, for whom AI has largely no bearing on their life. From the position of “it’s going to change everything”, you would probably be alienated massively by there being people who just don’t think about it at all.

The thing is, everyone would agree that it’s a strength, if the Debian-specific format was provided in addition to a format which runs on all Linux distros. When I’m not on Debian, I just don’t get anything out of that…

Same. I guess, this is the Starship thread now. My config:

I adapted it from the Gruvbox Rainbow theme.
I can post my config, if anyone wants specifically that. (It does kind of assume a light background, though.)

Yeah, not a lot of distros they could’ve based it on, which are less rooted in the EU. 🫠

Damn, that hurts my brain, but I guess, I’ll allow it, since I don’t have a better word. I was thinking of a unisex changing room, so where everyone uses the same changing room, but I guess, it’s more that there’s male, female and gender-neutral separately then.

As a German, I’d just like to say *clears throat* GENDERNEUTRALENUMKLEIDE.

I’d also like to say that that’s not a word. I don’t know what they think they’re doing there, but they joined an adjective and a noun together and even declined the adjective in the middle of the word, which makes no sense.

It’s the value of the US dollar over the past 5 days. This is too short of a timespan to assign much meaning to this, but if it keeps dropping, US citizens will eventually have to spend more dollars for the same goods.
In theory, they would also receive more dollars from their job, since they still do the same job and that should be valued the same. But in practice, that’s going to naturally lag behind and companies also have to spend more dollars for resources, so they might never hand out a big enough number of dollars to match the current pay.