If the tool provides the switches on the cli, and the cli cannot do the task which is possible not using the cli. Then the cli is broken. That's not a difficult thought to hold in your head.
The tool defines how to use itself. If it requires using a temporary files to bypass shell limitations that it has no control over, then that's how it should be done and not a broken behavior.
"I want to use blue and red on my multicolor pen at the same time and it's not working so clearly the pen is broken might fit in your head but the pen still isn't the problem...
You are completely missing his point with his answer. His point was less about ffmpeg being broken or not, and more about the fact that if you can't have an opinion or input of your own beside parroting a advanced Markov chain generator, then you don't matter in the discussion.
Assuming I'm the he, that last part isn't exactly what I meant. I meant that there's not a good faith effort in partaking in the conversation. I disagree with blindly following the LLM but even if you do there are ways to productively get help with it.
That's a very wrong view of how Wikipedia works, and frankly vastly I prefer its limited but generalized gatekeeping than "everybody is allowed to lie and bullshit and as long as it makes engagement your feed is going to be filled with it" the TikTok way.
I think it's spot on. I used to be excited to contribute to Wikipedia, now I feel unwelcome and actively alienated. Everyone else I know doesn't even attempt to make any edits because “it all gets deleted anyway”. It's an incredibly hostile, unproductive and unwelcoming environment for anyone trying to make goodwill contributions.
I have at least twenty years of experience of Wikipedia, and it is exactly how it works much of the time. I lost count of the occasions when people with no knowledge of a particular subject kept trying to delete articles on it. Then there were the continuously changing rules, jargon and oligarchical structures...
Some subject areas have much better coverage than others: linguistics is much better dealt with than sport for example.
Nowadays I rarely edit Wikipedia, because they block most shared IPs. I used a named account for at least ten years and it was counterproductive.
To be fair, I'm not sure if it's an interop/open source thing, and it's just the fact that windows was always based on the fact it can be disconnected and run on a local account, even though microsoft tries to hide it.
Also one thing I have discovered with the whole work from home thing, is that users connected to their personnal cloud account on windows at home who then also connect their professionnal o365 account for work randomly end up with various weird issues.
Their cloud account in the OS thing is just not well thought out.
The EU court case against Microsoft, with FSFE and the Samba team fighting the good fight, was also a major step in getting there.
It was one of the "first few major cases" in the EU against tech, and the testimonies from the open source side had been great in explaining to the judge just what they wanted (and almost as important, what they didn't want at all, despite Microsoft claiming otherwise)
Then Microsoft got a fine by day and tried to play the force card by refusing to pay for a while.
It really depends on the quality (strenght of the teeth, willingness to use it) of the regulator here; we have a lot of similar situation in EU/France and it's always a case that either it creates a new right or it creates a moat, depending on the enforcer.
Another exemple being "Comments are not for extended discussion ! if you want to actively bring value by adding information, later updates, history, or just fun that cultivates a community, please leave and go do that somewhere else like our chat that doesn't follow at all the async functionnality of this platform and is limited to the regular userbase while scaring the newcomers."
"comments are not for extended discussion" is one of the biggest own goals of SO product development. Like, they had a feature that people were engaging with actively, and the discussions were adding value and additional context to posts, and they decided "yeah, let's kill this".
The people who run SO have some sort of control-freak complex. If there's anything I've learned from the SO saga, it is that oftentimes just letting a community do what it wants (within reasonable boundaries, of course) leads to a better and more successful product than actively trying to steer things in a certain direction.
Oh absolutely - when it becomes clear you have high engagement somewhere, adapt that feature to facilitate the engagement! They could have made comments threaded or embedded ways to expand it into the right forum, but instead they literally shut down engagement. Bonkers.
hahaha, I almost forgot about that! "stop talking about edge cases and other things pertinent to this topic in comments about this topic!! reeeeeeeee!!!!"
This is such a weird comment, the article is posted without commentary, and describe a very simple fact. How does you go from that to "hn is out of touch"...
As an aside, while alcohol will definitely remain a staple of sales, it's declining in several key sector. Even here in France. Which is also something we should be happy about, despite the obvious economic woes to be faced from that change.
Which is the vast majority of spirits consumed (by unit volume and total revenue earned), no?
Like, if high-end stuff is all that sells while the consumer base is plummeting over the statistical cliff of earning power and spending money reduction, that doesn’t add up to good prospects for luxury industries like that of high-end alcohol.
The numbers look really odd with scotch and bourbon being down but the whiskey industry itself being slightly up. I'd guess more people are drinking local brands with no tariffs. That makes a down affect for the countries that were exporting.
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