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eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Things I wish Git had: Commit groups
You can show the full changes by one of these:

> git show --first-parent COMMIT # perspective of target branch = branch you were on when merging

> git show -m COMMIT # perspective of both branches

Lengthy explanation and more ways to do it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40986518/git-show-of-a-m...

Also the following works in my experience and is more easy to memorize because the command literally says what you want to know:

> git diff COMMIT_BEFORE_MERGE..MERGE_COMMIT

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on New [July 2, 2021] Audacity Data Collection Policy
> Where does this end?

It could maybe be ended in the bugtracker if enough people complain - there is an entry for this already:

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on An autonomous drone for search in forests using optical sectioning algorithm
With opt-out from society becoming impossible now, "The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit" may be an interesting read:

https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

> For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legend—or maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest.

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Doge Branded as Ponzi by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President
> without creating anything of value to a society,

Can be true, but is not necessarily always true:

They might already have created value for society by working, and now want to save their thereby hard-earned money without getting the fruit of their work stolen by inflation.

What's bad about not wanting to be deprived of your retirement savings?

Governments have a long track record of providing poor pensions, of course people want to protect themselves against that.

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Doge Branded as Ponzi by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President
Again the same:

The purposes of startups and existing companies who want to find investors are not necessarily the same purposes as of those who just want to put money aside for saving.

They surely may benefit from cheap inflated dollars.

But that does not mean savers benefit.

Like with software, one person's feature is another person's bug. Bitcoin users consider inflation as a bug, so that's why they use it.

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Doge Branded as Ponzi by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President
> The US dollar loses value over time on purpose.

Sure it does that on purpose.

But a purpose as desired by one entity is not necessarily a good purpose for another.

Is it a good purpose for the US government's need of financing their country? Yes.

Good for people who want to save money? No.

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization
I have multiple thousands of personal TODOs, so it is impossible to manage that size of a workload without proper UI for moving, sorting and filtering according to priority, location, project, etc.

But thanks for your suggestion anyway :)

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization
Thanks!

I'm looking for an Android app unfortunately, sorry :|

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization
> Even offline-only apps might gain online capabilities. You need to read the changelogs nevertheless.

No, I only have to look at the permissions. That is much less work because they're not arbitrarily long like changelogs can be.

And Google Play flags new permissions with a green "New", so it's easy to spot.

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization
Thanks!

I had tried Markor already, and its TODO feature seems like a prototype unfortunately. It lacks crucial UI to use it properly and it's clearly visible that the TODO part is "bolt-on" only on top of a text editor. :|

With regards to Todo.txt[2]: I can't manage to find its source code, is it open source?

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Haunting Photos Reveal an Abandoned Town of Disneyesque Castles
Why is there a miniature bike lane inside a very long stretch of road without a bike lane?
eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization
See my reply to jszymborski for my problem with that.
eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization
Well thanks, but on Android it demands "full network access", so it does want to do something on the internet :|
eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization
Thanks.

That is nice but consider a broader point of view please:

If not carefully choosing offline-only software, then almost everything demands internet access nowadays. All of those things will claim that they handle my data safely. Obviously that cannot be true, leaks do still happen.

So from the perspective of someone who has to actually install, use and frequently update a dozen of Android apps, it is much easier to stick to only using such which do not want internet access instead of constantly having to read a very large amount of changelogs because all software you use is hooked up to the internet.

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization
I could use the opposite:

A TODO-app which has no synchronization capabilities so I don't need to worry about leakage of private data.

Ideally it would use a very simple plaintext file format for its database so it is future proof, e.g. http://todotxt.org/

The TODO.txt format seems very nice but the Android apps listed on that site are either not fully developed or unmaintained, and one even looks like it's not open source.

Simpletask seems like the most advanced implementation, but it got kicked out of Google Play for the usual Google shenanigans, so the author says on a sticky GitHub issue that he has lost motivation: https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-android/issues/1110

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network
32 + 271 pages, is there a TL;DR available somewhere?
eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network
At this point I am not even angry anymore.

Instead, I am insanely curious about why they are doing such a large amount of very inflammatory actions in a short timespan!?

They must for sure know that they will 100% certainly destroy their platform. Why are they doing it anyway?

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Neural Actor: Neural Free-View Synthesis of Human Actors with Pose Control
The move to virtual characters is already happening on Twitch / YouTube, check out CodeMiko:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsQjxEd-gsw

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths
> with its self-rewrite immune escape functionality.

Interesting! Could you elaborate on this or provide a link?

> but also because the spike protein was already "solved" ahead of the pandemic.

I would also be interested in further information on that?

Thanks

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
Can you please tell which rulings were ignored by Germany and Italy? I'm curious.
eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Survey of 10k Americans reveals what adults think of ‘cancel culture’
There's a scientific explanation for all the outrage on the Internet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc - "This Video Will Make You Angry" by CGP Grey

Be aware that the video goes deeper than you'd expect from the beginning.

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
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eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Mazette
The algorithm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtracking

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Why are there so many unfinished buildings in Africa?
Greece in the early 2000s had very many unfinished buildings as well, saw those as a tourist.

I've been wondering ever since what the Greek reason for that was - any ideas?

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Sofar Bomb
Which kind of clocks would they use back in WW2 to be accurate enough for this?

How would they sync them?

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on What you learned after having kids that questioned the decision of having kids?
Try to read/watch the news every day for some time.

Do you want to force someone to live on a planet where things happen which are a daily occurrence on ours?

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7··on Two Years of Squash Merge (2019)
> Git desperately needs a layer above the commit that groups related commits together into a semantically commit-like object that you can show in history and jump to its HEAD and cherry-pick.

It's called a "branch" :) The commit-like object to represent it is the merge commit.

If you need to group related things in a branch in a more fine-grained fashion then do sub-branches and merge them into the branch with "--no-ff" so you get a merge commit for each to describe them.

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