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I’m approaching 30 but I started using Merlin a few years ago and have evolved into a casual bird nerd since.

Sounds like Hyrum’s Law.

From Wikipedia:

There has long been a popular belief that this was a deliberate feature of the design, to assemble aluminium aircraft without overtightening the fasteners. There is no good evidence for this suggestion, and the property is not mentioned in the original patents.

The manual is a good place to start. It’s just GNU Readline under the hood.

Yeah, I use it as a fallback sometimes. The one thing I like about Presearch is that it has a customizable sidebar that let’s you duplicate your search on another engine with one click if the results are shite. I also use Allsearch to that end but with Presearch it’s synced across computers through my account.

I use Presearch and generally the results are good enough for my use. Just block the ads and ignore the crypto scam. Seirdy also has a pretty exhaustive list of search engines to choose from.

I have some bad news for you about cars…

I just skimmed it too and it reeks of slop…

!selfawarewolves@lemmy.ml

FUTO is kinda shady

Free speech as a right is an ideal. In practice, any given government of a country that purports to grant its citizens freedom of speech will have types of speech that it wants to censor (despite its legality) and will use whatever means available to subvert that right. As such, speech is only free insofar as it can be protected. Online anonymity is one such protection.

Big Diff Energy

It’s even better when they copy-paste slop answers that are flat out wrong without bothering to check.

That’s not a coherent argument, but you don’t have to agree with me. I think this discussion has run its course.

You’re mistaken:

Indentation is a secondary notation that is often intended to lower cognitive load for a programmer to understand the structure of the code.

If anything, that sounds like an argument in favor of significant indentation, not against it. Humans and machines read differently, yes, which is why we tend to add whitespace and indentation to code even for programming languages where it’s not significant. We do that expressly because it makes the code more human-friendly, so it’s quite the opposite of ignoring their differences.

I think YAML has its fair share of design flaws, but I don’t think significant indentation is one of them. It may not be a programming language (which may be debatable), but there are plenty that use syntactic whitespace.

Not sure I’m following the jump from significant whitespace to machine code. How are those related?

You’re going to indent your code anyway, so why not let the indentation carry meaning?