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Paul White

12:09 AM

I wouldn't say you are unreasonably difficult

Michael Green

1:33 AM

'Morning all.

Hannah Vernon

2:52 AM

@PaulWhite thanks, i think

J.D.

3:50 AM

03/28's:

Wordle 647 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

J.D.

4:06 AM

Sunrise

Zikato

6:20 AM

Morning

Wordle 648 5/6*

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟨⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Paul White

7:35 AM

@HannahVernon Maybe. It's hard to remember how discoverable it was before I knew how to get to it from the 'impact' box on user activity page summary

I think if you have a non-comment flag declined you get a more direct link in the message

ypercubeᵀᴹ

8:13 AM

@HannahVernon yeah, it's hard to find if you don't know where it is: Activity -> IMPACT section, "helpful flags" is a link

Charlieface

9:48 AM

I've always thought that tiny link was stupid and completely undiscoverable. I keep forgetting where it is and I go on that page every couple weeks.

Paul White

10:00 AM

@HannahVernon By the way, this link works for everyone dba.stackexchange.com/users/flag-summary/current

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That link appears on the help pages dba.stackexchange.com/help/declined-flags and dba.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts

Charlieface

10:16 AM

That still isn't very discoverable. You would think there would just be a Comments button on the left along with Answers Tags Badges etc, but no, Someone needs to go back to UX school.

Paul White

It's possible it's deliberately hard to find.

@Charlieface Comments?

Seems like a suboptimal design to me, but what would I know

Charlieface

10:52 AM

@PaulWhite Sorry meant to say Flags, but yeah Comments is missing also.

John K. N.

11:24 AM

Wordle 648 3/6

⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Morning

Had a good starting word today. Alas, the sought after word wasn't....

Zikato

11:49 AM

Any GitHub expert know why it shows diffs where there are no diffs?

I've used both manually cloned version and the Edit button in the GUI. The manually cloned repo doesn't show these changes on commit, only when Pull Request is created

My guess was encoding or different line ends. But no warning from SQL prompt on different line endings and for encoding it seems too random

J.D.

@Zikato Yea that's what I was about to suggest or for some reason different whitespace characters? Could throw both into Notepad++ or something and turn on the Show All Characters to double check. Weird.

Zikato

I have autocrlf so it would have to be the original that has the mix. But it's weird that even GitHub gui would change that

well, it was a roundabout way of saying: I blame @ErikDarling
because he's the maintainer of that repo

J.D.

lol

Charlieface

12:10 PM

GitHub's diff is garbage, given it's based on the standard file-based diff command. We need a diff tool that actually understands syntax, so it can ignore insignificant whitespace, and insignificant reordering of declarative syntax.

The amount of times I'm looking through diffs of XML and I realize the only changes are attribute="value"</tag> and attribute="value" </tag>

Paul White

Which is that programming language in which whitespace is important?

Charlieface

For some reason the XML formatter in VS has changed to add whitespace after the last attribute. So annoying.

@PaulWhite Python off the top of my head. And XML at the beginning or inside node names.

Or for that matter any language inside a quoted string

Paul White

Probably 🐍 I was thinking of

Charlieface

?

Paul White

Python = 🐍

Whitespace (programming language)

Whitespace is an esoteric programming language developed by Edwin Brady and Chris Morris at the University of Durham (also developers of the Kaya and Idris programming languages). It was released on 1 April 2003 (April Fool's Day). Its name is a reference to whitespace characters. Unlike most programming languages, which ignore or assign little meaning to most whitespace characters, the Whitespace interpreter ignores any non-whitespace characters. Only spaces, tabs and linefeeds have meaning.A consequence of this property is that a Whitespace program can easily be contained within the whitespace...

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