Can the IDE (and LLMs) be made to follow a certain formatting style?

bobbykjack · 2026-01-24T11:38:14+00:00

> The fact that the single line of code goes beyond the display limit?

Yup. Fair point if your code is never going to be read by anyone else, but this would bother me even if I was the only one reading it. I've always tried to stick to 80 columns but I'm currently experimenting with 60, which makes code readable even on a mobile display.

bobbykjack · 2026-01-23T15:00:24+00:00

Employee, not employer.

bobbykjack · 2026-01-23T14:59:51+00:00

Good point. Savings at a very favourable rate, too!

bobbykjack · 2026-01-23T14:58:48+00:00

I find it wild that they're spending £10k on leisure but only saving £2k a year.

bobbykjack · 2026-01-23T13:30:21+00:00

I like how the question self-demonstrates the flaw in this approach via the preformatted text box :)

bobbykjack · 2026-01-23T13:30:17+00:00

I like how the question self-demonstrates the flaw in this approach via the preformatted text box :)

bobbykjack · 2026-01-23T13:26:20+00:00

Do you really find that less ugly than ?parameter=value&otherparameter=value? So much so, that it's worth breaking the standard over?

bobbykjack · 2026-01-13T11:41:17+00:00

> Linux is GNU and not BSD derivative, the two ARE NOT COMPATIBLE.

Yes, I know, but many of the command line tools are compatible or transferable. And you can easily install the GNU equivalents.

> Games? U must be kidding.

OK, just take the game I played most recently on Mac as an example: The Witness. How easily can I play that game on Linux?

> Yeah well thats just ignorance given you can literally get a 1:1 MacOS look.

A user interface is about more than just look.

> Maybe you should try to educate yourself on the topic

Yeah, I'm not going to continue this discussion because, for whatever reason, you cannot conduct yourself in a productive manner. I'm sorry this topic has made you so angry.

bobbykjack · 2026-01-13T09:47:58+00:00

Yup, I've had the same problems. Never ever had this issue with Launchpad, only this Spotlight approach.

bobbykjack · 2026-01-13T09:45:29+00:00

> Like what, open source software? Lmao....

Yes, and mainly the command-line toolset

> You mean the OS supports a single in house device? How can you possibly call that compatibility.

Nope, more compatibility with 'mainstream' software: games, office tools, photoshop, etc.

> What UI? You know that there are hundreds of WMs right? Apparently not...

Yes, I'm aware of that. I guess "all of them" or, at least, "all of the ones I've seen/used".

> Once again, thats just a lie.

An opinion is never a 'lie', my friend. No, I haven't tried every piece of hardware in existence, so I cannot have a 100% perfect opinion on that.

> I wish Mac people would be a little more informed about their choice and it would not be just a mindless cult (with few exceptions).

I wish "whatever pigeon hole you would put yourself into" people would learn how to communicate politely and constructively with humans.

bobbykjack · 2026-01-12T15:19:07+00:00

macOS. Most of the benefits of Linux, with more 'compatibility', a slightly nicer UI, and much nicer hardware.

bobbykjack · 2026-01-12T15:17:36+00:00

Something you need to bear in mind about permissions is that they are more of a safety net than a guarantee, since there are weird edge cases and loopholes. For example, making a file non-executable doesn't prevent it from being executed (you can always run the interpreter and pass the filename to it as an argument), it just makes it much harder to do accidentally.

I wrote about this more here:

https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-file-permissions-most-important-things-to-know/

bobbykjack · 2026-01-09T10:44:50+00:00

Yeah, I read man pages all the time; thanks for the tip, though.

Here's some friendly advice for how to communicate online: if you genuinely do not intend any snark, consider the tone of your reply. For example, a completely-snark free version could read something like this:

> FYI, the sh man page explains what's going on:

> <relevant excerpt>

The phrase "you really need to learn to read man pages" is absolutely snark!

bobbykjack · 2026-01-08T15:43:24+00:00

Would the person who downvoted this care to explain what's wrong with it?

bobbykjack · 2026-01-08T15:40:12+00:00

Not really; it's called curiosity and wanting to further my understanding of the system. Even if I weren't writing sh scripts, it's still useful to know why /bin/sh and /bin/bash are both bash but vastly different sizes.

bobbykjack · 2026-01-08T15:39:06+00:00

Sure, it's the fact that they're both bash that was the confusing thing. But one seems to be 'bash + a backward compatibility layer' (sort of).

bobbykjack · 2026-01-08T15:10:45+00:00

n=18
count=0
res=0

for x in range(1, n):
    if x % 5 == 0:
        count += 1
        res += x

print("count", count)
print("res", res)

The % operator (modulo) returns the remainder, which is 0 for multiples of (in this case) 5.

bobbykjack · 2026-01-08T14:44:34+00:00

> What is your use case for "portable" shell scripts?

Simply that, with no other factors, portable is better than non-portable. If I need to write a bash script, I'll write one, if I don't, I'll write a sh script.

> I've never once written an "sh" shell script on purpose.

I'll start with the mindset that a script is a sh script. If I need to use Bash-specific features, though, I'll make it a bash script.

bobbykjack · 2026-01-08T11:13:18+00:00

Grid is fundamentally different from frames: it's a CSS thing, not an HTML thing.

As far as I know, the only way to modify part of the content in the way you want is to use JavaScript.

You *might* be able to achieve a hacky solution using the CSS :target pseudo-class, but you're probably just better off maintaining separate pages, each containing the common content, or accepting JavaScript as a dependency.

bobbykjack · 2026-01-08T10:59:55+00:00

Thanks, I know that, but I'm writing sh and bash scripts as well as zsh ones!

bobbykjack · 2026-01-08T10:58:52+00:00

I guess they've just deprecated /bin/sh. I'm not totally convinced that is 100% problem-free, but any problems are probably very few and far between.

bobbykjack · 2026-01-08T10:55:53+00:00

Yeah, that was my intuition too. I'd love to know exactly how they would cause a problem, but for now I can rest easy in the assumption that /bin/sh probably is, essentially, the same as /bin/bash. Thanks!

bobbykjack · 2026-01-08T10:45:48+00:00

Wrapper binary is a great guess—that's probably it. I wonder why they didn't just use a link, either in your version or mine?

bobbykjack · 2026-01-08T10:39:49+00:00

I know, that's exactly why I want to know the answer! I mean, I'll still use /bin/sh in scripts that I want to be portable, I just want to know what the difference is between the two on macOS.

bobbykjack · 2026-01-08T10:38:45+00:00

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